[iainmerrick]

Yes he did -- He co-authored an influential deep learning paper in 2012: https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub40565

I think his contribution at that time was mainly clever ways to drastically scale up existing neural net techniques, but just scaling things up 100x or 1000x seems to be a large part of the magic of deep learning.

[polishTar]

And not only that. Even his undergrad thesis back from 1990 was on neural nets. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I1fs4sczbCaACzA9XwxR3DiuXVt...