Wojciech Zaremba (born November 30, 1988) is a Polish mathematician and computer scientist, noted for his work on artificial neural networks and deep learning. Zaremba is head of robotics, and founding team member of OpenAI, which mission is to build safe artificial intelligence (AI), and ensure that its benefits are as evenly distributed as possible.
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Early life
Zaremba was born in 1988 in Kluczbork, Poland. At a young age, he won local competitions and awards in mathematics, computer science, chemistry and physics. In 2007, Zaremba represented Poland in the International Mathematical Olympiad, and won a silver medal.
Zaremba studied at the University of Warsaw and École Polytechnique, and graduated in 2013 with two master's degrees in mathematics. He then began his PhD at New York University (NYU) in deep learning under the supervision of Yann LeCun and Rob Fergus. Zaremba graduated and received his PhD in 2015.
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Career
During his undergraduate years at the University of Warsaw, Zaremba completed several internships for American technology company NVIDIA.
In the following years, Zaremba worked on an internship at Google where he reproduced state-of-the-art object-recognition modeling developed originally by DNNresearch. Elements of this model were used in Google+'s photo search feature.
Next, he worked at Google Brain, and in the following year, Zaremba spent time at Facebook AI Research under the supervision of Prof. Rob Fergus and Prof. Yann LeCun
In 2015, Zaremba was one of the 10 co-founders of OpenAI, a non-profit artificial intelligence (AI) research company. The other co-founders were Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, formerly the CTO of Stripe, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, John Schulman, and Pamela Vagata. Zaremba sits on the advisory board of Growbots, a Silicon Valley startup company aiming to automate sales processes with the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Honors and awards
- Aleksander Kwa?niewski President Scholarship for talented children
- Scholar of Polish Children's Fund from 2000 to 2007
- Silver Medal in 48th International Mathematical Olympiad, Vietnam
- 3rd place, 7th Czech-Polish-Slovakian Mathematical Competition 2007
- Second Prize, 15th International Mathematics Competition, Bulgaria 2008
- 26th place and 14th place, Vojtech Jarnik International Mathematical Competition 2008, 2011
- Hadamard Foundation Scholarship
- Google Fellowship 2015
References
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