Queen Mary University of London
University of Cambridge
Louis KirschCo-founder and Chief Superintelligence Officer · InherentFounder↗
Founder · Executive · Researcher · Academic
Edward Hughes
InherentCo-founder and Chief Scientist
Hughes co-led Google DeepMind's AI Scientist team and wrote the final implementation of Genie 1, which learned to turn images into interactive virtual environments. He also contributed to AlphaProof and research on cooperation between people and machines, and now co-founded Inherent.
Career & education
Current roleInherent2025-presentCo-founder and Chief Scientist
Inherent2025-presentPreviously
Google DeepMind2017-2025Staff Research Scientist
Google DeepMind2017-2025Work 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.
citations8,033As of Oct 22, '26
citations+1,106Since last snapshot, Jul 12, '26
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Selected contributions
Genie: Generative Interactive Environments
With Jake Bruce, Michael D Dennis, Ashley Edwards, Jack Parker-Holder, Yuge Shi, Matthew Lai, Aditi Mavalankar and others ·Genie learns from videos to turn an image into a controllable virtual world.
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