Ilya Sutskever is a renowned computer scientist and expert in artificial intelligence. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the same institution. Additionally, he studied Computer Science at The Open University of Israel. He has worked with top tech companies such as Google and co-founded DNNResearch and OpenAI, where he is currently the Chief Scientist. Before this, he was a Postdoc at Stanford University.

Sutskever has contributed significantly to the field of AI, particularly in developing techniques such as sequence to sequence learning that enabled breakthroughs in natural language processing as well as image and speech recognition. He has been named among MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35 and Forbes' 30 Under 30 in Science.