Alex Krizhevsky

CNN and ImageNet victory

• Developed AlexNet, a CNN architecture that won the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge in 2012.
• Contributed significantly to the resurgence of deep learning in artificial intelligence.
• Worked closely with Ilya Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton at the University of Toronto.

Alex Krizhevsky is a Canadian computer scientist renowned for his work on artificial neural networks and deep learning.

Milestones

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  The Deep Learning Revolution Research

  The GPU Gambit That Launched a Revolution

  A deep neural network obliterated the ImageNet competition by such a staggering margin that it forced an entire field to abandon its old methods overnight.

  2012

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