Loading timeline…
20122010s
Ruslan Salakhutdinov
Hinton student who worked on deep belief networks and dropout, and later led AI research at Apple.
Organizations
Carnegie Mellon UniversityUniversity of TorontoApple
Major Achievements
- •Co-authored the dropout work that became a standard defence against overfitting in deep networks.
- •Contributed to deep belief networks and deep Boltzmann machines under Geoffrey Hinton.
- •Developed neural methods for collaborative filtering and multimodal learning.
- •Served as Apple's director of AI research before returning to Carnegie Mellon.
Key Papers
- Dropout: A Simple Way to Prevent Neural Networks from Overfitting
Nitish Srivastava et al. · Journal of Machine Learning Research · 2014