Nando de Freitas

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Nando de Freitas
Born
Alma mater University of the Witwatersrand, Trinity College, Cambridge
Known for Machine Learning
Scientific career
Fields Computer science
Institutions University of British Columbia, Oxford University

Nando de Freitas is a researcher in the field of machine learning, and in particular in the subfields of neural networks, Bayesian inference and Bayesian optimization, and deep learning. [1]

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Biography

De Freitas was born in Zimbabwe. He did his undergraduate studies (1991–94) and MSc (1994–96) at the University of the Witwatersrand, and his PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge (1996-2000). [2] From 2001, he was a professor at the University of British Columbia, before joining the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford from 2013 to 2017. He now works for Google's DeepMind. [3]

Awards and recognition

De Freitas has been recognised for his contributions to machine learning through the following awards:

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