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Friday, November 11, 2016
 
Oxford and Cambridge are losing AI researchers to DeepMind
Oxford and Cambridge are losing AI researchers to DeepMind
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Demis Hassabis, Mustafa Suleyman, and Shane Legg — have all studied or worked at either Oxford or Cambridge at some point [...] Oxford and Cambridge appear to be the most popular hiring grounds.

Matthew Grimes, for example, was a Cambridge postdoctoral research associate focusing on applying deep learning to vision from October 2013 to December 2015. He joined DeepMind in January 2016 as a research scientist.

Then there's Yutian Chen, who was a research associate at Cambridge from August 2013 to August 2015. [...] Andrew Ballard, meanwhile, was a postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge from 2012 to 2015. He left to join DeepMind in October 2015 as a researcher.

Elsewhere, Irina Higgins left her role as a machine learning tutor at Oxford in April 2015 before joining DeepMind as a research scientist in June of the same year. Higgins also completed a PhD in computational neuroscience and artificial intelligence at Oxford before leaving to join DeepMind.
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Edward Grefenstette, Nando de Freitas, and Karl Hermann — the cofounders of Oxford spinout Dark Blue Labs — have all left their research positions at Oxford and joined DeepMind, which makes sense, given their startup was acquired by DeepMind.

DeepMind has also hired Martin Szummer, who was once a senior researcher at Cambridge. He left the university to focus on his startup, VocalIQ, which was acquired by Apple in 2014.
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http://www.businessinsider.com/oxbridge-ai-researchers-to-deepmind-2016-11
http://www.businessinsider.com/oxbridge-ai-researchers-to-deepmind-2016-11

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