Nando de Freitas

Nando de Freitas
Born Zimbabwe
Fields Computer science
Institutions Oxford University
Doctoral advisor Andrew Gee, Mahesan Niranjan, Christophe Andrieu, and Arnaud Doucet
Known for Machine Learning
Notable awards Distinguished Paper Award at the International Joint Conference on Artificial intelligence (2013), Charles A. McDowell Award for Excellence in Research (2012), Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems Young Researcher Award (2010)

Nando de Freitas is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford.[1] He is also a Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford.[2] De Freitas is noted[3] as an authority in the field of machine learning, and in particular in the subfields of neural networks, Bayesian inference and Bayesian optimization, and deep learning.[4]

Biography

De Freitas was born in Zimbabwe. He did his undergraduate studies and MSc at the University of the Witwatersrand, and his PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge. From 2001, he was a Professor at the University of British Columbia, before joining the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford in 2013 and additionaly works for Google's DeepMind.[5]

Awards and Recognition

De Freitas has been recognised for his contributions to machine learning through the following awards:

References

  1. ↑ http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/nando.defreitas/
  2. ↑ http://www.linacre.ox.ac.uk/Fellows
  3. ↑ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nzEluBwAAAAJ
  4. ↑ https://audioboo.fm/boos/1808330-deep-learning-enabling-computers-to-understand-humans?utm_campaign=detailpage&utm_content=retweet&utm_medium=social&utm_source=googleplusshare
  5. ↑ Katherine Gorman and Ryan Adams. "Solving Intelligence and Machine Learning Fundamentals". http://www.thetalkingmachines.com/ (Podcast). Talking Machines. Event occurs at 11:30. External link in |website= (help)
  6. ↑ http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/761-full.html
  7. ↑ http://ijcai13.org/program/distinguished_papers
  8. ↑ https://www.cs.ubc.ca/award/2013/02/charles-mcdowell-award
  9. ↑ http://www.research.ubc.ca/vpri/faculty-research-award-recipients
  10. ↑ http://www.cs.nyu.edu/webapps/spring2013/colloquia/150
  11. ↑ http://www.cifar.ca/nando-de-freitas

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