Citizenship Canadian Residence Toronto, Canada Role Professor | Name Radford Neal Doctoral advisor Geoffrey Hinton | |
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Born September 12, 1956 (age 67) ( 1956-09-12 ) Alma mater University of Calgary, University of Toronto Thesis Bayesian Learning for Neural Networks (1995) Books Bayesian learning for neural networks Education University of Toronto (1995), University of Calgary (1980), University of Calgary (1977) Fields Statistics, Machine learning, Artificial intelligence | ||
Institutions University of Toronto | ||
Radford M. Neal is a professor at the Department of Statistics and Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, where he holds a Research Chair in statistics and machine learning. He studied computer science at the University of Calgary (B.Sc. 1977, M.Sc. 1980) and at the University of Toronto (Ph.D. 1995). He has made great contributions in the area of machine learning and statistics, where he is particular well known for his work on Markov chain Monte Carlo, error correcting codes and bayesian learning for neural networks. He is also known for his blog and the developer of pqR: a new version of the R interpreter.
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