Yoav Freund

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Yoav Freund
Fields Computer Science
Institutions University of California, San Diego
Alma mater University of California, Santa Cruz
Doctoral advisor Manfred K. Warmuth, David Haussler
Known for AdaBoost
Notable awards Gödel prize (2003)

Yoav Freund is a researcher and professor at the University of California, San Diego who mainly works on machine learning, probability theory and related fields and applications.

From his homepage:

My main area of research is computational learning theory and the related areas in probability theory, information theory, statistics and pattern recognition. I work on applications of machine learning algorithms in bio-informatics, computer vision, network routing and high-performance computing.

He is probably best-known for his work on the AdaBoost algorithm, a meta-learning algorithm which is used to combine many "weak" learning machines to create a more robust one. He received the Gödel prize in 2003 for his work on AdaBoost with Robert Schapire.

Professor Freund is a Talpiot program graduate.

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