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Ilya Sutskever

1986 - Today

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Ilya Sutskever (Hebrew: איליה סוצקבר; born 8 December 1986) is an Israeli-Canadian computer scientist who specializes in machine learning. He has made several major contributions to the field of deep learning. With Alex Krizhevsky and Geoffrey Hinton, he co-invented AlexNet, a convolutional neural network. Sutskever co-founded and was a former chief scientist at OpenAI. In 2023, he was one of the members of OpenAI's board that ousted Sam Altman from his position as the organization's CEO; Altman was reinstated a week later, and Sutskever stepped down from the board. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ilya Sutskever is the 201st most popular computer scientist (up from 221st in 2019), the 2,611th most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,924th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Russian Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Ilya Sutskever ranks 201 out of 245. Before him are Gilles Brassard, Erich Gamma, Peter Norvig, Jon Hall, Christian Engström, and Fei-Fei Li. After him are Andrew Morton, Pat Hanrahan, Lex Fridman, Chieko Asakawa, Rodney Brooks, and Sophie Wilson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1986, Ilya Sutskever ranks 271. Before him are Ana Brenda Contreras, Vieirinha, Theodor Gebre Selassie, Koya Saito, Sergiy Stakhovsky, and Marcel Granollers. After him are Manabu Watanabe, Valeri Bojinov, Pedro León, Yon González, Satomi Ishihara, and Kōhei Horikoshi.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ilya Sutskever ranks 2,611 out of 3,761. Before him are Anna Chakvetadze (1987), Yelena Nikolayeva (1966), Andrey Perlov (1961), Vasili Berezutski (1982), Ludmila Engquist (1964), and Alexander Zhulin (1963). After him are Igor Romishevsky (1940), Leonid Slutsky (1968), Zilya Valeeva (1952), Ivan Urgant (1978), Anna Samokhina (1963), and Mikhail Porechenkov (1969).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Russia

Among computer scientists born in Russia, Ilya Sutskever ranks 5. Before him are Sergey Brin (1973), Eugene Kaspersky (1965), Sergey Lebedev (1902), and Vitalik Buterin (1994).

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