highlighted research alphago dqn publications latest research news differentiable neural computers applied deepmind health streams deepmind for google latest applied news announcing the partnership on ai to benefit people & society careers home news & blog about us press terms and conditions privacy policy twitter youtube googleplus solve intelligence . use it to make the world a better place . two nature front covers . over 100 peer reviewed papers . an amazing team of scientists . applying our research for real world impact in health science energy and more . deep science meets start up energy and focus . committed to ai that benefits the many not just the few . milestones announcing deepmind health 24 february 2016 announcing deepmind health alphago defeats lee sedol in the game of go 15 march 2016 alphago defeats lee sedol in the game of go best paper award at iclr 2 may 2016 best paper award at iclr 2 best paper awards at icml 20 june 2016 2 best paper awards at icml cannes lions innovation grand prix award 22 june 2016 cannes lions innovation grand prix award latest news view the blog differentiable neural computers in a study in nature we introduce a form of memory augmented neural network called a differentiable neural computer and show that it can learn to use its memory to answer questions about complex structured data including artificially generated stories family trees and even a map of the london underground . we also show that it can solve a block puzzle game using reinforcement learning . alexander graves greg wayne 12 october 2016 differentiable neural computers announcing the partnership on ai to benefit people & society 28 september 2016 announcing the partnership on ai to benefit people & society wavenet a generative model for raw audio 8 september 2016 wavenet a generative model for raw audio applying machine learning to radiotherapy planning for head & neck cancer 30 august 2016 applying machine learning to radiotherapy planning for head & neck cancer view the blog working at deepmind job opportunities our world class team consists of many renowned experts in their fields . job opportunities meet some of the team irina higgins research scientist irina joined deepmind s neuroscience team in 2015 following a phd at oxford university . her work takes inspiration from the way that babies learn from the world around them using unsupervised interactions with the environment copying others and testing new hypotheses . by developing ai methods that can do this she hopes to create far more capable resilient algorithms that can adapt to new challenges and perform a larger number of tasks . she joined deepmind as it gave her a huge amount of freedom to work on the ideas she is passionate about in an inspirational incredible environment a heaven for ai geeks . shakir mohamed senior research scientist shakir grew up in johannesburg south africa and initially pursued a degree in electrical and information engineering before becoming intrigued by the principles of learning systems and moving onto graduate study at cambridge university and the canadian institute for advanced research cifar exploring neural computation and adaptive perception . he then joined deepmind as a research scientist exploring the fundamentals of imagination reasoning and future thinking without the need for external signals . he loves working at deepmind because of its unique environment that embraces and encourages different approaches to machine learning and relishes the opportunity to regularly think about the ways in which machine learning and ai can be used to truly overcome the challenges facing humanity . raia hadsell senior research scientist raia is a senior research scientist working on deep learning at deepmind with a particular focus on solving robotics and navigation using deep neural networks . she joined deepmind following positions at carnegie mellon and sri international as she saw the combination of research into games neuroscience deep learning and reinforcement learning as a unique proposition that could lead to fundamental breakthroughs in ai . she says that one of her favourite moments at deepmind was watching the livestream of lee sedol playing alphago at 4am surrounded by the rest of the team despite the difference in timezone follow twitter youtube googleplus research research applied applied news & blog news & blog about us about us careers careers press terms and conditions privacy policy alphabet inc 2016 deepmind technologies limited deepmind.com uses cookies to help give you the best possible user experience . find out more close