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Andrej Karpathy | Profile
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Andrej Karpathy is an AI researcher and educator whose work spans deep learning, autonomous-driving computer vision, model training and teaching. He was an OpenAI founding member, led Tesla’s Autopilot computer-vision team, later returned to OpenAI, and founded Eureka Labs, an AI education project.
Source verification date: · Karpathy’s public timeline lists Eureka Labs and AI education from 2024 onward. This profile follows that published timeline and does not infer a later appointment. Education, course enrollment and internship details are drawn from his public materials.
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Experience
His work includes deep-learning research, autonomous-driving computer vision, model training, research internships and university course design. His current public projects focus on AI education and online courses.
Career and roles
- Eureka Labs · Founder
Current role (as reported in the cited source)
- Independent research and education · AI researcher and educator
Current role (as reported in the cited source)
- OpenAI · Research team lead, midtraining and synthetic data
2023–2024 · Returned to OpenAI and formed a team working on midtraining and synthetic data generation.
- Tesla · Director of AI
2017–2022 · Led the Autopilot computer-vision team, spanning data labeling, model training and deployment.
- OpenAI · Research scientist and founding member
2015–2017 · Joined OpenAI as a research scientist and founding member.
- DeepMind · Deep reinforcement learning intern
2015 · Interned with the deep reinforcement learning team.
- Stanford University · CS231n course designer and lecturer
From 2015, during doctoral studies · Designed and taught a course on convolutional neural networks for visual recognition.
- Google Research · Research intern, large-scale supervised learning
2013 · Worked on large-scale supervised learning for YouTube videos.
- Google Brain · Research intern, unsupervised learning
2011 · Worked on large-scale unsupervised learning for video.
Education
- Stanford University
PhD in Computer Science, 2011–2015; advised by Fei-Fei Li at the Stanford Vision Lab
- University of British Columbia
MSc, 2009–2011; research on learning controllers for physical simulation characters
- University of Toronto
BSc, 2005–2009; double major in Computer Science and Physics, with a minor in Mathematics
Public record
- Karpathy says he designed and taught Stanford’s CS231n. Enrollment rose from 150 students in 2015 to 330 in 2016 and 750 in 2017.
- Eureka Labs describes an AI-native school; its first course project is LLM101n.
Sources
- 1. Andrej Karpathy
Andrej Karpathy is an AI researcher and educator. He was a founding member of OpenAI.
- 2. Andrej Karpathy
2017 - 2022 I was the Director of AI at Tesla, where I led the computer vision team of Tesla Autopilot.
- 3. Andrej Karpathy
I started Eureka Labs, an AI+Education company.
- 4. Introducing Eureka Labs
We are Eureka Labs and we are building a new kind of school that is AI native.
- 5. Andrej Karpathy
2015 - 2017 I was a research scientist and a founding member at OpenAI.
- 6. Andrej Karpathy
2023 - 2024 I came back to OpenAI where I built a new team working on midtraining and synthetic data generation.
- 7. Andrej Karpathy
2005 - 2009 BSc at the University of Toronto with a double major in computer science and physics and a minor in math.
- 8. Andrej Karpathy
My adviser was Fei-Fei Li at the Stanford Vision Lab.
- 9. Andrej Karpathy
2009 - 2011 MSc at the University of British Columbia where I worked with Michiel van de Panne
- 10. Andrej Karpathy
150 enrolled in 2015 to 330 students in 2016, and 750 students in 2017.
- 11. Andrej Karpathy
I squeezed in 3 internships at (baby) Google Brain in 2011 … Google Research in 2013.
- 12. Andrej Karpathy
DeepMind in 2015 working on the deep reinforcement learning team.