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Alex Krizhevsky

Alex Krizhevsky is an AI researcher who co-authored the 2012 paper on deep convolutional networks for ImageNet classification. He completed an MSc thesis on tiny-image features in 2009, joined Google in 2013, and co-authored 2017 research on robotic grasping. After leaving Google in 2017, he worked at Dessa on deep-learning techniques. NeurIPS selected the AlexNet paper for its Test of Time Award in 2022, and since 2025 he has served as a venture partner at Two Bear Capital.

Now at
Dessa
Works
31
Citations
174,669
h-index
15

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2009

    A thesis on tiny images

    He completes an MSc thesis titled 'Learning Multiple Layers of Features from Tiny Images' in 2009.

  2. 2012

    ImageNet classification

    In 2012, he co-authors a paper with Ilya Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton that trains a deep convolutional network to classify 1.3 million ImageNet training images into 1,000 classes.

  3. March 2013–September 2017

    Google research and robotic grasping

    He joins Google in March 2013 and works in Mountain View through September 2017. In 2017, he co-authors a robotics paper with Sergey Levine, Peter Pastor Sampedro, Julian Ibarz, and Deirdre Quillen; its convolutional network predicts grasp success from monocular camera images.

  4. September 2017

    Leaving Google for Dessa

    He leaves Google in September 2017 to work at Dessa on new deep-learning techniques.

  5. 2022

    A Test of Time Award

    NeurIPS selects the AlexNet paper for its Test of Time Award in 2022.

  6. Since 2025

    Two Bear Capital partner

    He joins Two Bear Capital as a venture partner in 2025, focusing on early-stage AI and technology.

Sources and credits

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  1. Alex Krizhevsky cave.cs.toronto.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  2. ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks papers.nips.cc. Checked 14 October 2026.
  3. Google Hires Brains that Helped Supercharge Machine Learning wired.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  4. Learning Hand-Eye Coordination for Robotic Grasping with Deep Learning and Large-Scale Data Collection research.google. Checked 14 October 2026.
  5. Alex Krizhevsky - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  6. Announcing the NeurIPS 2022 Awards blog.neurips.cc. Checked 14 October 2026.
  7. Alex Krizhevsky | alphaXiv alphaxiv.org. Checked 14 October 2026.