Rob Fergus

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Rob Fergus is a British-American computer scientist working primarily in the fields of machine learning, deep learning, representational learning, and generative models. [1] [2] He is a professor of computer science at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University (NYU) and a research scientist at DeepMind. [1] [3] Fergus developed ZFNet in 2013 together with M.D. Zeiler, his PhD student in NYU. [4]

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Fergus co-founded Meta AI (then known as Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR)) along with Yann Le Cun in September 2013. [5] In 2009, Rob Fergus co-founded the Computational Intelligence, Learning, Vision, and Robotics (CILVR) Lab at NYU along with Yann Le Cun. [6]

Awards and recognition

Rob Fergus has been recognized in academia and received the following awards: [7]

Notable PhD students

References

  1. 1 2 "PmWiki - HomePage". cs.nyu.edu. Archived from the original on 2024-06-06. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
  2. ↑ "Rob Fergus". scholar.google.com. Archived from the original on 2024-06-06. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
  3. ↑ Shead, Sam (2021-03-11). "DeepMind is building a team of A.I. researchers in New York". CNBC. Archived from the original on 2023-12-16. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
  4. ↑ Hassanien, Aboul Ella; Soliman, Mona (2022). Artificial Intelligence: A Real Opportunity in the Food Industry. Springer Nature. p. 65. ISBN   978-3-031-13702-0.
  5. ↑ Mlot, Stephanie (2023-12-10). "Facebook Hires NYU Professors for Artificial Intelligence Lab". PCMAG. Archived from the original on 2024-04-17. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
  6. ↑ "About CILVR". wp.nyu.edu. Archived from the original on 2023-03-08. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
  7. ↑ "Faculty Recognition | NYU Courant". cims.nyu.edu. Archived from the original on 2024-07-26. Retrieved 2024-07-29.
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