Quoc Viet Le

Quoc Viet Le (born 1982), or Quoc Le, Le Viet Quoc, is a Vietnamese-American computer scientist and a machine learning pioneer at Google Brain, which he established with others from Google. He co-invented doc2vec[1] and seq2seq[2] models in natural language processing. Le also initiated and lead the AutoML initiative at Google Brain, including the proposal of neural architecture search.[3][4][5][6]

Quoc Viet Le
Born1982 (age 40–41)
Hương Thủy, Thừa Thiên Huế, Vietnam
EducationAustralian National University
Stanford University
Scientific career
FieldsMachine learning
InstitutionsGoogle Brain
ThesisScalable feature learning (2013)
Doctoral advisorAndrew Ng
Other academic advisorsAlex Smola

Education and career

Le was born in Hương Thủy in the Thừa Thiên Huế province of Vietnam.[4] He studied at Quốc Học Huế High School.[7] In 2004, Le moved to Australia and attended Australian National University for Bachelor's program, during which he worked under Alex Smola on Kernel method in machine learning.[8] In 2007, Le moved to Stanford University for graduate studies in computer science, where his PhD advisor was Andrew Ng.

In 2011, Le became a cofounder of Google Brain along with his then PhD advisor Andrew Ng and fellow student Jeff Dean and Google researcher Greg Corrado.[4] In 2014, Ilya Sutskever, Oriol Vinyals and Le proposed the seq2seq model for machine translation. In the same year, Tomáš Mikolov and Le proposed the doc2vec model for representation learning of documents.

Honors and awards

Le was named MIT Technology Review's innovators under 35 in 2014.[9] He has been interviewed by and his research has been reported in major media outlets including Wired,[5] the New York Times,[10] the Atlantic,[11] and the MIT Technology Review.[12]

See also

References
  1. Le, Quoc V.; Mikolov, Tomas (2014-05-22). "Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents". arXiv:1405.4053 [cs.CL].
  2. Sutskever, Ilya; Vinyals, Oriol; Le, Quoc V. (2014-12-14). "Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks". arXiv:1409.3215 [cs.CL].
  3. Zoph, Barret; Le, Quoc V. (2017-02-15). "Neural Architecture Search with Reinforcement Learning". arXiv:1611.01578 [cs.LG].
  4. "Le Viet Quoc, a young Vietnamese engineer who holds Google's brain". tipsmake.com. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
  5. Hernandez, Daniela. "A Googler's Quest to Teach Machines How to Understand Emotions". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2022-11-25.
  6. Chow, Rony (2021-06-07). "Quoc V. Le: Fast, Furious and Automatic". History of Data Science. Retrieved 2022-11-26.
  7. "Fulbright scholars Vietnam - Le Viet Quoc".
  8. "Meet Le Viet Quoc, a Vietnamese talent at Google". Tuoi Tre News. 2019-02-15. Retrieved 2022-11-25.
  9. "Quoc Le". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
  10. Lewis-Kraus, Gideon (2016-12-14). "The Great A.I. Awakening". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-11-26.
  11. Madrigal, Alexis C. (2012-06-26). "The Triumph of Artificial Intelligence! 16,000 Processors Can Identify a Cat in a YouTube Video Sometimes". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2022-11-26.
  12. "AI's Language Problem". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2022-11-26.
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