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a Taiwanese research scientist at [[Google]] [[DeepMind]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_ranks_and_ratings 6-dan] [[Go]] player, co-author of [[AlphaGo]] <ref>[[CG 2016#Keynote|Keynote Lecture CG 2016 Conference by Aja Huang]]</ref>, and computer scientist with a Ph.D. in 2011 on ''New Heuristics for Monte Carlo Tree Search Applied to the Game of Go'' from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Taiwan_Normal_University National Taiwan Normal University]. Aja Huang is author of the Go playing program [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=101 AjaGo], and supported by his supervisor [[Rémi Coulom]], author of the world class Go program [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=530 Erica], which won the Gold medal at the [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/tournament.php?id=216 15th Computer Olympiad] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanazawa,_Ishikawa Kanazawa], 2010. He is further member of the team in developing the [[Chinese Chess]] program [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=113 Elephant], and co-author of the [[Connect6]] program [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=521 NTNU C6] <ref>[https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=83 Shih-Chieh Huang's ICGA Tournaments]</ref>.
Aja Huang was postdoc at [[University of Alberta]], researching on [[Monte-Carlo Tree Search]], and working with [[Martin Müller]] on the Go playing programs ''Erica'' and [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=535 Fuego], as well with [[Ryan Hayward]] on the [[Hex]] playing program [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=555 [Ryan Hayward#MoHex|MoHex]] <ref>[[Shih-Chieh Huang]] ('''2011'''). ''New Heuristics for Monte Carlo Tree Search Applied to the Game of Go''. Ph.D. thesis, Appendix II, 2011 Super Computer Go: Shih-Chieh Huang's Erica, Introduction by [http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/362902.Peter_Shotwell Peter Shotwell], [http://www.usgo.org/resources/downloads/Supercomputer%20Go%20Appendix%20Two.pdf pdf]</ref>.
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