Exploring the Role of Reinforcement Learning in Protein Folding and Design

David Silver is a principal research scientist at DeepMind and a professor at University College London. 

This interview was recorded at UMass Amherst during RLC 2024.   

References  

• Discovering Reinforcement Learning Algorithms, Oh et al  -- His keynote at RLC 2024 referred to more recent update to this work, yet to be published  
• Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm, Silver et al 2017 -- the AlphaZero algo was used   in his recent work on AlphaProof  
• AlphaProof on the DeepMind blog 
• AlphaFold on the DeepMind blog 
• Reinforcement Learning Conference 2024  
• David Silver on Google Scholar