This is not just another deep learning book. Modern Deep Learning Foundations is a complete, hands-on guide for building, training, and deploying neural networks - written specifically for engineers who care about real-world systems, not just theoretical results.
Dr. Barak Or is an AI researcher, entrepreneur, and educator, with a PhD in ML for navigation systems, and a professional background that spans startups, deeptech technologies, and teaching at the Google-Reichman Tech School. He holds dual degrees in aeronautical engineering and economics & management from the Technion and has trained thousands of engineers across domains.
What's Inside:
Clear explanations of modern architectures: CNNs, RNNs, LSTMs, Transformers, Autoencoders, and more
In-depth coverage of training essentials: loss functions, backpropagation, optimization (AdamW, Lion, Adafactor), mixed precision, and regularization
Practical tools for industrial use: saving and versioning models, serving with FastAPI, and deploying to the cloud with full PyTorch examples
Lessons on explainability (SHAP, Grad-CAM), transfer learning, tabular data, time series, and working with real-world constraints
A closing roadmap for becoming a deep learning engineer who can ship systems
Each lesson is concise - filled with illustrations, examples, and engineering principles designed to build real intuition.
Bonus: This book also serves as the official companion to the ArtificialGate course platform, used by enterprise teams and academic programs worldwide. All content is designed to support learners across technical backgrounds, and available in multiple languages.