Sara Hooker credits Hugo Larochelle for opening deep learning to the world
sarahookr · x · 2026-09-16
Sara Hooker shares a profile of Hugo Larochelle, recalling that before joining Google Brain she watched all his Sheffield lectures when deep learning knowledge belonged to fewer than 100 people. He later became her PhD advisor. Former Google Brain/DeepMind colleagues praise him as a tireless champion of junior researchers.
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