Ian Goodfellow
Builders & open source
At a glance. Ian Goodfellow has no current role listed in the source profile. The profile sits among the builders and open-source contributors. Fields listed: Image, video, and 3D generation, Safety and alignment and Teaching and writing. The source lists 1 official page and open-role pages for OpenAI.
Summary
First author of the Generative Adversarial Networks paper and co-author of the Deep Learning textbook.
Known for: Generative Adversarial Networks; Deep Learning (MIT Press textbook).
Other documented roles
Not confirmed as current in the source profile.
- Principal Scientist (as listed in 2023), Google DeepMind
- Director of Machine Learning, Special Project Group, Apple
- Research scientist, OpenAI
- Research scientist, Google
Open roles
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- Lila IbrahimConnected to Google DeepMind
- Heiga ZenConnected to Google DeepMind
- Adam GleaveConnected to Google DeepMind
- Richard SuttonConnected to Google DeepMind
- Duen Horng "Polo" ChauTeaching and writing · Safety and alignment
- Bilawal SidhuTeaching and writing · Image, video, and 3D generation
- Matt WolfeTeaching and writing · Image, video, and 3D generation
- Zvi MowshowitzTeaching and writing · Safety and alignment
- Stuart RussellSafety and alignment · Teaching and writing
Source and corrections
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