Google DeepMind
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University of Edinburgh
Technical University of Munich
Bernardo P. de AlmeidaHead of Genomics AI Research · InstaDeepResearcher↗Both at InstaDeep
Researcher
Alex Graves
Graves pioneered sequence learning—teaching AI to understand information whose order matters, such as speech, handwriting and music. He created CTC, which made speech and handwriting recognition possible without every sound or stroke being manually matched to its correct character.
Career & education
Current role
InstaDeep2025-present
InstaDeep2025-presentPreviously
Research Scientist
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations193,064As of Nov 1, '26
citations+2,507Since last snapshot, Oct 1, '26
Selected contributions
Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
With Volodymyr Mnih, Koray Kavukcuoglu, David Silver, Andrei A. Rusu, Joel Veness, Marc G. Bellemare, Martin Riedmiller and others ·Presented DQN, learning to play 49 Atari games from screen images and game scores.
Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning
With Volodymyr Mnih, Koray Kavukcuoglu, David Silver, Ioannis Antonoglou, Daan Wierstra and Martin RiedmillerShowed a neural network could learn Atari games directly from screen pixels and rewards.
WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio
With Aäron van den Oord, Sander Dieleman, Heiga Zen, Karén Simonyan, Oriol Vinyals, Nal Kalchbrenner, Andrew Senior and others ·WaveNet generates natural-sounding speech directly as a sequence of audio samples.
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