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Ruslan Salakhutdinov
Co-founder and CSO at Sooth LabsProfessor at Carnegie Mellon University
Salakhutdinov helped revive deep learning by developing systems that discover useful patterns in large datasets without every example being labeled. His work has influenced image and document understanding, generative AI, and methods for learning the hidden structure behind complex data.
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Co-founder and CSO 2026-presentSooth Labs
Sooth LabsProfessor 2016-presentCarnegie Mellon University
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Born1980
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