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
Slovakia
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]

References
  1. Self-reported on twitter
  2. "Tesla's Autopilot chief steps down after two years". 26 April 2018. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  3. "A.I. Researchers Leave Elon Musk Lab to Begin Robotics Start-Up". 7 November 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  4. "A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1 Million, Even at a Nonprofit". 19 April 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  5. "The Guy Who Taught AI to 'Remember' Is Launching a Startup". 28 July 2018. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  6. "Elon Musk has poached a top mind in AI research—from himself". 21 June 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  7. "Next Generation Machine Learning - Training Deep Learning Models in a Browser: Andrej Karpathy Interview | DataScienceWeekly.org". DataScienceWeekly.org. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
  8. "Andrej Karpathy Academic Website". cs.stanford.edu. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
  9. "Does 'robo-journalism' pose a threat to reporters?". 23 March 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  10. "Tesla hired a top AI expert to lead a critical aspect of Autopilot -- here's what we know". 22 June 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  11. "Innovators Under 35 2020".
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