École Polytechnique
Gautier CloixCEO · H CompanyExecutive↗
Researcher · Founder · Executive
Laurent Sifre
Career & education
Current role
H Company2024-presentCo-founder and CTO
H Company2024-presentPreviously
Google DeepMind2014-2024Principal Scientist
Google DeepMind2014-2024Education
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.
citations104,671As of Oct 19, '26
citations+5,416Since last snapshot, Aug 1, '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, George van den Driessche, Julian Schrittwieser, Ioannis Antonoglou and others ·AlphaGo combined neural networks and search to beat a professional Go player.
Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge
With David Silver, Julian Schrittwieser, Karén Simonyan, Ioannis Antonoglou, Aja Huang, Arthur Guez, Thomas Hubert and others ·AlphaGo Zero learned Go through self-play without examples of human games.
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.
References
- Mastering the Game of Go with Deep Neural Networks and Tree Searchpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The original AlphaGo paper credits Sifre as a co-author and describes how the system combined learned move selection with search.
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