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Andrej Karpathy

Andrej Karpathy

@karpathy

Building EurekaLabsAI. Previously Director of Al at Tesla, founding team at OpenAl, CS231n/PhD at Stanford. I like to train large deep neural nets.

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Location

Torronto, Canada

San Francisco, CA

Projects

Ideas brought to life. A look at the products, companies, and creative works built from the ground up, turning concepts into reality.

ConvNetJS

ConvNetJS

deep-learning library written from scratch in JavaScript with browser demos.

Source: cs.stanford.edu
micrograd

micrograd

tiny autograd engine + minimal NN library (educational)

Source: github.com
Neural Networks: Zero-to-Hero

Neural Networks: Zero-to-Hero

free course/site and YouTube series

Source: karpathy.ai

In the Spotlight

When your work speaks for itself, sometimes others join the conversation. A collection of articles, interviews, and viral content where achievements have been shared.

Recognitions

Formal validation from the top. A showcase of official awards, grants, and government acknowledgements that recognize excellence and extraordinary ability.

EB1A

EB-1A Green Card

EB-1A Green Card

Work Experience

Key roles that defined the journey. A timeline of companies and ventures where Sigil played a critical part in building teams, shipping products, and driving impact.

Founding Member & Research Scientist at OpenAI

Founding Member & Research Scientist at OpenAI

Source: chatgpt.com

2015-2017

Sr. Director of AI (Autopilot Vision) at Tesla

Sr. Director of AI (Autopilot Vision) at Tesla

Source: tesla.com

2017-2022

Founder at Eureka Labs

Founder at Eureka Labs

Source: eurekalabs.ai

Current

Education

Academic foundation and learning journey. Institutions and programs that shaped expertise and knowledge.

University of Toronto

University of Toronto

BSc, Computer Science & Physics

Source: utoronto.ca

2009

University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia

MSc, Computer Science

Source: ubc.ca

2011

Stanford University

Stanford University

PhD, Computer Science

Source: stanford.edu

2016

Publications

Written works, articles, and publications that showcase expertise and thought leadership.

Large-scale Video Classification with Convolutional Neural Networks

Large-scale Video Classification with Convolutional Neural Networks

cs.stanford.edu

Source: cs.stanford.edu

2014

Deep Visual-Semantic Alignments for Generating Image Descriptions

Deep Visual-Semantic Alignments for Generating Image Descriptions

cv-foundation.org

Source: cv-foundation.org

2015

PhD thesis: “Connecting Images and Natural Language.

PhD thesis: “Connecting Images and Natural Language.

purl.stanford.edu

Source: purl.stanford.edu

2016

Essay: “Software 2.0.”

Essay: “Software 2.0.”

karpathy.medium.com

Source: karpathy.medium.com

2017

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