Nationality Polish Doctoral advisor Yann LeCunRob Fergus | ||
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Residence San Francisco, California, United States Fields Mathematics, Computer Science | ||
Wojciech Zaremba (born November 30, 1988) is a Polish mathematician and computer scientist, noted for his work on artificial neural networks and deep learning. In 2015, Zaremba co-founded OpenAI, with a mission to build safe artificial intelligence (AI), and ensure that its benefits are as evenly distributed as possible.
Contents
- Deephack q a wojciech zaremba learning simple algorithms from examples
- Early life
- Career
- Honors and awards
- References
Deephack q a wojciech zaremba learning simple algorithms from examples
Early life
Zaremba was born in 1988 in Kluczbork, Poland. At a young age, he won local competitions and awards in mathematics, computer science, chemistry and physics. As a child, he built two functioning chemical laboratories where he completed his experiments. In his teens, his focus shifted from chemistry to computer science and mathematics. In 2007, Zaremba represented Poland in the International Mathematical Olympiad, and won a silver medal.
Zaremba studied at the University of Warsaw and École Polytechnique, and graduated in 2013 with two master's degrees in mathematics. He then began his PhD at New York University (NYU) in deep learning under the supervision of Yann LeCun and Rob Fergus. Zaremba graduated and received his PhD in just 2.5 years, setting a record at NYU.
Career
During his undergraduate years at the University of Warsaw, Zaremba completed several internships for American technology company NVIDIA.
In the following years, Zaremba worked on an internship at Google where he reproduced state-of-the-art object-recognition modeling developed originally by DNNresearch. Elements of this model were used in Google+’s photo search feature.
This led to his work at Google Brain, and in the following year, Zaremba spent time at Facebook AI Research under the supervision of Prof. Rob Fergus and Prof. Yann LeCun
In 2015, Zaremba was one of the 10 co-founders of OpenAI, a non-profit artificial intelligence (AI) research company. The other co-founder were Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, formerly the CTO of Stripe, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, John Schulman, and Pamela Vagata. Zaremba sits on the advisory board of Growbots, a Silicon Valley startup company aiming to automate sales processes with the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence.