People
by @stats385
· last added 2026-09-24
· 14 items
[people]
Key researchers and course figures — Turing awardees, ImageNet creators, instructors, guests.
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Stefano Soatto
Guest lecturer — information and invariance in representations.
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Song Mei
Guest lecturer — mean-field neural network theory.
stat.berkeley.edu ·
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Andrew Saxe
Guest lecturer — exact dynamics of deep linear networks.
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Tengyu Ma
Guest lecturer / Stanford — optimization and generalization theory.
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Nati Srebro
Guest lecturer — implicit bias and learning theory.
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Aleksander Madry
Guest lecturer — adversarial robustness and trustworthy ML.
people.csail.mit.edu ·
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David Donoho
STATS 385 instructor — high-dimensional statistics lens on deep learning.
profiles.stanford.edu ·
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Andrew Ng
Google Brain founder; influential educator and large-scale deep learning advocate.
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Fei-Fei Li
ImageNet creator — the dataset that triggered the deep CNN revolution.
profiles.stanford.edu ·
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Yoshua Bengio
Deep learning co-founder; RNNs, attention, generative models, representation learning.
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Yann LeCun
Convolutional nets pioneer (LeNet); founding figure of modern deep learning.
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Geoffrey Hinton
Backprop pioneer; deep learning co-founder. Course personalities page lead entry.