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| ⚫ | '''Dharshan Kumaran''' (born 7 June 1975) is an English [[chess]] [[International Grandmaster|grandmaster]] who has retired from ranked tournaments and is a neuroscience researcher collaborating with leaders in that field.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=401978 |title=Kumaran, Dharshan FIDE Chess Profile |publisher=[[FIDE]] |date=17 December 2017}}</ref> He won the [[World Youth Chess Championship#Under-12|World Under-12 Championship]] in 1986, won the [[World Youth Chess Championship#Under-16|World Under-16 Championship]] in 1991. He finished 3rd equal in the [[World Junior Chess Championship#Details by year|World Under-20 Championship]] in 1994 and competed in the highest level competitions as recently as 2001. |
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He works as a [[neuroscience|neuroscientist]], specialising in research at [[DeepMind]], an inter-body collaboration led by [[University College London]].<ref name=gs>[https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=_jkvGEUAAAAJ&hl=en 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).<ref name=gs/> 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 (journal)|Nature]]'' in 2015.<ref name=gs/> |
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| ⚫ | '''Dharshan Kumaran''' (born 7 June 1975) is an English [[chess]] [[International Grandmaster|grandmaster]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=401978 |title=Kumaran, Dharshan FIDE Chess Profile |publisher=[[FIDE]] |date=17 December 2017}}</ref> He won the [[World Youth Chess Championship#Under-12|World Under-12 Championship]] in 1986, won the [[World Youth Chess Championship#Under-16|World Under-16 Championship]] in 1991 |
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Latest revision as of 18:23, 6 March 2024
| Dharshan Kumaran | |
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| Country | England |
| Born | 7 June 1975 |
| Title | Grandmaster (1997) |
| FIDE rating | 2505 (May 2024) |
| Peak rating | 2505 (January 1995) |
Dharshan Kumaran (born 7 June 1975) is an English chess grandmaster who has retired from ranked tournaments and is a neuroscience researcher collaborating with leaders in that field.[1] 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, specialising in research at DeepMind, an inter-body collaboration led by University College London.[2] 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).[2] 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 in 2015.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ "Kumaran, Dharshan FIDE Chess Profile". FIDE. 17 December 2017.
- ^ a b c Dharshan Kumaran Google Scholar Profile
External links[edit]
- Dharshan Kumaran player profile and games at Chessgames.com
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