Michael I Jordan

Michael Irwin Jordan (born February 25, 1956 in Maryland ) is an American computer scientist and one of the leading specialists in the field of machine learning . He is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley .

life and work

He studied psychology from Louisiana State University with a bachelor's degree magna cum laude in 1978 and mathematics from Arizona State University with a master's degree in statistics in 1980 and received his PhD in cognitive science from the University of California, San Diego in 1985 with David Rumelhart ( The Learning of Representations for Sequential Performance ). There he was a member of the PDP group. He was a post-doctoral student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst . In 1988 he became Assistant Professor, 1992 Associate Professor and 1997 Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 1998 Professor at the University of California, Berkeley . There he is Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Faculty of Statistics.

He deals with machine learning, where he applied statistical methods, neural networks, kernel machines and applications in distributed computing, natural language processing, signal processing, non-parametric Bayesian statistics, applications of statistics in genetics and probabilistic graphic models (such as Bayesian networks in machine learning). With David Blei (his PhD student) and Andrew Ng , he introduced Latent Dirichlet Allocation in 2002 . With Jeff Elman , he pioneered Recurrent Neural Networks in the 1980s.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the National Academy of Engineering , the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2011). He is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery , the AAAI, the SIAM , the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), and the IEEE, and a member of the International Statistical Institute . In 2006 he received the IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award, in 2009 the ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award , received a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation and gave the 2011 Neyman Lecture of the IMS. In 2015 he received the Rumelhart Prize . He was Medaillon Lecturer at the IMS and received the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence in 2016 . In 2012 he was Chaire d'Excellence of the Fondation Sciences Mathèmatiques de Paris. In 2018 he was plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians ( Dynamical, symplectic and stochastic perspectives on gradient-based optimization ). Jordan was awarded the John von Neumann Medal for 2020 .

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael I. Jordan in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)