Aja Huang (Chinese: 黃士傑; pinyin: Huáng Shìjié; Wade–Giles: Huang Shih-chieh; born 1978) is a Taiwanese computer scientist and expert on artificial intelligence. He works for DeepMind and was a member of the AlphaGo project.
Born in 1978,[1] Huang received a bachelor's degree from National Chiao Tung University in 2001, a master's degree from National Taiwan Normal University in 2003, and a Ph.D degree from National Taiwan Normal University in 2011.[2] One of his doctoral supervisors was Rémi Coulom.[3][4] He began to develop computer Go program Erica in 2004,[citation needed] which became the champion in the 2010 Computer 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 on AlphaGo Fan in 2016[5] and a major author of the paper on AlphaGo Zero in 2017.[6] During the 2016 match AlphaGo v. Lee Sedol and the 2017 Future of Go Summit, Huang placed stones on the Go board for AlphaGo.[1][7]