Aja Huang (; born 1978) is a Taiwanese computer scientist and expert on

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...

. He works for

DeepMind DeepMind Technologies Limited, trading as Google DeepMind or simply DeepMind, is a British–American artificial intelligence research laboratory which serves as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Founded in the UK in 2010, it was acquired by Go ...

and was a member of the

AlphaGo AlphaGo is a computer program that plays the board game Go. It was developed by the London-based DeepMind Technologies, an acquired subsidiary of Google. Subsequent versions of AlphaGo became increasingly powerful, including a version that c ...

project. Born in 1978, Huang received a bachelor's degree from

National Chiao Tung University National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) was a public research university in Hsinchu, Taiwan. Established in 1896 as Nanyang Public School by an imperial edict of the Guangxu Emperor, it was one of China's leading universities. After the Chinese ...

in 2001, a master's degree from

National Taiwan Normal University National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) is a National university, national comprehensive university in Taipei and New Taipei City, Taiwan. The university enrolls approximately 17,000 students each year. Approximately 1,600 students are Intern ...

in 2003, and a Ph.D degree from National Taiwan Normal University in 2011. One of his doctoral supervisors was

Rémi Coulom Rémi Coulom (born 1974) is a French computer scientist, once an assistant professor of computer science at the Lille 3 University, and the developer of Crazy Stone, a computer Go program. In 2006, Rémi Coulom described the application of the M ...

. He began to develop

computer Go Computer Go is the field of artificial intelligence (AI) dedicated to creating a computer program that plays the traditional board game Go. The field is sharply divided into two eras. Before 2015, the programs of the era were weak. The best ...

program Erica in 2004, which became the champion in the 2010

Computer Olympiad The Computer Olympiad is a multi-games event in which computer programs compete against each other. For many games, the Computer Olympiads are an opportunity to claim the "world's best computer player" title. First contested in 1989, the major ...

. Huang joined DeepMind in 2012 and became a member of AlphaGo project in 2014. He is one of the first authors of DeepMind's paper on AlphaGo Fan in 2016 and a major author of the paper on

AlphaGo Zero AlphaGo Zero is a version of DeepMind's Go software AlphaGo. AlphaGo's team published an article in ''Nature'' in October 2017 introducing AlphaGo Zero, a version created without using data from human games, and stronger than any previous versio ...

in 2017. During the 2016 match AlphaGo v. Lee Sedol and the 2017 Future of Go Summit, Huang placed stones on the Go board for AlphaGo.

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