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Researcher · Academic · Founder · Executive
David Budden
PingYouFounder and CEO
Budden helped build Acme, an open-source framework that made it easier for researchers to develop and compare systems that learn through trial and error. His work also addressed how to train such systems reliably across many computers.
Career & education
Current role
Founder and CEO
Previously
MIT
Google DeepMind
University of MelbourneWork 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.
citations15,659As of Jun 15, '26
citations+1,125Since last snapshot, Aug 25, '25
Selected contributions
Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning
With Oriol Vinyals, Igor Babuschkin, Wojciech Czarnecki, Michaël Mathieu, Andrew Dudzik, Junyoung Chung, David H. Choi and others ·AlphaStar reached Grandmaster level in StarCraft II through competitive AI training.
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Reviewed August 24, 2026 · Checked for accuracy and new information.