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John Nham
OpenAIResearch
Nham helped build AlphaGo, the landmark system that defeated a world champion at the game of Go. He later worked on making language models more factual and now develops systems that learn to reason through difficult problems.
Career & education
Current roleOpenAIAug 2025-presentResearch
OpenAIAug 2025-presentPreviously
Google DeepMind2024-Jul 2025Software Engineer, GenAI
Google DeepMind2024-Jul 2025Software Engineer, Google Research2016-2024
Software Engineer, Google+ Social Infrastructure2013-2016
Education
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.
citations32,201As of Jul 14, '26
Selected contributions
Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search
With David Silver, Aja Huang, Chris J. Maddison, Arthur Guez, Laurent Sifre, George van den Driessche, Julian Schrittwieser and others ·AlphaGo combined neural networks and search to beat a professional Go player.
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