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Kyunghyun Cho

Co-invented the GRU and the attention mechanism that led to the Transformer.

b. 1984United StatesProfessor, New York UniversitySenior Director, Frontier Research, Genentech

With Bahdanau and Bengio, introduced neural machine translation with attention in 2014 — the direct ancestor of the Transformer three years later.

Known for

GRUNeural machine translation with attention

3 CareerEvery role we can document, most recent first

2023–now3 yrsGenentechSenior Director, Frontier Research
2015–now11 yrsNew York UniversityProfessor
2014–20151 yrUniversité de MontréalPostdoctoral Fellow

0 Books & papersPublished work, oldest first

No books — their work lives in papers, code and talks. The accounts above are the place to follow it.

LineageWho taught whom. Most of this field descends from a handful of laboratories, and the shortest path between two researchers is usually an advisor.

Studied underdoctoral or postdoctoral advisors

Yoshua Bengio

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