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Russ's first PhD and first startup co-founder here.. Kids these days would forget that his 2006 Science paper is what kicked off the *entire* Deep Learning revolution. Still vividly rem that one time him settling for my sunnyvale apt air 🛏️ as we prepared long into the night for our deck to the Apple execs - Russ worked incredibly hard in pursuit of greatness in both academia and industry. Lastly, Russ was and still is the most approachable and gregarious super-star AI/ML prof of them all, no matter if you were a colleague, investor, mag 7 CEO or simply a random ML conf attendee. #character
I’ve been asked several times whether Zhilin Yang, the founder of @Kimi_Moonshot was my PhD student. The answer is yes and he is absolutely brilliant. But I’ve been incredibly fortunate to work with so many outstanding PhD students over the years. So I thought I’d brag a little about them and their career paths (of course there are also many MSc and undergraduate students, sorry if I missed anyone): Founders / Founding Team Members Devendra Chaplot @dchaplot PhD, Founding Member Thinking Machines / Mistral Zhilin Yang PhD, Founder & CEO, Moonshot AI Jimmy Ba @jimmybajimmyba MSc/PhD, Co-founder xAI Hubert Tsai PhD, Co-founder Spuree, Apple Nitish Srivastava @nitishsr PhD, Co-founder Perceptual Machines; Co-founder Vayu Robotics Charlie Tang PhD, Co-founder Perceptual Machines, DE Shaw. Professors Paul Liang @pliang279 PhD, MIT Ben Eysenbach @ben_eysenbach PhD, Princeton University Ruosong Wang @RuosongW PhD, Peking University Bhuwan Dhingra @bhuwandhingra PhD, Duke University Roger Grosse @RogerGrosse Postdoc, University of Toronto Alexander Schwing Postdoc, UIUC Research Scientists Shuyan Zhou @shuyanzh36, Postdoc, Meta Superintelligence Lab Tiffany Min @SoYeonTiffMin PhD, Microsoft AI Murtaza Dalal @mihdalal PhD, Tesla AI Minji Yoon @MinjiYoon90 , PhD, Microsoft AI Shrimai Prabhumoye PhD, NVIDIA AI, Mistral Haitian Sun @sun_haitian PhD, Google DeepMind Emilio Parisotto PhD, Google DeepMind Lisa Lee PhD @rl_agent, Google DeepMind Manzil Zaheer @ManzilZaheer PhD, Google DeepMind Jamie Kiros PhD, Google Brain, OpenAI Yuri Burda PhD, OpenAI, Anthropic Cody Severinski PhD, Amazon
Charlie @tang_1c was one of my very first PhD students at Toronto. I still remember those days when together with Nitish @nitishsr, we were pitching our research to Apple execs. Great memories and fun times!
Russ's first PhD and first startup co-founder here.. Kids these days would forget that his 2006 Science paper is what kicked off the *entire* Deep Learning revolution. Still vividly rem that one time him settling for my sunnyvale apt air 🛏️ as we prepared long into the night for our deck to the Apple execs - Russ worked incredibly hard in pursuit of greatness in both academia and industry. Lastly, Russ was and still is the most approachable and gregarious super-star AI/ML prof of them all, no matter if you were a colleague, investor, mag 7 CEO or simply a random ML conf attendee. #character
Russ was training deep neural networks in 2006 using matlab -- if you don't put respect on his name that says more about you then it does about him
Russ's first PhD and first startup co-founder here.. Kids these days would forget that his 2006 Science paper is what kicked off the *entire* Deep Learning revolution. Still vividly rem that one time him settling for my sunnyvale apt air 🛏️ as we prepared long into the night for our deck to the Apple execs - Russ worked incredibly hard in pursuit of greatness in both academia and industry. Lastly, Russ was and still is the most approachable and gregarious super-star AI/ML prof of them all, no matter if you were a colleague, investor, mag 7 CEO or simply a random ML conf attendee. #character
People have been training ANNs since the 70s and since the 80s it is very standard stuff.
Russ was training deep neural networks in 2006 using matlab -- if you don't put respect on his name that says more about you then it does about him https://twitter.com/tang_1c/status/2078305386508259435