Zachary Lipton

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Zachary Lipton
Born
Zachary Lipton

1985 (age 3839)
NationalityAmerican
Education Columbia University
University of California, San Diego
Scientific career
Fields Computer Science
Institutions
Thesis Learning from Temporally-Structured Human Activities Data  (2017)
Doctoral advisor Charles Elkan and Julian McAuley
Website zacklipton.com

Zachary Lipton (born 1985) is a machine learning researcher and jazz saxophonist from New Rochelle, New York. He is currently Chief Technology Officer and Chief Scientific Officer at Abridge [1] [2] [3] . He is also an assistant professor of Machine Learning and Operations Research at Carnegie Mellon University, where he runs the Approximately Correct Machine Intelligence (ACMI) lab. Previously, he completed his undergraduate studies at Columbia University and a PhD in Computer Science at University of California, San Diego. [4] He is the grandson of Issachar Miron, the composer of the popular song Tzena, Tzena, Tzena. [5]

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