Andrej Karpathy

Andrej Karpathy leads the team working on the neural networks of the Autopilot in Tesla’s cars. He worked previously at OpenAI as a research scientist on Deep Learning in Computer vision, Reinforcement Learning, and Generative Modeling. Andrej worked with Fei-Fei Li for his Ph.D. at Stanford, where he worked on Convolutional/Recurrent Neural Network architectures and their applications in Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision and their intersection. He also interned at Google working on large-scale feature learning over YouTube videos. Andrej was the primary instructor at the Stanford class on Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition (CS231n), which he designed together with Fei-Fei. The Deep Learning Course was a huge success, with the number of students enrolled from 150 in 2015 to 750 in 2017. 

Andrej is active on social media, with 352.4K followers on Twitter. He is an enthusiastic blogger and is the developer of Deep Learning libraries in javascript. He also spends his spare time maintaining Arxiv, which is home to over 100,000 papers on machine learning accumulated over the last six years.