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Dharshan Kumaran
Google DeepMindStaff Scientist
Kumaran connects neuroscience and cognitive science with AI. He co-authored the foundational DQN work on human-level Atari control and later work on meta-reinforcement learning and memory-based learning systems.
Career & education
Current roleGoogle DeepMind2014-presentStaff Scientist
Google DeepMind2014-presentWork 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.
citations92,468As of Oct 13, '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, Alex Graves and others ·Presented DQN, learning to play 49 Atari games from screen images and game scores.
A general reinforcement learning algorithm that masters chess, shogi, and Go through self-play
With David Silver, Thomas Hubert, Julian Schrittwieser, Ioannis Antonoglou, Matthew Lai, Arthur Guez, Marc Lanctot and others ·AlphaZero learned chess, shogi and Go through self-play rather than human examples.
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