Ilya Sutskever

Ilya Sutskever (born 1985/86) is a computer scientist specialized in machine learning.

Sutskever has made several major contributions to the field of deep learning. He is notably the co-inventor, with Alex Krizhevsky and Geoffrey Hinton, of AlexNet, a convolutional neural network.

Sutskever co-founded and is a former chief scientist at OpenAI. In 2023, he was one of the members of OpenAI's board who fired CEO Sam Altman; Altman returned a week later, and Sutskever stepped down from the board. In June 2024, Sutskever co-founded the company Safe Superintelligence with Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy. Provided by Wikipedia