Alexey Grigorevich Ivakhnenko

Alexey Grigoryevich (Olexiy Hryhorovych) Ivakhnenko (30 March 1913 Kobeliaky, Ukraine, Russian empire, died 16 October 2007, Kiev) was a Ukrainian mathematician. He was an Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Ivakhnenko graduated in 1938 from the Leningrad Institute of Electric Engineering. In 1944 he joined the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kiev. From 1964 he was Head of the Combined Control Systems Division of the Glushkov Institute of Cyberneticsuk at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Ivakhnenko developed the Group Method of Data Handling (GMDH), which is a method of inductive statistical learning. Sometimes he is mentioned as "father of Deep Learning".[1]

He was awarded:

Bibliography

References

  1. [Jürgen Schmidhuber. Critique of Paper by "Deep Learning Conspiracy" (Nature 521 p 436), June 2015. http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/deep-learning-conspiracy.html]



This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, March 28, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.