Technische Universität Berlin
Imperial College London
University of Hamburg
David SilverProfessor · UCLResearcher↗
Researcher · Academic · Founder · Executive
Thore Graepel
Metis ReasoningCEO & Co-Founder
UCLChair of Machine Learning
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.
Career & education
Current rolesMetis ReasoningAug 2026-presentCEO & Co-FounderUCL2013-presentChair of Machine Learning
Metis ReasoningAug 2026-presentUCL2013-presentPreviously
Google DeepMind2025-Sep 2026Distinguished Research Scientist
Altos Labs2021-2025Global Head of Computational Science, AI and Machine LearningGoogle DeepMind2015-2022Research Lead
Microsoft Research2003-2015Principal Researcher
Google DeepMind2025-Sep 2026Altos Labs2021-2025Google DeepMind2015-2022Microsoft Research2003-2015Work 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.
citations89,102As of Oct 20, '26
citations+3,245Since last snapshot, Jul 12, '26
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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.
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.
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