Ilya Sutskever

Ilya Sutskever received his PhD in 2012 from the University of Toronto working with Geoffrey Hinton. After completing his PhD, he cofounded DNNResearch with Geoffrey Hinton and Alex Krizhevsky which was acquired by Google. He is interested in all aspects of neural networks and their applications. Born in the Soviet Union, he spent his formative years in Israel and emigrated to Canada as a teenager. As a graduate student at the University of Toronto, he helped create a breakthrough in an A.I. technology called neural networks. In 2015, Mr. Sutskever left a job at Google and helped found OpenAI alongside Mr. Altman, Mr. Brockman and Tesla’s chief executive, Elon Musk.