Ilya Sutskever

Ilya Sutskever
FRS
איליה סוצקבר‎
Илья Суцкевер
Born
Илья́ Ефи́мович Суцке́вер
Ilya Efimovich Sutskever

(1986-12-08) 8 December 1986 (age 37)
Gorky, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union[4][5]
CitizenshipCanadian, Israeli[6]
Alma materOpen University of Israel
University of Toronto (BS, MS, PhD)
Known forAlexNet
Co-founding OpenAI
Founding SSI Inc.
Scientific career
FieldsMachine learning
Neural networks
Artificial intelligence
Deep learning[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of Toronto
Google Brain
OpenAI
ThesisTraining Recurrent Neural Networks (2013)
Doctoral advisorGeoffrey Hinton[2][3]
Websitewww.cs.toronto.edu/~ilya/ Edit this at Wikidata

Ilya Sutskever FRS (born 8 December 1986) is a Canadian-Israeli-Russian computer scientist who specializes in machine learning.[1]

Sutskever has made several major contributions to the field of deep learning.[7][8][9] He is notably the co-inventor, with Alex Krizhevsky and Geoffrey Hinton, of AlexNet, a convolutional neural network.[10]

Sutskever co-founded and is a former chief scientist at OpenAI.[11] In 2023, he was one of the members of OpenAI's board that ousted Sam Altman from his position as CEO; Altman returned a week later, and Sutskever stepped down from the board. In June 2024, Sutskever co-founded the company Safe Superintelligence with Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy.[12][13]

  1. ^ a b Ilya Sutskever publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ Ilya Sutskever at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Edit this at Wikidata
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  4. ^ "Heard It Through the AI | University of Toronto Magazine". University of Toronto Magazine. 28 September 2022. Archived from the original on 29 May 2023. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  5. ^ "Season 1 Ep. 22 Ilya Sutskever". The Robot Brains Podcast. 21 September 2021. Archived from the original on 1 May 2023. Retrieved 14 August 2022 – via YouTube.
  6. ^ "OpenAI's Israeli co-founder departs as US gears up regulation". Jewish News Syndicate. 17 May 2024.
  7. ^ Krizhevsky, Alex; Sutskever, Ilya; Hinton, Geoffrey E (2012). "ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks". Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. 25. Curran Associates, Inc.
  8. ^ Srivastava, Nitish; Hinton, Geoffrey; Krizhevsky, Alex; Sutskever, Ilya; Salakhutdinov, Ruslan (2014). "Dropout: A Simple Way to Prevent Neural Networks from Overfitting". Journal of Machine Learning Research. 15 (56): 1929–1958. ISSN 1533-7928.
  9. ^ Sutskever, Ilya; Vinyals, Oriol; Le, Quoc V. (8 December 2014). "Sequence to sequence learning with neural networks". Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems - Volume 2. NIPS'14. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press: 3104–3112. arXiv:1409.3215.
  10. ^ Alex Krizhevsky; Ilya Sutskever; Geoffrey E. Hinton (24 May 2017). "ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks". Communications of the ACM. 60 (6): 84–90. doi:10.1145/3065386. ISSN 0001-0782. Wikidata Q59445836.
  11. ^ Metz, Cade (19 April 2018). "A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1 Million, Even at a Nonprofit". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 1 March 2023. Retrieved 22 October 2018.
  12. ^ "Safe Superintelligence Inc". SSI. 19 June 2024. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  13. ^ Vance, Ashlee (19 June 2024). "Ilya Sutskever Has a New Plan for Safe Superintelligence". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 19 June 2024.