Carlos Guestrin

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Carlos Ernesto Guestrin
Born1975
Argentina
Alma mater University of São Paulo
Stanford University
Known for XGBoost
Scientific career
Fields Computer science
Doctoral advisor Daphne Koller

Carlos Ernesto Guestrin is a Brazilian computer scientist and a professor at Stanford University. He is best known for his contributions to scalable machine learning algorithms. [1]

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Biography

Guestrin was born in Argentina in 1975, but went on to be raised in Brazil. [2] He received a Mechatronics Engineer degree from the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo, [2] and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University, advised by Daphne Koller. [3] Guestrin went on to work as professor at Carnegie Mellon University (2004 to 2012), the University of Washington (2012-2021), and Stanford University (Since 2021). [4] He was a co-founder of Turi (formerly GraphLab), a machine learning startup that was acquired by Apple Inc. in 2016. [5] After selling the startup, Guestrin worked at Apple as the Senior Director of Machine Learning and AI. [6]

Guestrin was involved in the creation of various popular machine learning libraries and methods, including the XGBoost library, [7] the LIME technique for explainable machine learning, [8] and the GraphLab project for scalable machine learning. [9]

Honors and Awards

Guestin has received multiple honors and awards, including:

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References

  1. ↑ Chen, Tianqi; Guestrin, Carlos (2016-08-13). "XGBoost: A Scalable Tree Boosting System". Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. KDD '16. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 785–794. doi:10.1145/2939672.2939785. ISBN   978-1-4503-4232-2.
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  9. ↑ Low, Yucheng; Gonzalez, Joseph E.; Kyrola, Aapo; Bickson, Danny; Guestrin, Carlos E.; Hellerstein, Joseph (2014-08-09), GraphLab: A New Framework For Parallel Machine Learning, arXiv: 1408.2041
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