Forrest N. Iandola is an American computer scientist. He earned a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from

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in 2016, advised by Kurt Keutzer. As part of his dissertation he co-authored SqueezeNet, a

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for image classification that is optimized for

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s and other mobile devices. Iandola and Keutzer went on to co-found a company called DeepScale. The firm squeezes deep neural networks onto low-cost automotive grade processors for use in

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acquired DeepScale in 2019. In 2020, he co-authored SqueezeBERT, an efficient neural network for

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