British-Canadian computer scientist often called the 'Godfather of AI' for his foundational work on artificial neural networks. His 2012 paper with Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskever (AlexNet) demonstrated that deep convolutional networks trained on GPUs could dramatically outperform classical computer vision — triggering the current era of deep learning. His earlier work on backpropagation (1986), Boltzmann machines, and distributed representations forms the theoretical backbone of all modern AI. He shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to machine learning.
- Nationality: british
- Roles: computer scientist, researcher
