Dharshan Kumaran (born 7 June 1975) is an English
chess
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grandmaster who has retired from ranked tournaments and is a neuroscience researcher collaborating with leaders in that field.
He won the
World Under-12 Championship in 1986, won the
World Under-16 Championship in 1991. He finished 3rd equal in the
World Under-20 Championship in 1994 and competed in the highest level competitions as recently as 2001.
He works as a
neuroscientist
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, specialising in research at
DeepMind
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, an inter-body collaboration led by
University College London
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.
[Dharshan Kumaran Google Scholar Profile]
/ref> He has authored (mostly co-authored) 75 articles in this field as noted in Google scholar's library of papers in neuroscience (between 2003 and 2022).[ The most cited of these, namely by more than 20,000 articles, is '"Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning" which he co-authored in 2015 with others including V Mnih, K Kavukcuoglu, D Silver, AA Rusu, J Veness and MG Bellemare, a 4-page article in '']Nature
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'' in 2015.[
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1975 births
Living people
Chess Grandmasters
English chess players
British neuroscientists