Ian J. Goodfellow is a Staff Research Scientist working in machine learning, currently employed as a research scientist at Google Brain. He has made several contributions to the field of deep learning.Goodfellow obtained his B.S. and M.S. in computer science from Stanford University and his Ph.D. in machine learning from the Université de Montréal, under the supervision of Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville. After graduation, Goodfellow joined Google as part of the Google Brain research team. Later he left Google to join the newly founded OpenAI institute. He returned to Google Research in March 2017. Wikipedia