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Name
  
Ben Taskar

Alma mater
  
Doctoral advisor
  


Known for
  
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.

References

Ben Taskar Wikipedia


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