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Ian Goodfellow is an AI researcher and stealth startup cofounder who invented generative adversarial networks and coauthored Deep Learning. He also cofounded and chairs Public Health Action Network, a nonprofit developing tools to reduce airborne disease transmission.
Ian Goodfellow is an AI researcher and stealth startup cofounder who invented generative adversarial networks and coauthored Deep Learning. He also cofounded and chairs Public Health Action Network, a nonprofit developing tools to reduce airborne disease transmission.
Career
Ian Goodfellow studied at Stanford University (Bachelor's degree) and Université de Montréal (Ph.D.).
SSCo-founder at Stealth startup until Present
PHCo-founder and Chairman of the Board at Public Health Action Network until Present
Research Scientist at Google DeepMind from 2022 to 2025Worked on large-scale deep-learning research after leaving Apple.
Research Scientist at Google from 2014 to 2019Worked on deep-learning infrastructure and adversarial machine-learning research across two tenures.
Research Scientist at OpenAI from 2016 to 2017Conducted artificial-intelligence research as an early employee.Investing Announcements
Cosigns Received
Alexia Jolicoeur-MartineauPrincipal Researcher at Microsoft working on artificial intelligence and generative models
My second paper (Relativistic GAN) got picked up by @goodfellow_ian, who helped me enter the AI world.
