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Thore Graepel
Chair of Machine Learning at UCL
Graepel helped create AlphaGo and co-authored AlphaGo Zero, AlphaZero, and MuZero—systems that showed how an AI could learn difficult games through practice and planning rather than human examples. He also created widely used methods for matchmaking and online advertising.
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Current role
Chair of Machine Learning 2013-presentUCL
UCLPreviously
2025-Sep 2026Distinguished Research Scientist, 
Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind2021-2025Global Head of Computational Science, AI and Machine Learning, 
Altos Labs
Altos Labs2015-2022Research Lead, Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind2003-2015Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
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