Wojciech Zaremba

Wojciech Zaremba
Residence San Francisco, California
Nationality Polish
Fields Mathematics
Computer Science
Institutions OpenAI
Alma mater New York University
Doctoral advisor Yann LeCun
Rob Fergus

Wojciech Zaremba (born November 30, 1988) is a Polish mathematician and computer scientist, noted for his work on artificial neural networks and deep learning. Zaremba is head of robotics, and founding team member of OpenAI, which mission is to build safe artificial intelligence (AI), and ensure that its benefits are as evenly distributed as possible.[1][2]

Early life

Zaremba was born in 1988 in Kluczbork, Poland. At a young age, he won local competitions and awards in mathematics, computer science, chemistry and physics.[3] In 2007, Zaremba represented Poland in the International Mathematical Olympiad, and won a silver medal.[4]

Zaremba studied at the University of Warsaw and École Polytechnique, and graduated in 2013 with two master's degrees in mathematics. He then began his PhD at New York University (NYU) in deep learning under the supervision of Yann LeCun and Rob Fergus.[5] Zaremba graduated and received his PhD in 2015.[6][7]

Career

During his undergraduate years at the University of Warsaw, Zaremba completed several internships for American technology company NVIDIA.

In the following years, Zaremba worked on an internship at Google where he reproduced state-of-the-art object-recognition modeling developed originally by DNNresearch. Elements of this model were used in Google+’s photo search feature.

Next, he worked at Google Brain,[8] and in the following year, Zaremba spent time at Facebook AI Research[9] under the supervision of Prof. Rob Fergus and Prof. Yann LeCun[10][11][12]

In 2015, Zaremba was one of the 10 co-founders of OpenAI,[13] a non-profit artificial intelligence (AI) research company. The other co-founder were Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, formerly the CTO of Stripe, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, John Schulman, and Pamela Vagata.[2] Zaremba sits on the advisory board of Growbots,[14] a Silicon Valley startup company aiming to automate sales processes with the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Honors and awards

References

  1. ↑ "Inside OpenAI, Elon Musk’s Wild Plan to Set Artificial Intelligence Free". Wired. Retrieved 2016-08-26.
  2. 1 2 Greg, Brockman (December 11, 2015). "Introducing OpenAI". OpenAI. Retrieved 2016-12-07.
  3. ↑ "Polish mathematician among the best in the world". Polish newspaper "wyborcza.pl" (in Polish). Retrieved 2016-09-20.
  4. 1 2 "Results from International Mathematical Olympiad". IMO official website. Retrieved 2016-09-20.
  5. ↑ "Personal website of Prof. Fergus". cs.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2016-08-26.
  6. ↑ "Wojciech Zaremba's PhD dissertation" (PDF). New York University PhD Theses Archive. Retrieved 2016-08-26.
  7. ↑ "Reddit discussion on Wojciech Zaremba's PhD dissertation". Machine Learning channel at Reddit. Retrieved 2016-08-26.
  8. ↑ "List of publications from Google Brain". Research at Google. Retrieved 2016-08-26.
  9. ↑ "Facebook AI Research". FAIR. Retrieved 2016-09-20.
  10. ↑ "Learning simple algorithms from examples". YouTube. Retrieved 2016-08-26.
  11. ↑ "Wojciech Zaremba's job history". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2016-08-26.
  12. ↑ "Presentation from RE.WORK Deep Learning Summit 2015". YouTube. Retrieved 2016-08-26.
  13. ↑ "About OpenAI". OpenAI company website. Retrieved 2016-08-26.
  14. ↑ "Growbots' profile page". AngelList. Retrieved 2016-09-20.
  15. ↑ "Summary of the ceremony for granting scholarships of Jolanta and Aleksander Kwasniewski". Polish President website.
  16. ↑ "Results from International Mathematical Competition". IMC official website. Retrieved 2016-09-20.
  17. ↑ "Results from 18th Vojtech Jarnik International Mathematical Competition".
  18. ↑ "Results from 21st Vojtech Jarnik International Mathematical Competition".
  19. ↑ "Hadamard Foundation scholarship announcement". Hadamard Foundation website.
  20. ↑ "Announcing the 2015 North American Google PhD Fellows". Research at Google. Retrieved 2016-08-26.
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