25,161
edits
Changes
Created page with "'''Home * People * Dharshan Kumaran''' FILE:DharshanKumaran.JPG|border|right|thumb|200px|link=https://sites.google.com/site/dharshankumaran1/| Dharshan K..."
'''[[Main Page|Home]] * [[People]] * Dharshan Kumaran'''
[[FILE:DharshanKumaran.JPG|border|right|thumb|200px|link=https://sites.google.com/site/dharshankumaran1/| Dharshan Kumaran <ref>[https://sites.google.com/site/dharshankumaran1/ dharshan kumaran]</ref> ]]
'''Dharshan Kumaran''', (born 1975)<br/>
a British [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmaster_%28chess%29 chess grandmaster], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscientist neuroscientist], and senior research scientist at [[Google]] [[DeepMind]], involved in the [[AlphaZero]] project mastering the games of [[Go]], [[Chess|chess]] and [[Shogi]]. He holds a Ph.D. on the fundamental mechanisms operating within the human [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocampus hippocampus] from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_College_London University College London] (UCL) under supervision of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Maguire Eleanor Maguire], and he is still affiliated with UCL as honorary research associate at their [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCL_Neuroscience Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience].
Dharshan Kumaran's chess career started early, he became [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Youth_Chess_Championship#Under-12_winners Under-12] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Youth_Chess_Championship World Youth Champion] 1986 in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Juan,_Puerto_Rico San Juan], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Youth_Chess_Championship#Under-16 Under-16 World Youth Champion] 1991 in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guarapuava Guarapuava] <ref>[http://www.bidmonfa.com/kumaran_dharshan.htm Bidmonfa - Dharshan Kumaran]</ref> and British Under-21 and Commonwealth U-21 Champion in 1993 <ref>[https://sites.google.com/site/dharshankumaran1/other Chess - dharshan kumaran]</ref>. He became [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE_titles#International_Master_(IM) international master] in 1993, and grandmaster in 1997 <ref>[https://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=401978 Kumaran, Dharshan FIDE Chess Profile]</ref>. With a rating of 2505, he is no longer active in official [[FIDE]] tournaments since 1998 <ref>[https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharshan_Kumaran Dharshan Kumaran – Wikipedia.pl] (Polish)</ref>, focusing on his academic career.
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[[hhttps://sites.google.com/site/dharshankumaran1/publications|Publications - dharshan kumaran]]</ref> <ref>[http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/k/Kumaran:Dharshan dblp: Dharshan Kumaran]</ref>
==2005 ...==
* [[Dharshan Kumaran]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Maguire Eleanor A. Maguire] ('''2005'''). ''[http://www.jneurosci.org/content/25/31/7254.short The Human Hippocampus: Cognitive Maps or Relational Memory]?'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Journal_of_Neuroscience Journal of Neuroscience], Vol. 25, No. 31
* [[Dharshan Kumaran]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Maguire Eleanor A. Maguire] ('''2007'''). ''Which computational mechanisms operate in the hippocampus during novelty detection?'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocampus_(journal) Hippocampus], Vol. 17, No. 9, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier DOI]: [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hipo.20326/abstract;jsessionid=B43250844CB301082E6E50B775993689.f04t02 10.1002/hipo.20326]
* [[Dharshan Kumaran]] ('''2008'''). ''What are the Fundamental Mechanisms Operating within the Human Hippocampus''. Ph.D. thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_College_London University College London], supervisor: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Maguire Eleanor A. Maguire]
* [[Dharshan Kumaran]] ('''2008'''). ''Short-Term Memory and The Human Hippocampus''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Journal_of_Neuroscience Journal of Neuroscience], Vol. 28, No. 15
==2010 ...==
* [[Dharshan Kumaran]], [[James L. McClelland]] ('''2010'''). ''Generalization through Recurrence: An Interactive Model of the Hippocampus''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_Neuroscience Society for Neuroscience]
* [[Dharshan Kumaran]], [[James L. McClelland]] ('''2012'''). ''[http://psycnet.apa.org/record/2012-17473-004 Generalization through the Recurrent Interaction of Episodic Memories: A Model of the Hippocampal System]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_Review Psychological Review], Vol. 119, No, 3
==2015 ...==
* [[Volodymyr Mnih]], [[Koray Kavukcuoglu]], [[David Silver]], [[Andrei A. Rusu]], [[Joel Veness]], [[Marc G. Bellemare]], [[Alex Graves]], [[Martin Riedmiller]], [[Andreas K. Fidjeland]], [[Georg Ostrovski]], [[Stig Petersen]], [[Charles Beattie]], [[Amir Sadik]], [[Ioannis Antonoglou]], [[Helen King]], [[Dharshan Kumaran]], [[Daan Wierstra]], [[Shane Legg]], [[Demis Hassabis]] ('''2015'''). ''[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v518/n7540/abs/nature14236.html Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_%28journal%29 Nature], Vol. 518
'''2016'''
* [[Jane X Wang]], [[Zeb Kurth-Nelson]], [[Dhruva Tirumala]], [[Hubert Soyer]], [[Joel Z Leibo]], [[Rémi Munos]], [[Charles Blundell]], [[Dharshan Kumaran]], [[Matt Botvinick]] ('''2016'''). ''Learning to reinforcement learn''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.05763 arXiv:1611.05763]
* [[James Kirkpatrick]], [[Razvan Pascanu]], [[Neil C. Rabinowitz]], [[Joel Veness]], [[Guillaume Desjardins]], [[Andrei A. Rusu]], [[Kieran Milan]], [[John Quan]], [[Tiago Ramalho]], [[Agnieszka Grabska-Barwinska]], [[Demis Hassabis]], [[Claudia Clopath]], [[Dharshan Kumaran]], [[Raia Hadsell]] ('''2016'''). ''Overcoming catastrophic forgetting in neural networks''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.00796 arXiv:1612.00796]
* [[Dharshan Kumaran]], [[Demis Hassabis]], [[James L. McClelland]] ('''2016'''). ''What learning systems do intelligent agents need? Complementary Learning Systems Theory Updated''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trends_in_Cognitive_Sciences Trends in Cognitive Sciences], Vol. 20, No. 7, [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-Nvsz4idhaeVEZYMEVaWkFjLVU/view pdf]
'''2017'''
* [[David Silver]], [[Thomas Hubert]], [[Julian Schrittwieser]], [[Ioannis Antonoglou]], [[Matthew Lai]], [[Arthur Guez]], [[Marc Lanctot]], [[Laurent Sifre]], [[Dharshan Kumaran]], [[Thore Graepel]], [[Timothy Lillicrap]], [[Karen Simonyan]], [[Demis Hassabis]] ('''2017'''). ''Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01815 arXiv:1712.01815] » [[AlphaZero]]
=External Links=
* [https://sites.google.com/site/dharshankumaran1/ dharshan kumaran]
* [https://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=401978 Kumaran, Dharshan FIDE Chess Profile]
* [https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharshan_Kumaran Dharshan Kumaran – Wikipedia.pl] (Polish)
* [http://www.chessgames.com/player/dharshan_kumaran.html The chess games of Dharshan Kumaran] from [http://www.chessgames.com/index.html Chessgames.com]
=References=
<references />
'''[[People|Up one level]]'''
[[FILE:DharshanKumaran.JPG|border|right|thumb|200px|link=https://sites.google.com/site/dharshankumaran1/| Dharshan Kumaran <ref>[https://sites.google.com/site/dharshankumaran1/ dharshan kumaran]</ref> ]]
'''Dharshan Kumaran''', (born 1975)<br/>
a British [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmaster_%28chess%29 chess grandmaster], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscientist neuroscientist], and senior research scientist at [[Google]] [[DeepMind]], involved in the [[AlphaZero]] project mastering the games of [[Go]], [[Chess|chess]] and [[Shogi]]. He holds a Ph.D. on the fundamental mechanisms operating within the human [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocampus hippocampus] from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_College_London University College London] (UCL) under supervision of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Maguire Eleanor Maguire], and he is still affiliated with UCL as honorary research associate at their [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCL_Neuroscience Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience].
Dharshan Kumaran's chess career started early, he became [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Youth_Chess_Championship#Under-12_winners Under-12] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Youth_Chess_Championship World Youth Champion] 1986 in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Juan,_Puerto_Rico San Juan], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Youth_Chess_Championship#Under-16 Under-16 World Youth Champion] 1991 in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guarapuava Guarapuava] <ref>[http://www.bidmonfa.com/kumaran_dharshan.htm Bidmonfa - Dharshan Kumaran]</ref> and British Under-21 and Commonwealth U-21 Champion in 1993 <ref>[https://sites.google.com/site/dharshankumaran1/other Chess - dharshan kumaran]</ref>. He became [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE_titles#International_Master_(IM) international master] in 1993, and grandmaster in 1997 <ref>[https://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=401978 Kumaran, Dharshan FIDE Chess Profile]</ref>. With a rating of 2505, he is no longer active in official [[FIDE]] tournaments since 1998 <ref>[https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharshan_Kumaran Dharshan Kumaran – Wikipedia.pl] (Polish)</ref>, focusing on his academic career.
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[[hhttps://sites.google.com/site/dharshankumaran1/publications|Publications - dharshan kumaran]]</ref> <ref>[http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/k/Kumaran:Dharshan dblp: Dharshan Kumaran]</ref>
==2005 ...==
* [[Dharshan Kumaran]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Maguire Eleanor A. Maguire] ('''2005'''). ''[http://www.jneurosci.org/content/25/31/7254.short The Human Hippocampus: Cognitive Maps or Relational Memory]?'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Journal_of_Neuroscience Journal of Neuroscience], Vol. 25, No. 31
* [[Dharshan Kumaran]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Maguire Eleanor A. Maguire] ('''2007'''). ''Which computational mechanisms operate in the hippocampus during novelty detection?'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocampus_(journal) Hippocampus], Vol. 17, No. 9, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier DOI]: [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hipo.20326/abstract;jsessionid=B43250844CB301082E6E50B775993689.f04t02 10.1002/hipo.20326]
* [[Dharshan Kumaran]] ('''2008'''). ''What are the Fundamental Mechanisms Operating within the Human Hippocampus''. Ph.D. thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_College_London University College London], supervisor: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Maguire Eleanor A. Maguire]
* [[Dharshan Kumaran]] ('''2008'''). ''Short-Term Memory and The Human Hippocampus''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Journal_of_Neuroscience Journal of Neuroscience], Vol. 28, No. 15
==2010 ...==
* [[Dharshan Kumaran]], [[James L. McClelland]] ('''2010'''). ''Generalization through Recurrence: An Interactive Model of the Hippocampus''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_Neuroscience Society for Neuroscience]
* [[Dharshan Kumaran]], [[James L. McClelland]] ('''2012'''). ''[http://psycnet.apa.org/record/2012-17473-004 Generalization through the Recurrent Interaction of Episodic Memories: A Model of the Hippocampal System]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_Review Psychological Review], Vol. 119, No, 3
==2015 ...==
* [[Volodymyr Mnih]], [[Koray Kavukcuoglu]], [[David Silver]], [[Andrei A. Rusu]], [[Joel Veness]], [[Marc G. Bellemare]], [[Alex Graves]], [[Martin Riedmiller]], [[Andreas K. Fidjeland]], [[Georg Ostrovski]], [[Stig Petersen]], [[Charles Beattie]], [[Amir Sadik]], [[Ioannis Antonoglou]], [[Helen King]], [[Dharshan Kumaran]], [[Daan Wierstra]], [[Shane Legg]], [[Demis Hassabis]] ('''2015'''). ''[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v518/n7540/abs/nature14236.html Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_%28journal%29 Nature], Vol. 518
'''2016'''
* [[Jane X Wang]], [[Zeb Kurth-Nelson]], [[Dhruva Tirumala]], [[Hubert Soyer]], [[Joel Z Leibo]], [[Rémi Munos]], [[Charles Blundell]], [[Dharshan Kumaran]], [[Matt Botvinick]] ('''2016'''). ''Learning to reinforcement learn''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.05763 arXiv:1611.05763]
* [[James Kirkpatrick]], [[Razvan Pascanu]], [[Neil C. Rabinowitz]], [[Joel Veness]], [[Guillaume Desjardins]], [[Andrei A. Rusu]], [[Kieran Milan]], [[John Quan]], [[Tiago Ramalho]], [[Agnieszka Grabska-Barwinska]], [[Demis Hassabis]], [[Claudia Clopath]], [[Dharshan Kumaran]], [[Raia Hadsell]] ('''2016'''). ''Overcoming catastrophic forgetting in neural networks''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.00796 arXiv:1612.00796]
* [[Dharshan Kumaran]], [[Demis Hassabis]], [[James L. McClelland]] ('''2016'''). ''What learning systems do intelligent agents need? Complementary Learning Systems Theory Updated''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trends_in_Cognitive_Sciences Trends in Cognitive Sciences], Vol. 20, No. 7, [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-Nvsz4idhaeVEZYMEVaWkFjLVU/view pdf]
'''2017'''
* [[David Silver]], [[Thomas Hubert]], [[Julian Schrittwieser]], [[Ioannis Antonoglou]], [[Matthew Lai]], [[Arthur Guez]], [[Marc Lanctot]], [[Laurent Sifre]], [[Dharshan Kumaran]], [[Thore Graepel]], [[Timothy Lillicrap]], [[Karen Simonyan]], [[Demis Hassabis]] ('''2017'''). ''Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01815 arXiv:1712.01815] » [[AlphaZero]]
=External Links=
* [https://sites.google.com/site/dharshankumaran1/ dharshan kumaran]
* [https://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=401978 Kumaran, Dharshan FIDE Chess Profile]
* [https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharshan_Kumaran Dharshan Kumaran – Wikipedia.pl] (Polish)
* [http://www.chessgames.com/player/dharshan_kumaran.html The chess games of Dharshan Kumaran] from [http://www.chessgames.com/index.html Chessgames.com]
=References=
<references />
'''[[People|Up one level]]'''
