Koray Kavukcuoglu FREng

VP of Research & Technology, DeepMind 

Koray Kavukcuoglu is recognised for his contribution and leadership in the domains of artificial intelligence and more specifically in deep learning, unsupervised learning, generative models, deep reinforcement learning, and applying artificial intelligence to real-world problems, while positively contributing to the engineering, scientific and ethical discourse and processes of a growing artificial intelligence research community. Koray demonstrates a strong mix of deep technical knowledge, research leadership and the managerial skills needed to run a large and very successful research organisation. He has more than 100,000 citations and a stellar international reputation.