Deep learning

Yann LeCun

French-American AI pioneer who invented convolutional neural networks

Born 1959

Yoshua Bengio

Canadian deep-learning pioneer and one of the “godfathers of AI”

Born 1964

Geoffrey Hinton

“Godfather of AI” and Nobel laureate who made neural networks work

Born 1947

Alex Krizhevsky

Creator of AlexNet, the network that launched the deep-learning boom

Jürgen Schmidhuber

German AI researcher whose lab co-invented the LSTM neural network

Born 1963

Ilya Sutskever

Deep-learning researcher who co-founded OpenAI and Safe Superintelligence

Born 1986

Ian Goodfellow

Inventor of generative adversarial networks (GANs)

Andrej Karpathy

AI researcher and educator who led Tesla’s Autopilot vision and co-founded OpenAI

Born 1986