Deep Learning

Ian Goodfellow

born 1987 · American scientist, author

Profession

AI researcher, Computer scientist

Worked at

Google

Studied at

Stanford, Université de Montréal

Studied under

Yoshua Bengio, Aaron C. Courville

Invented generative adversarial networks (GANs) in 2014.

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Yoshua Bengio

born 1964 · Canadian computer scientist

• Turing Award
• Fellow of the Royal Society

Profession

AI researcher, Computer scientist, Professor

Worked at

Université de Montréal

Studied at

McGill, MIT

Studied under

Renato De Mori

Prizes

Turing Award (2018), Fellow of the Royal Society (2020), Acfas Urgel-Archambeault Award (2009), Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2017), Prix Marie-Victorin (2017), Lifetime Achievement Award of the Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association (2018), IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award (2019), AAAI Fellow (2020), Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research (2022), ACM Fellow (2023), VinFuture Prize (2024), Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (2025)

Shared the 2018 Turing Award for deep learning.

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Aaron Courville

computer scientist

Profession

Computer scientist, Professor

Worked at

Université de Montréal

Studied at

Toronto, Carnegie Mellon

Studied under

David S. Touretzky