Ian Goodfellow

Ian Goodfellow
Born	1987[1]
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Stanford University Université de Montréal
Known for	Generative adversarial networks, Adversarial examples
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	Apple Inc. Google Brain OpenAI DeepMind Google DeepMind
Thesis	Deep Learning of Representations and its Application to Computer Vision (2014)
Doctoral advisor	Yoshua Bengio Aaron Courville
Website	www.iangoodfellow.com

Ian J. Goodfellow (born 1987^[1]) is an American computer scientist, engineer, and executive, most noted for his work on artificial neural networks and deep learning. He was previously employed as a research scientist at Google Brain and director of machine learning at Apple and has made several important contributions to the field of deep learning including the invention of the generative adversarial network (GAN). Goodfellow co-wrote, as the first author, the textbook Deep Learning (2016)^[2] and wrote the chapter on deep learning in the authoritative textbook of the field of artificial intelligence, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach^[3][4] (used in more than 1,500 universities in 135 countries).^[5]