Some labs and research groups that are actively working on deep learning:
University of Toronto – Machine Learning Group (Geoffrey Hinton, Rich Zemel, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Brendan Frey, Radford Neal)
Université de Montréal – MILA Lab (Yoshua Bengio, Pascal Vincent, Aaron Courville, Roland Memisevic)
New York University – Yann Lecun, Rob Fergus, David Sontag and Kyunghyun Cho
Stanford University – Andrew Ng, Christopher Manning‘s, Fei-fei Li‘s group
University of Oxford – Deep learning group, Nando de Freitas and Phil Blunsom, Andrew Zisserman
Google Research – Jeff Dean, Geoffrey Hinton, Samy Bengio, Ilya Sutskever, Ian Goodfellow, Oriol Vinyals, Dumitru Erhan, Quoc Le et al
Google DeepMind – Alex Graves, Karol Gregor, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Andriy Mnih, Guillaume Desjardins, Xavier Glorot, Razvan Pascanu, Volodymyr Mnih et al
Facebook AI Research(FAIR) – Yann Lecun, Rob Fergus, Jason Weston, Antoine Bordes, Soumit Chintala, Leon Bouttou, Ronan Collobert, Yann Dauphin et al.
Twitter’s Deep Learning Group – Hugo Larochelle, Ryan Adams, Clement Farabet et al
Microsoft Research – Li Deng et al
SUPSI – IDSIA (Jurgen Schmidhuber‘s group)
UC Berkeley – Bruno Olshausen‘s group, Trevor Darrell‘s group, Pieter Abbeel
UCLA – Alan Yuille
University of Washington – Pedro Domingos‘ group
IDIAP Research Institute – Ronan Collobert‘s group
University of California Merced – Miguel A. Carreira-Perpinan‘s group
University of Helsinki – Aapo Hyvärinen‘s Neuroinformatics group
Université de Sherbrooke – Hugo Larochelle‘s group
University of Guelph – Graham Taylor‘s group
University of Michigan – Honglak Lee‘s group
Technical University of Berlin – Klaus-Robert Muller‘s group
Baidu – Kai Yu‘s and Andrew Ng’s group
Aalto University – Juha Karhunen and Tapani Raiko group
U. Amsterdam – Max Welling‘s group
CMU – Chris Dyer
U. California Irvine – Pierre Baldi‘s group
Ghent University – Benjamin Shrauwen‘s group
University of Tennessee – Itamar Arel‘s group
IBM Research – Brian Kingsbury et al
University of Bonn – Sven Behnke’s group
Gatsby Unit @ University College London – Maneesh Sahani, Peter Dayan
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab @ University of Colorado Boulder
DBsystem group @ National University of Singapore
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