Ian Goodfellow

This article is about the computer scientist Ian Goodfellow; on the badminton player, see Ian Coombs-Goodfellow

Ian Goodfellow

Ian Goodfellow (born 1987) is an American computer scientist and Director of Machine Learning at Apple Inc.

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Ian Goodfellow studied at Stanford University and then obtained his PhD from the Université de Montréal . He is the inventor of the Generative Adversarial Networks . He also developed an image recognition method to identify numbers in photographs. He has been working at Google Brain since March 2017 on the development of deep learning . Together with Aaron Courville and his PhD supervisor Yoshua Bengio, he is the author of the standard work Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning) .

In 2019, Goodfellow moved from Google to Apple Inc. and has held the position of Director of Machine Learning there ever since .

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• with Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville: Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning) , MIT Press, Cambridge (USA), 2016. ISBN 978-0262035613 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ben Schwan: Apple snaps ML expert Ian Goodfellow from Google. Heise Online, April 8, 2019, accessed June 21, 2020 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Alexander Armbruster: Ian Goodfellow Shooting Star of Artificial Intelligence. In: faz.net. July 13, 2017. Retrieved July 20, 2017 . 
3. ^ Emerging Technology from the ar Xiv: How Google Cracked House Number Identification in Street View. In: technologyreview.com. Retrieved July 13, 2017 .