Some labs and research groups that are actively working on deep learning:

• University of Toronto – Machine Learning Group (Geoffrey Hinton, Rich Zemel, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Brendan Frey, Radford Neal)

• Université de Montréal – MILA Lab (Yoshua Bengio, Pascal Vincent, Aaron Courville, Roland Memisevic)

• New York University – Yann Lecun, Rob Fergus, David Sontag and Kyunghyun Cho

• Stanford University – Andrew Ng, Christopher Manning‘s, Fei-fei Li‘s group

• University of Oxford – Deep learning group, Nando de Freitas and Phil Blunsom, Andrew Zisserman

• Google Research – Jeff Dean, Geoffrey Hinton, Samy Bengio, Ilya Sutskever, Ian Goodfellow, Oriol Vinyals, Dumitru Erhan, Quoc Le et al

• Google DeepMind – Alex Graves, Karol Gregor, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Andriy Mnih, Guillaume Desjardins, Xavier Glorot, Razvan Pascanu, Volodymyr Mnih et al

• Facebook AI Research(FAIR) – Yann Lecun, Rob Fergus, Jason Weston, Antoine Bordes, Soumit Chintala, Leon Bouttou, Ronan Collobert, Yann Dauphin et al.

• Twitter’s Deep Learning Group – Hugo Larochelle, Ryan Adams, Clement Farabet et al

• Microsoft Research – Li Deng et al

• SUPSI – IDSIA (Jurgen Schmidhuber‘s group)

• UC Berkeley – Bruno Olshausen‘s group, Trevor Darrell‘s group, Pieter Abbeel

• UCLA – Alan Yuille

• University of Washington – Pedro Domingos‘ group

• IDIAP Research Institute – Ronan Collobert‘s group

• University of California Merced – Miguel A. Carreira-Perpinan‘s group

• University of Helsinki – Aapo Hyvärinen‘s Neuroinformatics group

• Université de Sherbrooke – Hugo Larochelle‘s group

• University of Guelph – Graham Taylor‘s group

• University of Michigan – Honglak Lee‘s group

• Technical University of Berlin – Klaus-Robert Muller‘s group

• Baidu – Kai Yu‘s and Andrew Ng’s group

• Aalto University – Juha Karhunen and Tapani Raiko group

• U. Amsterdam – Max Welling‘s group

• CMU – Chris Dyer

• U. California Irvine – Pierre Baldi‘s group

• Ghent University – Benjamin Shrauwen‘s group

• University of Tennessee – Itamar Arel‘s group

• IBM Research – Brian Kingsbury et al

• University of Bonn – Sven Behnke’s group

• Gatsby Unit @ University College London – Maneesh Sahani, Peter Dayan

• Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab @ University of Colorado Boulder

• DBsystem group @ National University of Singapore