Dr. Demis Hassabis

BIOGRAPHY Co-founder & CEO at Deepmind. Demis Hassabis is a child chess prodigy from the age of 4. He designed and programmed the multi-million selling, award-winning game Theme Park at the age of 17. Following graduation from Cambridge University (1994-1997), with a Double First in Computer Science he founded the pioneering videogames company Elixir Studios […]

Dr. John Jumper

BIOGRAPHY Senior Research Scientist at Deepmind In 2007, John Jumper received his degree of Bachelor of Science in Physics and Mathematics at Vanderbilt University, USA. He has studied adaptive time-step methods for quantum Monte Carlo at University of Cambridge in 2008. After that, he worked on molecular dynamics simulations of proteins and supercooled liquids at […]

Professor Omar M. Yaghi

BIOGRAPHY Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California-Berkeley, College of Chemistry, USA Omar M. Yaghi received his B.S. from State University of New York at Albany (1985) and Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1990). He was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University (1990-92). He started his […]