Aja Huang (Chinese:黃士傑;pinyin:Huáng Shìjié;Wade–Giles:Huang Shih-chieh; born 1978) is a Taiwanese computer scientist and expert onartificial intelligence. He works forDeepMind and was a member of theAlphaGo project.

Born in 1978,^[1] Huang received a bachelor's degree fromNational Chiao Tung University in 2001, a master's degree fromNational Taiwan Normal University in 2003, and a Ph.D degree from National Taiwan Normal University in 2011.^[2] One of his doctoral supervisors wasRémi Coulom.^[3][4] He began to developcomputer Go program Erica in 2004,^{[citation needed]} which became the champion in the 2010Computer Olympiad.^[2]

Huang joined DeepMind in 2012 and became a member of AlphaGo project in 2014.^[2][3] He is one of the first authors of DeepMind's paper onAlphaGo Fan in 2016^[5] and a major author of the paper onAlphaGo Zero in 2017.^[6] During the 2016 matchAlphaGo v. Lee Sedol and the 2017Future of Go Summit, Huang placed stones on the Go board for AlphaGo.^[1][7]

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• National Chiao Tung University alumni
• National Taiwan Normal University alumni
• DeepMind people

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