Born in Ukraine, grew up in Canada. PhD student under Geoffrey Hinton at the University of Toronto. In 2012, built AlexNet with Hinton and Ilya Sutskever, a deep convolutional neural network that won the ImageNet competition by a massive margin (error rate of 15.3% vs. the runner-up's 26.2%). This result is widely considered the moment that ignited the modern deep learning era, proving that GPU-trained deep networks could dramatically outperform traditional computer vision. The three co-founded DNNresearch, which was acquired by Google in 2013. Has maintained a relatively low public profile since.
Born in Ukraine, grew up in Canada. PhD student under Geoffrey Hinton at the University of Toronto. In 2012, built AlexNet with Hinton and Ilya Sutskever, a deep convolutional neural network that won the ImageNet competition by a massive margin (error rate of 15.3% vs. the runner-up's 26.2%). This result is widely considered the moment that ignited the modern deep learning era, proving that GPU-trained deep networks could dramatically outperform traditional computer vision. The three co-founded DNNresearch, which was acquired by Google in 2013. Has maintained a relatively low public profile since.