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David Meir Blei is an American computer scientist specializing in machine learning and Bayesian statistics .

Blei graduated from Brown University with a bachelor's degree in 1997 and received his doctorate in computer science (Probabilistic models of texts and images) in 2004 with Michael I. Jordan at the University of California, Berkeley . He then was a post-doctoral student with John Lafferty at Carnegie Mellon University (machine learning department) until 2006 . In 2006 he became Assistant Professor and 2011 Associate Professor at Princeton University and in 2014 Professor at Columbia University .

He founded the research area of topic modeling , algorithms within the framework of probabilistic modeling, which allow the thematic structure of large document collections to be captured. This enables the analysis, organization and topic summary of digital archives with a scalability to billions of documents, for example for e-mail archives , image archives, processing of natural languages, social networks, in robotics or computer-aided biology and the social and human sciences . He introduced the simplest topic model in 2003 with Michael Jordan and Andrew Ng (LDA, Latent Dirichlet Allocation ).

In 2013 he received the ACM Prize in Computing (ACM Infosys Award) for contributions to the theory and practice of probabilistic modeling and Bayesian machine learning . In 2015 he became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and in 2017 a Guggenheim Fellow . In 2011 he received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

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  • with Michael Jordan, Andrew Ng: Latent Dirichlet Allocation, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Volume 3, 2003, pp. 993-1022
  • Probabilistic topic models, Communications of the ACM, Volume 55, April 2012, p. 77
  • with Alp Kucukelbir, Jon D. McAuliffe: Variational Inference, a review for statisticians, Arxiv 2016

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Blei in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Lead, david
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lead, David Meir (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century