Ilya Sutskever

Ilya Sutskever

FRS
Ilya Sutskever; FRS
איליה סוצקבר‎; Илья Суцкевер
Born	Илья Ефимович Суцкевер; Ilya Efimovich Sutskever; 8 December 1986; Gorky, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Citizenship	Canadian, Israeli
Alma mater	Open University of Israel; University of Toronto (BS, MS, PhD);
Known for	AlexNet; Co-founding OpenAI
	Scientific career
Fields	Machine learning; Neural networks; Artificial intelligence; Deep learning
Institutions	University of Toronto; Stanford University; Google Brain; OpenAI
Thesis	Training Recurrent Neural Networks (2013)
Doctoral advisor	Geoffrey Hinton
Website	www.cs.toronto.edu/~ilya/

Ilya Sutskever FRS (/ˈɪljə ˈsuːtskɪvər/; Hebrew: איליה סוצקבר; Russian: Илья́ Суцке́вер [ɪˈlʲja sʊtsˈkʲevʲɪr] born 1985/86) is a Russian-born computer scientist working in machine learning. Sutskever is a co-founder and Chief Scientist at OpenAI. He holds citizenships in Russia, Israel, and Canada.

He has made several major contributions to the field of deep learning. In 2023, Sutskever was one of the members of the OpenAI board who fired CEO Sam Altman; Altman returned a week later, and Sutskever stepped down from the board. He is the co-inventor, with Alex Krizhevsky and Geoffrey Hinton, of AlexNet, a convolutional neural network. Sutskever is also one of the many co-authors of the AlphaGo paper.

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