Andrej Karpathy

Andrej Karpathy (born October 23, 1986[1]) is the director of artificial intelligence and Autopilot Vision at Tesla.[2][3][4] He specializes in deep learning[5] and image recognition and understanding.[6]

Andrej Karpathy
Karpathy at OpenAI in 2019
Born (1986-10-23) October 23, 1986
Alma materStanford University
Scientific career
FieldsArtificial intelligence
InstitutionsTesla, Inc.
ThesisConnecting Images and Natural Language (2016)
Doctoral advisorFei-Fei Li

Andrej Karpathy was born in Slovakia and moved with his family to Toronto when he was 15.[7] He completed his Computer Science and Physics undergraduate degree at University of Toronto in 2009[8] and completed his master's degree at University of British Columbia in 2011, [8] where he worked on physically-simulated figures. He graduated with PhD from Stanford University in 2015 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.[9] He joined the artificial intelligence group OpenAI as a research scientist in September 2016[10] and became Tesla's director of artificial intelligence in June 2017.[6]

He has a YouTube channel dedicated to speedcubing.[8]

Karpathy was named one of the MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 for the year 2020.[11]

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