François Chollet

François Chollet (French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʃoˈlɛ]; born 20 October 1989) is a French software engineer and artificial intelligence researcher currently working at Google. Chollet is the creator of the Keras deep-learning library, released in 2015, and a main contributor to the TensorFlow machine learning framework. His research focuses on computer vision, the application of machine learning to formal reasoning, abstraction,[2] and how to achieve greater generality in artificial intelligence.[3]

François Chollet
François Chollet in 2020
Born (1989-10-20) October 20, 1989[1]
NationalityFrench
EducationENSTA Paris (MEng)
Years active2012–present
TitleGoogle Senior Staff Engineer
Engineering career
DisciplineArtificial Intelligence
Employer(s)Google
ProjectsKeras, TensorFlow, ARC Challenge
AwardsGlobal Swiss AI Award
Websitefchollet.com

Education and career

Chollet graduated with a Master of Engineering from ENSTA Paris a school of the Polytechnic Institute of Paris in 2012[4] and started working at Google in 2015. His papers have been published at major conferences in the field, including the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).[5] He is the author of Xception: Deep Learning with Depthwise Separable Convolutions,[6] which is among the top ten most cited papers in CVPR proceedings.[7]

Books

Chollet is the author of Deep Learning with Python,[8] the co-author with Joseph J. Allaire of Deep Learning With R, and the creator of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) Challenge.[9]

Awards

On December 1, 2021, Chollet won the Global Swiss AI Award for breakthroughs in AI.[10][11]

Bibliography
  • Chollet, François (2017). Deep Learning with Python. Manning Publications. ISBN 9781617294433.
  • Chollet, François; Allaire, J. J. (2018). Deep Learning With R. Manning Publications. ISBN 9781617295546.
  • Chollet, François (2019). On the Measure of Intelligence. arXiv:1911.01547.
  • Chollet, François (2021). Deep Learning with Python Second Edition. Manning Publications. ISBN 9781617296864.

References
  1. Chollet.
  2. Chollet, Francois. "Google Cloud BrandVoice: Deep Learning Q&A: What's Coming Next With Francois Chollet". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
  3. "To Really Judge an AI's Smarts, Give it One of These IQ Tests". IEEE Spectrum. 2021-02-02. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
  4. "EAUX D'ICI, EAUX DE LÀ : c'est fini..." concours-nouvelles.ensta-paris.fr. Archived from the original on 2021-10-16. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  5. Ray, Tiernan. "A quick tour of what you missed at the NeurIPS 2020 AI conference". ZDNet. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
  6. "Xception: Deep Learning With Depthwise Separable Convolutions". CVPR 2017. Retrieved 2021-11-07.
  7. "Google Scholar: top 100 CVPR publications". Google Scholar. Retrieved 2021-11-07.
  8. "Top Deep Learning Books to Read in 2021". Programming Insider. 2021-04-27. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
  9. "Abstraction and Reasoning Challenge". kaggle.com. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  10. "François Chollet, Google: "On aura bientôt entraîné les modèles sur tous les textes humainement disponibles"". ICTJournal. Retrieved 2022-02-15.
  11. "Wie man künstliche Intelligenz messen kann - und warum das wichtig ist". Netzwoche. Retrieved 2022-02-15.
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