Alex Krizhevsky

Alex Krizhevsky (born in Ukraine, raised in Canada) is a computer scientist most noted for his work on artificial neural networks and deep learning. Shortly after having won the ImageNet challenge 2012 through AlexNet, he and his colleagues sold their startup DNN Research Inc. to Google. Krizhevsky left Google in September 2017 after losing interest in the work, to work at the company Dessa in support for new deep-learning techniques. Many of his numerous papers on machine learning and computer vision are frequently cited by other researchers. He is creator of the CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100 datasets.