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Ilya Sutskever
איליה סוצקבר
Ilya Sutskever (right) with Sam Altman at Tel Aviv University in 2023
Born
Илья Суцкевер

1985 or 1986 (age 37–38)[4]
Gorky, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union[5][6]
CitizenshipCanadian
Alma mater
Known forAlexNet
Co-founding OpenAI
Scientific career
FieldsMachine learning
Neural networks
Artificial intelligence
Deep learning[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of Toronto
Stanford University
Google Brain
OpenAI
ThesisTraining Recurrent Neural Networks (2013)
Doctoral advisorGeoffrey Hinton[2][3]
Websitewww.cs.toronto.edu/~ilya/ Edit this at Wikidata

Ilya Sutskever FRS (Hebrew: איליה סוצקבר; Russian: Илья Суцкевер; born 1985/86)[4] is a Russian-born Israeli-Canadian computer scientist working in machine learning,[1] who co-founded and serves as Chief Scientist of OpenAI.[7]

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.[8] Sutskever is also one of the many co-authors of the AlphaGo paper.[9]

Early life and education

Sutskever was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, then called "Gorky", at the time part of the Soviet Union, and at age 5 immigrated with his family to Israel.[10] He spent his formative years in Jerusalem.[11]

Sutskever attended the Open University of Israel between 2000 and 2002[12] before moving with his family to Canada and transferred to the University of Toronto, where he then obtained his BSc (2005) in mathematics[12][13][6][14]and his MSc[15][13] and PhD[3][16][17] in computer science under the supervision of Geoffrey Hinton.[2]

Career and research

Sutskever (second from right) at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2014

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.[18]

At Google Brain, Sutskever worked with Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Viet Le to create the sequence-to-sequence learning algorithm. He is also a co-inventor of AlexNet[19] and has worked on TensorFlow.[20]

At the end of 2015, he left Google to become the director of newly founded OpenAI.[21][22][23]

Awards and honours

References

  1. ^ a b Ilya Sutskever publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b Ilya Sutskever at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ a b Sutskever, Ilya (2013). Training Recurrent Neural Networks. utoronto.ca (PhD thesis). University of Toronto. hdl:1807/36012. OCLC 889910425. ProQuest 1501655550.
  4. ^ a b Simonite, Tom (18 August 2015). "Ilya Sutskever". technologyreview.com. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  5. ^ "Heard It Through the AI | University of Toronto Magazine". University of Toronto Magazine. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  6. ^ a b "Season 1 Ep. 22 Ilya Sutskever". The Robot Brains Podcast. 21 September 2021. Retrieved 14 August 2022 – via YouTube.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ Alex Krizhevsky; Ilya Sutskever; Geoffrey E. Hinton (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. Wikidata Q59445836.
  9. ^ David Silver; Aja Huang; Chris J. Maddison; et al. (27 January 2016). "Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search". Nature. 529 (7587): 484–489. doi:10.1038/NATURE16961. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 26819042. Wikidata Q28005460.
  10. ^ מן, יובל (18 November 2022). ""הבינה המלאכותית מהמדע הבדיוני תהפוך למציאות"". Ynet (in Hebrew). Retrieved 18 April 2023.
  11. ^ Ansari, Tasmia (7 March 2023). "The Brain That Supercharged ChatGPT, ImageNet and TF". Analytics India Magazine. Retrieved 14 March 2023.
  12. ^ a b "Neural networking". The Varsity. 25 October 2010. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  13. ^ a b Johnston, Jessica Leigh (8 December 2010). "A Neural Network for a New Millennium". University of Toronto Magazine. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  14. ^ Ilya Sutskever on LinkedIn Edit this at Wikidata
  15. ^ Sutskever, Ilya (2007). Nonlinear multilayered sequence models. utoronto.ca (MSc thesis). University of Toronto. hdl:1807/119676. OCLC 234120052.
  16. ^ "RAM Workshop". thespermwhale.com. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  17. ^ "Episode 85: A Conversation with Ilya Sutskever". Voices in AI. Gigaom. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  18. ^ McMillan, Robert (13 March 2013). "Google Hires Brains that Helped Supercharge Machine Learning". wired.com. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  19. ^ a b Anon (2022). "Ilya Sutskever". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
  20. ^ Martín Abadi; Ashish Agarwal; Paul Barham; et al. (16 March 2016), TensorFlow: Large-Scale Machine Learning on Heterogeneous Distributed Systems (PDF), arXiv:1603.04467, Wikidata Q29040034
  21. ^ "OpenAI Blog". 12 December 2015. Archived from the original on 6 October 2021. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
  22. ^ www.cs.toronto.edu/~ilya/ Edit this at Wikidata
  23. ^ Metz, Cade (27 April 2016). "Inside OpenAI, Elon Musk's Wild Plan to Set Artificial Intelligence Free". wire.com. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  24. ^ "35 Innovators Under 35: Ilya Sutskever". technologyreview.com.
  25. ^ Martin, Scott. "Reinforcement Learning 'Really Works' for AI Against Pro Gamers, OpenAI Trailblazer Says". Nvidia Blog. Nvidia. Retrieved 28 March 2023.