
Nicolas HeessResearcher
Google DeepMind
Director of Robotics, Research Scientist
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Researcher
Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
Lanctot develops methods for agents that learn in competitive and cooperative games. He helped create AlphaGo and founded OpenSpiel, an open framework that lets researchers compare reinforcement-learning, planning and game-theoretic algorithms across many kinds of games.
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Last editorial review: August 9, 2026