Computer scientist and AI researcher, known for deep learning education (Stanford CS231n, YouTube "Neural Networks: Zero to Hero"), founding Eureka Labs, and serving as Senior Director of AI at Tesla and as a founding member of OpenAI.
Influences & Inspirations
Based on primary sources — interviews, essays, and posts where Andrej directly cited these thinkers as influences.
Geoffrey Hinton
Entry point into deep learning; audited Hinton's Neural Networks class at University of Toronto circa 2007-2008.