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Emmanuel AmeisenResearch Engineer · AnthropicResearcher↗
Researcher
Andrej Karpathy
AnthropicMember of Technical Staff
🇸🇰🇨🇦 Slovak-CanadianBorn 1986
Karpathy helped establish modern vision-language research, led Tesla's shift toward neural networks for camera-based driving, and built influential courses and tutorials that teach people to create language models from first principles.[1] His work bridges frontier engineering with unusually accessible technical education.
Career & education
Current roleAnthropic2026-presentMember of Technical Staff
Anthropic2026-presentPreviously
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations81,519As of Oct 13, '26
citations+2,055Since last snapshot, Jun 15, '26
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Selected contributions
ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
With Olga Russakovsky, Jia Deng, Hao Su, Jonathan Krause, Sanjeev Satheesh, Sean Ma, Zhiheng Huang and others ·Documented ImageNet's shared tests and progress in recognizing and locating objects in images.
Large-scale Video Classification with Convolutional Neural Networks
Tested neural networks for classifying sports videos at the scale of a million YouTube videos.
Deep Visual-Semantic Alignments for Generating Image Descriptions
With Fei-Fei LiConnected words with image regions to generate descriptions of scenes and their details.
References
- Andrej Karpathy — AI education and researchkarpathy.ai
built influential courses and tutorials that teach people to create language models from first principles.
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