Quoc Le

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Quoc Le

Contributions to deep learning

  • Google Fellow at Google DeepMind
  • Founding member of Google Brain

Quoc Viet Le, a Vietnamese-American computer scientist, is a key researcher in deep learning and neural networks, contributing significantly to the Google Brain project and Google DeepMind.

Milestones

  • The Neural Network That Found Cats on the Internet
    The Deep Learning Revolution Research
    The Neural Network That Found Cats on the Internet

    Google's secret project used 16,000 processors to build a neural network that spontaneously learned to recognize cats from unlabeled YouTube videos — proving unsupervised deep learning could discover concepts on its own.

    2012