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Brian Sheppard holds a BA in mathematics from [[Harvard University]] in 1984, and a Ph.D. from [[Maastricht University]] under supervision of [[Jaap van den Herik]] and [[Jonathan Schaeffer]] in 2002 <ref>[[Brian Sheppard]] ('''2002'''). ''Towards Perfect Play of Scrabble''. Ph.D. thesis, [[Maastricht University]]</ref>.
His Ph.D. thesis ''Towards Perfect Play of Scrabble'' received the [[ChessBase]] [[ChessBase#BestPublicationAward|Best-Publication Award]].
Brian Sheppard started writing his first chess program in 1986, which has taken took him 9 years and 3 complete [[Move Generation|move generators]] to make a chess engine with championship-caliber speed <ref>[[Brian Sheppard]] ('''1996'''). ''A Professional Programmer''. [[Computer Chess Reports]], Vol. 5, No. 3+4, pp. 117</ref>.
More recently, he contributes to the [[Stockfish]] project <ref>[https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/blob/master/AUTHORS Stockfish/AUTHORS]</ref>.
