John Shawe-Taylor

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John Shawe-Taylor
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Fields Computer science, Statistics
Institutions University College London
Doctoral advisor Tomaž Pisanski
Known for textbooks on statistical learning theory and support vector machines

Professor John S. Shawe-Taylor is Director of the Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning at University College, London (UK). His main research area is statistical learning theory.

Publications [edit]

He has written with Nello Cristianini two books on the theory of support vector machines and kernel methods:

  1. An introduction to support vector machines N.C. and J. S.T. Cambridge University Press, 2000.
  2. Kernel methods for pattern analysis J. S.T and N.C. Cambridge University Press, 2004.

He has published research in neural networks, machine learning, and graph theory.

Schooling [edit]

He attended Shrewsbury School and graduated from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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