Russ Salakhutdinov
Ruslan "Russ" Salakhutdinov is a Canadian researcher working in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
He specializes in deep learning, probabilistic graphical models, and large-scale optimization.[1]
Life
His doctoral advisor was the legendary Geoff Hinton.[2]
He is well known for having developed Bayesian Program Learning.[3]
Career
He is a professor of computer science at the Carnegie Mellon University.[4]
Since 2009, he's published at least 42 papers on machine learning.[5]
In 2016, he joined Apple as its director of AI research.[6]
Awards
He is a CIFAR fellow.[7]