From 2004 to 2009, Ian Goodfellow attended Stanford University, where he studied computer science, with an emphasis on AI. Then he would get his PhD in machine learning at the Université de Montréal. Through his education, he learned from some of the best researchers in AI like Yoshua Bengio and Andrew Ng.
Goodfellow certainly put this to work. He cowrote the influential book Deep Learning. He also was an engineer at Google where he would help improve applications like Google Maps.
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