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Michael I. Jordan
The defining intellectual bridge between computer science and rigorous statistics.
Organizations
UC BerkeleyMIT
Major Achievements
- •Popularized Bayesian networks, variational inference, and formalized the mathematical rigor of machine learning.
- •Mentored an unparalleled generation of AI superstars (including Andrew Ng, Yoshua Bengio, and David Blei).
- •Consistently cautioned against the hype of 'Artificial Intelligence', preferring the term 'Statistical Machine Learning'.
Key Papers
- Latent Dirichlet Allocation
David M. Blei, Andrew Y. Ng, Michael I. Jordan · Journal of Machine Learning Research · 2003