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Dharshan Kumaran ^[1]

Dharshan Kumaran, (born 1975)
a British chess grandmaster, neuroscientist, and senior research scientist at Google DeepMind, involved in the AlphaZero project mastering the games of Go, chess and Shogi. He holds a Ph.D. on the fundamental mechanisms operating within the human hippocampus from the University College London (UCL) under supervision of Eleanor Maguire, and he is still affiliated with UCL as honorary research associate at their Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Dharshan Kumaran's chess career started early, he became Under-12 World Youth Champion 1986 in San Juan, and Under-16 World Youth Champion 1991 in Guarapuava ^[2] and British Under-21 and Commonwealth U-21 Champion in 1993 ^[3]. He became international master in 1993, and grandmaster in 1997 ^[4]. With a rating of 2505, he is no longer active in official FIDE tournaments since 1998 ^[5], focusing on his academic career.

Selected Publications

Dharshan Kumaran, Eleanor A. Maguire (2005). The Human Hippocampus: Cognitive Maps or Relational Memory? Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 25, No. 31
Dharshan Kumaran, Eleanor A. Maguire (2007). Which computational mechanisms operate in the hippocampus during novelty detection? Hippocampus, Vol. 17, No. 9, DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20326
Dharshan Kumaran (2008). What are the Fundamental Mechanisms Operating within the Human Hippocampus. Ph.D. thesis, University College London, supervisor: Eleanor A. Maguire
Dharshan Kumaran (2008). Short-Term Memory and The Human Hippocampus. Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 28, No. 15

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 * [[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]]
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+* [[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]] ('''2018'''). ''[http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6419/1140 A general reinforcement learning algorithm that masters chess, shogi, and Go through self-play]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_(journal) Science], Vol. 362, No. 6419 <ref>[https://deepmind.com/blog/alphazero-shedding-new-light-grand-games-chess-shogi-and-go/ AlphaZero: Shedding new light on the grand games of chess, shogi and Go] by [[David Silver]], [[Thomas Hubert]], [[Julian Schrittwieser]] and [[Demis Hassabis]], [[DeepMind]], December 03, 2018</ref>
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