Andrej Karpathy

Andrej Karpathy
Karpathy at Stanford in 2016
Born
Andrej Karpathy

(1986-10-23) 23 October 1986
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia)
Alma mater
AwardsInnovators Under 35 (2020) TIME100 Most Influential People in AI (2024)
Scientific career
FieldsMachine learning
Computer vision
Artificial intelligence
Institutions
ThesisConnecting Images and Natural Language (2016)
Doctoral advisorFei-Fei Li
Websitekarpathy.ai

Andrej Karpathy (born 23 October 1986) is a Slovakian-Canadian AI researcher, who co-founded and formerly worked at OpenAI, where he specialized in deep learning and computer vision. He served as the director of artificial intelligence and Autopilot Vision at Tesla. In 2024 he founded Eureka Labs, an AI education platform, whose first course will be LLM101n: Let's Build A Storyteller.