Alex Hirsch

Also known as Alexander Robert Hirsch, Alexander Hirsch

American voice actor, animator, writer, storyboard artist, and producer

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Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,733x
SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,745x
ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks
· 2017 · cited 31,398x
Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning

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Alexander Hirsch (born June 18, 1985) is an American animator, director, writer, producer, and voice actor. He created the Disney Channel and Disney XD animated series Gravity Falls, and voiced its characters Grunkle Stan, Soos Ramirez, and Bill Cipher, among others. The show has won several BAFTA and Annie Awards.

In 2016, Hirsch co-authored Gravity Falls: Journal 3 which debuted as a No. 1 New York Times Best Seller and remained on The New York Times Best Seller list for forty-seven weeks. In 2018, Hirsch wrote Gravity Falls: Lost Legends which also appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list. In 2024, Hirsch wrote The Book of Bill, which appeared on the Amazon and New York Times Best Seller's list.