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20122010s
Alex Krizhevsky
Created AlexNet, the Convolutional Neural Network that triggered the deep learning revolution.
Organizations
University of TorontoGoogleDescript
Major Achievements
- •Lead author of 'ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks' (2012).
- •Wrote the CUDA code that successfully trained the first massive CNN on GPUs.
- •His victory at the ILSVRC 2012 irrevocably pivoted the tech industry away from symbolic AI.
Key Papers
- ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, Geoffrey E. Hinton · NeurIPS 2012
- Dropout: A Simple Way to Prevent Neural Networks from Overfitting
Nitish Srivastava et al. · Journal of Machine Learning Research · 2014