Education
Ivakhnenko graduated in 1938 from the Leningrad Institute of Electric Engineering.
Ivakhnenko graduated in 1938 from the Leningrad Institute of Electric Engineering.
He was an Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. In 1944 he joined the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kiev. From 1964 he was Head of the Combined Control Systems Division of the Glushkov Institute of Cyberneticsuk at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Ivakhnenko developed the Group Method of Data Handling (GMDH), which is a method of inductive statistical learning.
Sometimes he is mentioned as "father of Deep Learning". He was awarded:
Order of Friendship of Peoples
Medal "Foreign Distinguished Labour"
Medal "Foreign Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Two State Prizes of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.