Russ Salakhutdinov
Ruslan "Russ" Salakhutdinov | |
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 Salakhutdinov in 2016. |
Ruslan "Russ" Salakhutdinov (Russian: Руслан Салахутдинов) is a Canadian researcher of Tatar origin working in the field of artificial intelligence.
He specializes in deep learning, probabilistic graphical models, and large-scale optimization.[1]
Life
Salakhutdinov's doctoral advisor was Geoffrey Hinton.[2]
He is well known for having developed Bayesian Program Learning.[2]
Career
Salakhutdinov is a professor of computer science at the Carnegie Mellon University.[3]
Since 2009, he has published at least 42 papers on machine learning.[4]
His research has been funded by Google, Microsoft and Samsung.[5] In 2016, Salakhutdinov joined Apple as its director of AI research.[1]
Awards
References
- ^ a b "Apple's latest hire could signal a big shift in the company's approach to AI". Retrieved 18 May 2017.
- ^ a b http://helldesign.net. "When machines learn like humans - KurzweilAI". www.kurzweilai.net. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
{{cite web}}: External link in|last= - ^ Times, Tech (18 October 2016). "Apple Taps Carnegie Mellon AI Expert Ruslan Salakhutdinov: Siri Getting Beefed Up?". Retrieved 18 May 2017.
- ^ "Apple hires its first director of AI research". Retrieved 18 May 2017.
- ^ "Apple Hires Carnegie Mellon AI Academic to Push Machine Learning". 17 October 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2017 – via www.bloomberg.com.
- ^ "Deep learning: Changing the playing field of artificial intelligence - MaRS". Retrieved 18 May 2017.
External links
- Official website
- Russ Salakhutdinov publications indexed by Google Scholar
