Ilya Sutskever

Ilya Sutskever FRS (born 1985/86) is a Canadian computer scientist working in machine learning, who co-founded and serves as Chief Scientist of OpenAI.[4]

Ilya Sutskever

FRS
Born1985/86[1]
Gorky, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union[2][3]
CitizenshipCanadian
Alma mater
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics, computer science
InstitutionsUniversity of Toronto
ThesisTraining Recurrent Neural Networks (2013)
Doctoral advisorGeoffrey Hinton

He has made several major contributions to the field of deep learning. He is the co-inventor, with Alex Krizhevsky and Geoffrey Hinton, of AlexNet, a convolutional neural network.[5] Sutskever is also one of the many authors of the AlphaGo paper.

Career

Sutskever attended the Open University of Israel between 2000 and 2002.[6] In 2002, he moved with his family to Canada and transferred to the University of Toronto, where he then obtained his BSc (2005) in mathematics[6][7][3][8]and his MSc (2007)[7][9] and PhD (2012)[8][10] in computer science under the supervision of Geoffrey Hinton.

After graduation in 2012, Sutskever spent two months as a postdoc with Andrew Ng at Stanford University. He then returned to University of Toronto and joined Hinton's new research company DNNResearch, a spinoff of Hinton's research group. Four months later, in March 2013, Google acquired DNNResearch and hired Sutskever as a research scientist at Google Brain.[11]

At Google Brain, Sutskever worked with Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le to create the sequence-to-sequence learning algorithm.

In 2015, Sutskever was named in MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35.[12]

At the end of 2015 he left Google to become the director of newly founded OpenAI.[13]

Sutskever was the keynote speaker at NVIDIA NTECH 2018 and AI Frontiers Conference 2018.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2022.[14]

See also

References
  1. Simonite, Tom (18 August 2015). "Ilya Sutskever". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  2. "Heard It Through the AI | University of Toronto Magazine". University of Toronto Magazine. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  3. "Season 1 Ep. 22 Ilya Sutskever". The Robot Brains Podcast. 21 September 2021. Retrieved 14 August 2022 – via YouTube.
  4. Metz, Cade (19 April 2018). "A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1 Million, Even at a Nonprofit". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 October 2018.
  5. Krizhevsky, Alex; Sutskever, Ilya; Hinton, Geoffrey E. (24 May 2017). "ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks". Communications of the ACM. 60 (6): 84–90. doi:10.1145/3065386. ISSN 0001-0782. S2CID 195908774.
  6. "Neural networking". The Varsity. 25 October 2010. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  7. Johnston, Jessica Leigh (8 December 2010). "A Neural Network for a New Millennium". University of Toronto Magazine. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  8. Sutskever, Ilya. "Ilya Sutskever". LinkedIn. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  9. Sutskever, Ilya (2007). Nonlinear multilayered sequence models (Thesis). hdl:1807/119676.
  10. Multiple sources:
  11. McMillan, Robert (13 March 2013). "Google Hires Brains that Helped Supercharge Machine Learning". Wired. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  12. "35 Innovators Under 35: Ilya Sutskever".
  13. Multiple sources:
  14. "Ilya Sutskever". The Royal Society. Retrieved 12 May 2022.


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