Daphne Koller
| Daphne Koller | |
|---|---|
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| Born | August 27, 1968 |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | Israel |
| Fields | Artificial Intelligence |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Alma mater |
Stanford University (1993, PhD) Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1986, MS) |
| Thesis | From Knowledge to Belief (1994) |
| Doctoral advisor | Joseph Halpern |
| Doctoral students | Eran Segal, Lise Getoor |
| Known for |
Machine Learning MOOC (Coursera) |
| Notable awards |
IJCAI Computers and Thought Award (2001) MacArthur Fellow (2004) |
Daphne Koller (born August 27, 1968) is an Israeli-American Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University[1] and a MacArthur Fellowship recipient. She's also one of the founders of Coursera, an online education platform. Her general research area is artificial intelligence[2][3] and its applications in the biomedical sciences.[4][5] Koller was featured in a 2004 article by MIT Technology Review titled "10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change Your World"[6] concerning the topic of Bayesian machine learning.
Life
She received a bachelor's degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1985, at the age of 17, and a master's degree from the same institution in 1986.[7]
Koller completed her Ph.D. at Stanford in 1993 under the supervision of Joseph Halpern, did postdoctoral research at University of California, Berkeley from 1993 to 1995,[8] and joined the faculty of the Stanford University Computer Science Department in 1995. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2004, was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2011 and was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014.
In April 2008, Daphne Koller was awarded the first ever $150,000 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in Computing Sciences.[9]
In 2009, she published a textbook on probabilistic graphical models together with Nir Friedman.[10] She offered a free online course on the subject starting in February 2012.[11]
She and Andrew Ng, a fellow Stanford computer science professor in the AI lab, launched Coursera in 2012.
She is married to Dan Avida.[7]
Honors and awards
- 2004. MacArthur Fellow
Selected works
Books
- 2009. probabilistic graphical models. (with Nir Friedman). MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262013192
References
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 "Daphne Koller: What we're learning from online education", TED talk, June 2012 | |
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Daphne Koller, Co-Founder of Coursera - February 20, 2013, Darden School of Business |
- ↑ Koller Home page at Stanford
- ↑ New York Times Profile of Daphne Koller "Pursuing the Next Level of Artificial Intelligence"
- ↑ Daphne Koller's publications in DBLP
- ↑ Daphne Koller's publications in PubMed
- ↑ Segal, E.; Shapira, M.; Regev, A.; Pe'er, D.; Botstein, D.; Koller, D.; Friedman, N. (2003). "Module networks: Identifying regulatory modules and their condition-specific regulators from gene expression data". Nature Genetics 34 (2): 166–176. doi:10.1038/ng1165. PMID 12740579.
- ↑ "10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change Your World", MIT Technology Review, February 2004
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Profile details: Daphne Koller". Marquis Who's Who. Retrieved August 7, 2012.
- ↑ Daphne Koller's Academic Genealogy
- ↑ $150,000 Prize to Stanford’s Koller for Groundbreaking Work in Making Computers Intelligent
- ↑ Daphne Koller and Nir Friedman (2009). Probabilistic Graphical Models. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-01319-3.
- ↑ Probabilistic Graphical Models - Coursera class
External links
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Media related to Daphne Koller at Wikimedia Commons - Daphne Koller's homepage
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