14 Facts About Zoubin Ghahramani

Zoubin Ghahramani FRS is a British-Iranian researcher and Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge.

Zoubin Ghahramani holds joint appointments at University College London and the Alan Turing Institute.

Zoubin Ghahramani was the Chief Scientist of Uber from 2016 until 2020.

Zoubin Ghahramani joined Google Brain in 2020 as senior research director.

Zoubin Ghahramani is Deputy Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence.

Zoubin Ghahramani has made significant contributions in the areas of Bayesian machine learning, as well as graphical models and computational neuroscience.

Zoubin Ghahramani has worked on artificial intelligence, information retrieval, bioinformatics and statistics which provide the mathematical foundations for handling uncertainty, making decisions, and designing learning systems.

Zoubin Ghahramani has published over 200 papers, receiving over 80,000 citations.

Zoubin Ghahramani co-founded Geometric Intelligence in 2014, with Gary Marcus, Doug Bemis, and Ken Stanley, which was acquired by Uber in 2016.

Zoubin Ghahramani was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2015.

Zoubin Ghahramani is a world leader in the field of machine learning, significantly advancing the state-of-the-art in algorithms that can learn from data.

Zoubin Ghahramani is known in particular for fundamental contributions to probabilistic modeling and Bayesian nonparametric approaches to machine learning systems, and to the development of approximate variational inference algorithms for scalable learning.

Zoubin Ghahramani is one of the pioneers of semi-supervised learning methods, active learning algorithms, and sparse Gaussian processes.

Zoubin Ghahramani was awarded the Royal Society Milner Award in 2021 in recognition of 'his fundamental contributions to probabilistic machine learning'.