Aja Huang ( Chinese: 黃士傑; pinyin: Huáng Shìjié; Wade–Giles: Huang Shih-chieh; born 1978) is a Taiwanese computer scientist and expert on artificial intelligence. He works for DeepMind and was a member of the AlphaGo project.
Born in 1978, [1] Huang received a bachelor's degree from National Chiao Tung University in 2001, a master's degree from National Taiwan Normal University in 2003, and a Ph.D degree from National Taiwan Normal University in 2011. [2] One of his doctoral supervisors was Rémi Coulom. [3] [4] He began to develop computer Go program Erica in 2004,[ citation needed] which became the champion in the 2010 Computer Olympiad. [2]
Huang joined DeepMind in 2012 and became a member of AlphaGo project in 2014. [2] [3] He is one of the first authors of DeepMind's paper on AlphaGo Fan in 2016 [5] and a major author of the paper on AlphaGo Zero in 2017. [6] During the 2016 match AlphaGo v. Lee Sedol and the 2017 Future of Go Summit, Huang placed stones on the Go board for AlphaGo. [1] [7]
Aja Huang ( Chinese: 黃士傑; pinyin: Huáng Shìjié; Wade–Giles: Huang Shih-chieh; born 1978) is a Taiwanese computer scientist and expert on artificial intelligence. He works for DeepMind and was a member of the AlphaGo project.
Born in 1978, [1] Huang received a bachelor's degree from National Chiao Tung University in 2001, a master's degree from National Taiwan Normal University in 2003, and a Ph.D degree from National Taiwan Normal University in 2011. [2] One of his doctoral supervisors was Rémi Coulom. [3] [4] He began to develop computer Go program Erica in 2004,[ citation needed] which became the champion in the 2010 Computer Olympiad. [2]
Huang joined DeepMind in 2012 and became a member of AlphaGo project in 2014. [2] [3] He is one of the first authors of DeepMind's paper on AlphaGo Fan in 2016 [5] and a major author of the paper on AlphaGo Zero in 2017. [6] During the 2016 match AlphaGo v. Lee Sedol and the 2017 Future of Go Summit, Huang placed stones on the Go board for AlphaGo. [1] [7]