A pioneering data scientist, researcher, and entrepreneur who has significantly contributed to the democratisation of AI, Jeremy Howard founded fast.ai: a research institute dedicated to making deep learning more accessible. He teaches introductory courses and develops software, such as the fast.ai library, which has over 25,000 stars on GitHub
He developed the ULMFiT algorithm, which pioneered transfer learning and fine-tuning techniques in natural language processing. This work contributed to the development of modern language models like GPT.
Howard was the president and chief scientist of Kaggle, where he was the top-ranked participant in international machine learning competitions. He also founded Enlitic, the first company to apply deep learning to medicine, recognised as one of the world’s top 50 smartest companies by MIT Tech Review.
Through fast.ai, Howard has made deep learning accessible to millions. His courses have been watched by over 6 million people. His approach emphasises practical learning by doing rather than theoretical foundations.