Andrej Karpathy (born October 23, 1986), is the Director of Artificial Intelligence and Autopilot Vision at Tesla. He specializes in deep learning and computer vision. ^{[1] [2] [10] [12] [13] [14]}

He is a verified Brave (web browser) creator. ^[3]

Andrej Karpathy was born in Slovakia and moved with his family to Toronto when he was 15. ^[3]

Andrej Karpathy completed his computer science and physics bachelor's degree at the University of Toronto in 2009 and completed his Master's degree at University of British Columbia in 2011, where he worked on physically-simulated figures. He graduated with a PhD from Stanford University in 2015 under the supervision of Fei-Fei Li, focusing on the intersection of natural language processing and computer vision, and deep learning models suited for this task. ^[3]

He joined the artificial intelligence group OpenAI as a research scientist in September 2016 and became Tesla's Director of Artificial Intelligence in June 2017. ^[3]

Karpathy was named one of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Review's Innovators Under 35 for the year 2020. ^[11]

Karpathy has a significant following on social media platforms. He has over 317,000 followers on Twitter and over 28,000 on GitHub. ^[10]

On his self-titled YouTube channel, Karpathy has over 29,000 subscribers and over 1,702,016 views. One of his most popular videos is titled, "Pong AI with Policy Gradients", which has over 158,378 views. ^[4]