Ian Goodfellow

About the author

Ian J. Goodfellow is an American computer scientist and engineer known for his work on artificial neural networks and deep learning, including the invention of the generative adversarial network (GAN). He has held positions as a research scientist at Google DeepMind and Google Brain, director of machine learning at Apple, and was one of the first employees at OpenAI.

Goodfellow is the first author of the textbook Deep Learning (2016) and contributed a chapter on deep learning to Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach.