- Associate professor of computer science, University of Toronto since 20181
Jimmy Ba is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Toronto and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair. He co-authored the Adam optimizer with Diederik Kingma and Layer Normalization with Jamie Ryan Kiros and Geoffrey Hinton. He co-founded xAI in 2023 and left in February 2026.123
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- Associate professor of computer science
- Company
- University of Toronto
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Adam and academic career
Ba co-authored Adam (2014) and Layer Normalization; Adam later received an ICLR Test of Time Award. The University of Toronto promoted him to associate professor with tenure in 2024.13
xAI
He was among xAI's founding researchers in 2023. CNBC and Business Insider reported his February 2026 departure, the second co-founder exit in two days.2
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- University of Toronto 5 people in the wiki
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- Geoffrey HintonAlso at University of Toronto
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- David DuvenaudAlso at University of Toronto
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3 sources · profile reviewed Oct 23, 2026 · data updated Oct 23, 2026