The DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning
Endowed through a benefection from DeepMind AI
About DeepMind
- DeepMind was co-founded by Queens' alum and Honorary Fellow Demis Hassabis CBE (1994) in 2010
- Their mission is to be pioneers in the field of AI, in service of society's needs and expectations
- In 2014, DeepMind was acquired by Google
- The company's AlphaGo program was the first to beat a professional Go player in a first for artificial intelligence
Queens' students visited DeepMind in June 2015
Queens' students visited DeepMind in June 2015
The DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning
The DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning is based at the Department of Computer Science & Technology, but with a Professorial Fellowship at Queens', supported by Dr Demis Hassabis (1994, Hon Fellow), co-founder of DeepMind. The post was generously funded by DeepMind to further research into artificial intelligence and its social applications.
"There's so much expertise at Cambridge, in all aspects of systems and data: that's why I'm so excited about joining. AI and machine learning have the potential to reshape almost every aspect of our lives, but we desperately need more machine learning specialists, or else the promise of AI will not be realised."
The DeepMind Professor
Professor Neil Lawrence
- BEng (Southampton), PhD (Cantab)
- Formerly Director of Machine Learning for Amazon in Cambridge and a senior lecturer in machine learning and computational biology at the University of Sheffield
- Currently Professorial Fellow at Queens' and Senior AI Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute
Andrew is Professor of Computer Security in the Department of Computer Science and Technology. His research work focuses on probabilistic models with applications in computational biology, personalised health and developing economies, and he also co-hosts the Talking Machines podcast.
Professor Neil Lawrence, DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning
Professor Neil Lawrence, DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning
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