Alex Krizhevsky is a Ukrainian-born Canadian
computer scientist
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Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus ( ...
most noted for his work on
artificial neural networks and
deep learning. Shortly after having won the
ImageNet challenge in 2012 with
AlexNet
AlexNet is the name of a convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture, designed by Alex Krizhevsky in collaboration with Ilya Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton, who was Krizhevsky's Ph.D. advisor.
AlexNet competed in the ImageNet Large Scale Vis ...
, he and his colleagues sold their startup, DNN Research Inc., to
Google
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. Krizhevsky left Google in September 2017 after losing interest in the work, to work at the company Dessa in support of new deep-learning techniques. Many of his numerous papers on
machine learning
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Machine ...
and
computer vision
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are frequently cited by other researchers.
He is the creator of the
CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100 datasets.
References
External links
Alex Krizhevsky's home page
Living people
Computer scientists
Artificial intelligence researchers
Computer vision researchers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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