Andrej Karpathy | |
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Born | Andrej Karpathy 23 October 1986
Bratislava,
Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) |
Alma mater |
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Awards | Innovators Under 35 (2020) |
Scientific career | |
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Machine Learning Computer Vision Artificial intelligence [1] |
Institutions |
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Thesis | Connecting Images and Natural Language (2016) |
Doctoral advisor | Fei-Fei Li |
Website |
karpathy |
Andrej Karpathy (born 23 October 1986 [2]) is a Slovak-Canadian computer scientist who served as the director of artificial intelligence and Autopilot Vision at Tesla. He co-founded and formerly worked at OpenAI, [3] [4] [5] where he specialized in deep learning and computer vision. [6] [7] [1] [8]
Karpathy was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) [9] [10] [11] [12] and moved with his family to Toronto when he was 15. [13] He completed his Computer Science and Physics bachelor's degrees at University of Toronto in 2009 [14] and his master's degree at University of British Columbia in 2011, [14] where he worked on physically-simulated figures (for example, a simulated runner or a simulated person in a crowd).
Karpathy received a PhD from Stanford University in 2016 under the supervision of Fei-Fei Li, focusing on the intersection of natural language processing and computer vision, and deep learning models suited for this task. [15] [16]
He authored and was the primary instructor of the first deep learning course at Stanford, CS 231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition. [17] It became one of the largest classes at Stanford, growing from 150 students in 2015 to 750 in 2017. [18]
Karpathy is a founding member of the artificial intelligence research group OpenAI, [19] [20] where he was a research scientist from 2015 to 2017. [18] In June 2017 he became Tesla's director of artificial intelligence and reported to Elon Musk. [21] [7] [22] He was named one of MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35 for 2020. [23] After taking a several months-long sabbatical from Tesla, he announced he was leaving the company in July 2022. [24] As of February 2023, he makes YouTube videos on how to create artificial neural networks. [25]
It was reported on February 9 2023 that Karpathy had announced he was returning to OpenAI. [26]
A year later on February 13 2024, an OpenAI spokesperson confirmed that Karpathy had left OpenAI. [27]
Andrej Karpathy | |
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Born | Andrej Karpathy 23 October 1986
Bratislava,
Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) |
Alma mater |
|
Awards | Innovators Under 35 (2020) |
Scientific career | |
Fields |
Machine Learning Computer Vision Artificial intelligence [1] |
Institutions |
|
Thesis | Connecting Images and Natural Language (2016) |
Doctoral advisor | Fei-Fei Li |
Website |
karpathy |
Andrej Karpathy (born 23 October 1986 [2]) is a Slovak-Canadian computer scientist who served as the director of artificial intelligence and Autopilot Vision at Tesla. He co-founded and formerly worked at OpenAI, [3] [4] [5] where he specialized in deep learning and computer vision. [6] [7] [1] [8]
Karpathy was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) [9] [10] [11] [12] and moved with his family to Toronto when he was 15. [13] He completed his Computer Science and Physics bachelor's degrees at University of Toronto in 2009 [14] and his master's degree at University of British Columbia in 2011, [14] where he worked on physically-simulated figures (for example, a simulated runner or a simulated person in a crowd).
Karpathy received a PhD from Stanford University in 2016 under the supervision of Fei-Fei Li, focusing on the intersection of natural language processing and computer vision, and deep learning models suited for this task. [15] [16]
He authored and was the primary instructor of the first deep learning course at Stanford, CS 231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition. [17] It became one of the largest classes at Stanford, growing from 150 students in 2015 to 750 in 2017. [18]
Karpathy is a founding member of the artificial intelligence research group OpenAI, [19] [20] where he was a research scientist from 2015 to 2017. [18] In June 2017 he became Tesla's director of artificial intelligence and reported to Elon Musk. [21] [7] [22] He was named one of MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35 for 2020. [23] After taking a several months-long sabbatical from Tesla, he announced he was leaving the company in July 2022. [24] As of February 2023, he makes YouTube videos on how to create artificial neural networks. [25]
It was reported on February 9 2023 that Karpathy had announced he was returning to OpenAI. [26]
A year later on February 13 2024, an OpenAI spokesperson confirmed that Karpathy had left OpenAI. [27]