Sutskever attended the Open University of Israel between 2000 and 2002.[15] After that, he moved to Canada with his family and attended the University of Toronto in Ontario.
From the University of Toronto, Sutskever received a Bachelor of Science in mathematics in 2005,[15][16][6][17] a Master of Science in computer science in 2007,[16][18] and a Doctor of Philosophy in computer science in 2013.[3][19][20] His doctoral supervisor was Geoffrey Hinton.[2]
In 2012, Sutskever built AlexNet in collaboration with Hinton and Alex Krizhevsky. To support the computing demands of AlexNet, Sutskever bought many GTX 580 GPUs online.[21]
