Yaser Abu-Mostafa

Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa
Born (1957-03-03) March 3, 1957
Nationality Egyptian American
Alma mater California Institute of Technology
Known for Machine learning
Scientific career
Fields Computer Science
Electrical Engineering
Institutions California Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor Demetri Psaltis
Doctoral students Malik Magdon-Ismail

Yaser Said Abu-Mostafa (Arabic: ياسر سعيد أبو مصطفى) is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology and Chairman of Machine Learning Consultants LLC.[1] He is known for his research and educational activities in the area of machine learning.

Academic biography

Abu-Mostafa studied at Cairo University, where he earned the BSc degree in 1979. He earned the MS degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1981 and the PhD degree at the California Institute of Technology in 1983. He has been on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology since 1983.[2]

In 1987, Abu-Mostafa cofounded the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), a major machine learning meeting. He is known for his recent textbook on machine learning.[3] He has also developed an online course about machine learning.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Machine Learning Consultants LLC
  2. ↑ Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa at the Caltech Directory
  3. ↑ Learning from Data, AMLBook, 2012 External link in |title= (help)
  4. ↑ Learning from Data, online course at California Institute of Technology
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