Matt has worked alongside renowned machine learning pioneers Geoff Hinton, Rob Fergus, Yann LeCun, and Jeff Dean. This experience cultivated his passion for convolutional and deconvolutional neural networks and visual recognition. Matt's unprecedented knowledge and know-how in deep learning landed him winning the top five places in image classification at the ImageNet 2013 competition. Since starting Clarifai in 2013, Matt has evolved his award-winning research into developer-friendly products that allow enterprises to quickly and seamlessly integrate AI into their workflows and customer experiences. Matt received his undergraduate degree at University of Toronto and a Ph.D. in machine learning and image recognition from New York University.