Alex Krizhevsky

Alex Krizhevsky is a Canadian computer scientist best known for co-creating AlexNet, the deep convolutional neural network that won the ImageNet competition in 2012 and is widely credited with igniting the deep learning revolution. He also created the CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100 datasets, which have become standard benchmarks in machine learning. He currently serves as a Venture Partner at Two Bear Capital, focusing on applications of artificial intelligence. He previously worked at Google Brain from 2013 to 2017 following Google's acquisition of DNN Research, the startup he co-founded with Ilya Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton.