Distribution of Deep Learning Supertalent in Industry
A talent war between Google and Facebook?
Deep Learning is a young field and has a shortage of experts. This page explores the distribution of "supertalent" within industry. We define supertalent as those who have made major contributions to the field, either through an important discovery or by educating the field. Google and Facebook have the greatest concentration of supertalent:
Geoffrey Hinton 
Godfather of Deep Learning. Backpropagation, Boltzmann Machines, t-SNE, distillation.
Jeff Dean
Founder of Google Brain and TensorFlow.
Ian Goodfellow
Created Generative Adversarial Networks
Kaiming He 
Created ResNet, which is state-of-the-art architecture in computer vision.
Alex Krizhevsky
Created AlexNet, which shattered the ILSVRC 2012 competition.
Ross Girshick
Creator of Fast R-CNN and Faster R-CNN.
George Dahl
Created the first successful deep models for speech recognition.
Tomas Mikolov
Led team that created Word2vec
Andrej Karpathy 
Deep Learning expert. Human standard for ILSVRC competition.
