Forrest N. Iandola is an American computer scientist specializing in efficient AI.

Forrest N. Iandola
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUC Berkeley
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsTesla, Meta

Career edit

Iandola earned a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2016, advised by Kurt Keutzer. As part of his dissertation he co-authored SqueezeNet, a deep neural network for image classification that is optimized for smartphones and other mobile devices.[1][2]

Iandola and Keutzer went on to co-found DeepScale. The firm squeezes deep neural networks onto low-cost automotive grade processors for use in driver assistance systems. Tesla acquired DeepScale in 2019.[3][4]

In 2020, he co-authored SqueezeBERT, an efficient neural network for natural language processing.[5] In 2022, he joined Meta as an AI research scientist.[6][7]

References edit

  1. ^ "Exploring the Design Space of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks at Large Scale | EECS at UC Berkeley".
  2. ^ Niedermeyer, Edward (Oct 1, 2019). "Tesla Beefs Up Autonomy Effort With DeepScale Acqui-Hire". The Drive.
  3. ^ Kolodny, Lora (Oct 1, 2019). "Tesla is buying computer vision start-up DeepScale in a quest to create truly driverless cars". CNBC.
  4. ^ Lee, Timothy B. (Oct 2, 2019). "Tesla just bought an AI startup to improve Autopilot—here's what it does". Ars Technica. Retrieved Jul 8, 2020.
  5. ^ Johnson, Khari (June 23, 2020). "SqueezeBERT promises faster mobile NLP while maintaining BERT levels of accuracy". VentureBeat.
  6. ^ "I've joined Meta as an AI Research Scientist!". X (formerly Twitter). Retrieved 2023-11-28.
  7. ^ Chang, Ernie (Nov 1, 2023). "In-Context Prompt Editing For Conditional Audio Generation". arXiv:2311.00895 [cs.SD].

Further reading edit

  1. Ferris, Dacia J. (Jul 7, 2020). "Tesla's Neural Network adaptability to hardware highlighted in new patent application". Teslarati. Retrieved Jul 8, 2020.