Alex Krizhevsky

1. 2009 · age 23
   CIFAR-10 Dataset Creation
   Created the CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100 datasets as part of his MSc thesis at the University of Toronto, which became foundational benchmarks in machine learning.
2. 2012 · age 26
   AlexNet Wins ImageNet
   Created AlexNet with Ilya Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton, winning the 2012 ImageNet competition by a record 10.8% margin and launching the modern deep learning era.
3. 2013 · age 27
   DNN Research Acquired by Google
   Co-founded DNN Research Inc. with Sutskever and Hinton; the startup was acquired by Google for $44 million after a bidding war among Google, Microsoft, Baidu, and DeepMind.
4. 2013 · age 27
   Joined Google
   Joined Google in Mountain View, California, as part of the Google Brain team, working on deep learning and neural network research.
5. 2017 · age 31
   Left Google for Dessa
   Departed Google in September 2017 after losing interest in the work, joining deep-learning startup Dessa as technical adviser to support new deep-learning techniques.

Krizhevsky emigrated from the Soviet Union to Canada and grew up in Toronto, where the University of Toronto's deep learning group under Geoffrey Hinton was at the global frontier. He developed GPU-based CNN training code (cuda-convnet) before AlexNet, demonstrating scarce technical depth in GPU programming for deep learning. He trained AlexNet on two GTX 580 GPUs in his bedroom at his parents' house, winning the 2012 ImageNet competition by a record margin. The collaboration with Sutskever and Hinton was complementary: Sutskever provided the theoretical motivation, Krizhevsky made it work. Family background beyond living with parents is not documented.

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Krizhevsky
• https://www.textbookofai.com/people/alex-krizhevsky.html
• https://hyperwebenable.com/tech-pioneers/alex-krizhevsky-alexnet/