Some labs and research groups that are actively working on deep learning:
University of Toronto - Machine Learning Group (Geoff Hinton, Rich Zemel, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Brendan Frey, Radford Neal)
Université de Montréal - Lisa Lab (Yoshua Bengio, Pascal Vincent, Aaron Courville, Roland Memisevic)
New York University – Yann Lecun‘s and Rob Fergus‘ group
Stanford University – Andrew Ng‘s group
UBC – Nando de Freitas‘s group
Google Research – Jeff Dean, Samy Bengio, Jason Weston, Marc’Aurelio Ranzato, Dumitru Erhan, Quoc Le et al
Microsoft Research – Li Deng et al
SUPSI – IDSIA (Schmidhuber’s group)
UC Berkeley – Bruno Olshausen‘s group
University of Washington – Pedro Domingos‘ group
IDIAP Research Institute - Ronan Collobert‘s group
University of California Merced – Miguel A. Carreira-Perpinan‘s group
University of Helsinki - Aapo Hyvärinen‘s Neuroinformatics group
Université de Sherbrooke – Hugo Larochelle‘s group
University of Guelph – Graham Taylor‘s group
University of Michigan – Honglak Lee‘s group
Technical University of Berlin – Klaus-Robert Muller‘s group
Baidu – Kai Yu‘s group
Aalto University – Juha Karhunen‘s group
U. Amsterdam – Max Welling‘s group
U. California Irvine – Pierre Baldi‘s group
Ghent University – Benjamin Shrauwen‘s group
University of Tennessee – Itamar Arel‘s group
IBM Research – Brian Kingsbury et al
University of Bonn – Sven Behnke’s group
Gatsby Unit @ University College London – Maneesh Sahani, Yee-Whye Teh, Peter Dayan
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