Daphne Koller

Koller during the WEF 2013

Daphne Koller (born August 27, 1968 in Jerusalem ) is an Israeli computer scientist.

Live and act

Koller studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a bachelor's degree in 1985 and a master's degree in 1986 and received his doctorate from Stanford University under Joseph Halpern in 1993 (From Knowledge to Belief) . As a post-doctoral student , she was at the University of California, Berkeley and, from 1995, at Stanford University, where she is currently Professor of Computer Science.

It deals with artificial intelligence , probabilistic graphic models , machine learning ( Bayesian networks ) and online learning. Her research in artificial intelligence using statistical ( Bayesian ) techniques had made her known in the 2000s and led to advances in biomedicine and genetics, web search, robotics (autonomous driving) and traffic analysis in networks. In 2012, together with Andrew Ng , she founded the US company Coursera , which specializes in the provision of massive open online courses . She served as CEO of Coursera and moved to biotech company Calico as Chief Computing Officer in 2016 .

In 1996 she received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellow ). In 2001 she received the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award . In 2004 she became a MacArthur Fellow . In 2011 she became a member of the National Academy of Engineering and in 2014 a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2008 she received the ACM Infosys Award . In 2013, Time Magazine named her 100 Most Influential People . For 2019 she was awarded the ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award .

Daphne Koller 2009

with M. Sahami: Toward optimal feature selection, Stanford InfoLab 1996
with M. Sahami: Hierarchically classifying documents using very few words, Stanford InfoLab 1997
with N. Friedman, L. Getoor, A. Pfeffer: Learning probabilistic relational models, IJCAI, Volume 99, 1999, pp. 1300-1309
with S. Tong: Support vector machine active learning with applications to text classification, Journal of machine learning research, Volume 2, 2001, pp. 45–66
with M. Montemerlo, S. Thrun, B. Wegbreit: FastSLAM: A factored solution to the simultaneous localization and mapping problem, Aaai / iaai, 2002, pp. 593-598
with M. Montemerlo, S. Thrun, B. Wegbreit: FastSLAM 2.0: An improved particle filtering algorithm for simultaneous localization and mapping that provably converges, IJCAI, 2003, pp. 1151–1156
with E. Segal, M. Shapira. A. Regev. D. Pe'er, D. Bostein, N. Friedman: Module networks: identifying regulatory modules and their condition-specific regulators from gene expression data, Nature genetics, Volume 34, 2003, pp. 166-176
with JM Stuart, E. Segal, SK Kim: A gene-coexpression network for global discovery of conserved genetic modules, Science, Volume 302, 2003, pp. 249-255
with B. Taskar, C. Guestrin: Max-margin Markov networks, Advances in neural information processing systems, 2004, pp. 25-32
with BE Stranger a. a .: Population genomics of human gene expression, Nature genetics, Volume 39, 2007, pp. 1217-1224
with Nir Friedman : Probabilistic graphical models, MIT Press 2009