Demis Hassabis - Wikipedia

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 British AI researcher (born 1976) 
 

 Sir Demis Hassabis CBE   FRS   FREng   FRSA Hassabis in 2024 Born ( 1976-07-27 ) 27 July 1976 (age 49) 
 London , England , UK Alma mater University of Cambridge ( MA ) [ 3 ] 
 University College London ( PhD )
 Known for 
 DeepMind 

 AlphaGo 

 AlphaFold 
 
 Spouse Teresa Niccoli Awards 
 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (2023)

 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2023)

 Canada Gairdner International Award (2023)

 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2024)
 
 Scientific career Fields 
 Neuroscience 

 Computer science 

 Artificial intelligence 
 
 Institutions 
 University College London (2009–2012) [ 1 ] 

 DeepMind (2010–present)

 Isomorphic Labs (2021–present)
 
 Thesis Neural Processes Underpinning Episodic Memory   (2009) Doctoral advisor Eleanor Maguire [ 2 ] 
 Chess career Country England Title Candidate Master Years active 1988–2019 [ 4 ] FIDE   rating 2220 (March 2019) Peak rating 2300 (January 1990) [ 5 ] 
 
 
 Sir Demis Hassabis (born 27 July 1976) [ 6 ] is a British artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and entrepreneur. He is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Google DeepMind [ 7 ] and Isomorphic Labs , [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] and a UK Government AI Adviser. [ 11 ] In 2024, Hassabis and John M. Jumper were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their AI research contributions for protein structure prediction . [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 1 ] 

 Hassabis is a Fellow of the Royal Society and has won awards for his research efforts, including the Breakthrough Prize , the Canada Gairdner International Award and the Lasker Award . He was appointed a CBE in 2017, and knighted in 2024 for his work on AI. [ 14 ] He was also listed among the Time 100 most influential people in the world in 2017 and 2025, and was one of the "Architects of AI" collectively chosen as Time 's 2025 Person of the Year .

 
 Early life and education

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 Hassabis was born to Costas and Angela Hassabis. [ 15 ] His father is a Greek Cypriot [ 16 ] and his mother is a Chinese Singaporean . [ 17 ] Demis grew up in North London . [ 18 ] [ 19 ] In his early career he was a video game AI programmer and designer and an expert board games player. [ 18 ] [ 20 ] [ 21 ] A child prodigy in chess from the age of four, [ 22 ] [ 23 ] Hassabis reached master standard at the age of 13 with an Elo rating of 2300 and captained many of the England junior chess teams. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] He represented the University of Cambridge i

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