A few months back, Apple’s AI chief Ian Goodfellow decided to quit over a “work from home” order. The man best known for inventing Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) has made the official announcement of going back to Google today, on Twitter.

He joined as a research scientist in DeepMind - the AI subsidiary of Alphabet (earlier Google). Demis Hassabis, the Founder and CEO of DeepMind welcomed him. 

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Goodfellow got his PhD at the University of Montreal in 2014. Aside from his stints at Google Brain and OpenAI, Goodfellow has also published the textbook Deep Learning with his former advisors, Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville. 

As one of the most respected and youngest A.I. researchers in the world, Ian Goodfellow has been active in advancing the field of deep learning. Having studied under some of the leading deep-learning practitioners like Yoshua Bengio and Andrew Ng, Goodfellow’s expertise involves neural networks. Goodfellow’s creation of popularly called generative adversarial networks (GANs) has enabled researchers to create realistic-looking but entirely computer-generated photos of people’s faces.