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  "Born": "1987",
  "Nationality": "American",
  "Fields": "Machine learning, deep learning, computer security",
  "Institutions": "Google Brain (2015-2016); OpenAI (2016-2017); Google (2017-2019); Apple (2019-2022); Google DeepMind (2022-2025)",
  "Doctoral advisor": "Yoshua Bengio; Aaron Courville",
  "Known for": "Inventing generative adversarial networks; adversarial examples; the Deep Learning textbook",
  "Notable works": "\"Generative Adversarial Nets\" (2014); \"Explaining and Harnessing Adversarial Examples\" (2015); Deep Learning (2016)",
  "Awards": "MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 (2017); Foreign Policy 100 Global Thinkers (2019)"
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