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Geoffrey Hinton's academic home since 1987, now as University Professor Emeritus, where his students built AlexNet in 2012 and where he co-founded the Vector Institute in 2017.

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  • Geoffrey Hinton

    University Professor Emeritus, 1987-present

    Co-author of the 1986 backpropagation paper and the 2012 AlexNet result, Nobel and Turing laureate, who quit Google in 2023 and now tells legislators they ha...

  • Ilya Sutskever

    BSc, MSc and PhD student under Geoffrey Hinton; honorary DSc 2025, until 2013

    Co-author of AlexNet and sequence-to-sequence learning, OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist until 2024, a board member who voted to fire Sam Altman, and no...