John Shawe-Taylor
| John Shawe-Taylor | |
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| Born |
1953 (age 62–63) Cheltenham |
| Fields | Computer science, Statistics |
| Institutions |
University of Southampton University College London |
| Alma mater |
Imperial College London Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Thesis | Regularity and Transitivity in Graphs (1985) |
| Doctoral advisor | Norman L. Biggs |
| Known for | textbooks on statistical learning theory and support vector machines |
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John Stewart Shawe-Taylor (born 1953) 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
He has written with Nello Cristianini two books on the theory of support vector machines and kernel methods:
- An introduction to support vector machines N.C. and J. S.T. Cambridge University Press, 2000.
- 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
He attended Shrewsbury School and graduated from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
External links
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