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Daan Wierstra
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Wierstra was an early DeepMind research scientist and contributed to foundational work including DQN, DDPG, evolutionary optimization, and deep generative models. He briefly co-founded H Company in 2024.
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Background
Previously
2024-2024Co-founder & Chief Scientist, 
H Company
H Company2011-2024Research Scientist, 
Google DeepMind
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
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