Name Zoubin Ghahramani Residence United Kingdom | Fields Machine learning | |
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Institutions University of CambridgeCarnegie Mellon UniversityUniversity College LondonUniversity of Toronto Alma mater University of PennsylvaniaMassachusetts Institute of Technology Thesis Computation and Psychophysics of Sensorimotor Integration (1995) Doctoral students Matthew BealShakir MohamedPedro OrtegaRyan TurnerJurgen Van Gael Known for Graphical modelsVariational BayesComputational neuroscience Doctoral advisor | ||
Bayesian inference 1 zoubin ghahramani mlss 2013 t bingen
Zoubin Ghahramani FRS (Persian: ژوبین قهرمانی; born 8 February 1970) is a British-Iranian researcher and Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He holds joint appointments at Carnegie Mellon University, University College London and the Alan Turing Institute. and has been a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge since 2009. He is also Chief Scientist at Uber and Deputy Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence.
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- Education
- Research and career
- Awards and honours
- References
Bayesian inference 2 zoubin ghahramani mlss 2013 t bingen
Education
Ghahramani was educated at the American School of Madrid in Spain and the University of Pennsylvania where he was awarded a double major degree in Cognitive Science and Computer Science in 1990. He obtained his PhD from the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, supervised by Michael I. Jordan and Tomaso Poggio.
Research and career
Following his PhD, Ghahramani moved to the University of Toronto in 1995 as an ITRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Artificial Intelligence Lab, working with Geoffrey Hinton. From 1998 to 2005, he was a member of the faculty at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London.
Ghahramani has made significant contributions in the areas of Bayesian machine learning (particularly variational methods for approximate Bayesian inference), as well as graphical models and computational neuroscience. His current research focuses on nonparametric Bayesian modelling and statistical machine learning. He has also worked on artificial intelligence, information retrieval, bioinformatics and statistics which provide the mathematical foundations for handling uncertainty, making decisions, and designing learning systems. He has published over 200 papers, receiving over 30,000 citations (an h-index of 74).
He co-founded Geometric Intelligence company in 2014, with Gary Marcus, Doug Bemis, and Ken Stanley. After Uber's acqusition of the startup he transferred to Uber's A.I. Labs in 2016. Just after four months he became Chief Scientist, replacing Gary Marcus.
Awards and honours
Ghahramani was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. His certificate of election reads:
Zoubin Ghahramani is a world leader in the field of machine learning, significantly advancing the state-of-the-art in algorithms that can learn from data. He is known in particular for fundamental contributions to probabilistic modeling and Bayesian nonparametric approaches to machine learning systems, and to the development of approximate variational inference algorithms for scalable learning. He is one of the pioneers of semi-supervised learning methods, active learning algorithms, and sparse Gaussian processes. His development of novel infinite dimensional nonparametric models, such as the infinite latent feature model, has been highly influential.