Ian Goodfellow

Ian J. Goodfellow is a computer scientist working in machine learning, currently employed as a research scientist at OpenAI. He has made several contributions to the field of deep learning.
Goodfellow obtained his B.S. and M.S. in computer science from Stanford University and his Ph.D. in machine learning from the Université de Montréal, under the supervision of Yoshua Bengio. After graduation, Goodfellow joined Google as part of the Google Brain research team. Later he left Google to join the newly founded OpenAI institute.
Goodfellow is best known for inventing generative adversarial networks, an approach to machine learning used heavily at Facebook. He is also the lead author of the textbook Deep Learning. At Google, he developed a system enabling Google Maps to automatically transcribe addresses from photos taken by Street View Cars and demonstrated security vulnerabilities of machine learning systems.