Name Ben Taskar | ||
Books Determinantal Point Processes for Machine Learning Fields Computer Science, Machine learning Institution University of Pennsylvania, University of Washington |
Celebration of the life of Ben Taskar
Ben Taskar (March 3, 1977 – November 18, 2013) was a professor and researcher in the area of machine learning and applications to computational linguistics and computer vision. He was a Magerman Term Associate Professor for Computer and Information Science at University of Pennsylvania. He co-directed PRiML: Penn Research in Machine Learning, a joint venture between the School of Engineering and Wharton. He was also a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Annenberg Center for Public Policy. At the University of Washington, he held the Boeing Professorship.
He was the first person to define Max-margin Markov networks and a pioneer in statistical relational learning.
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