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Israeli-American computer scientist

Person · Open Library

Born
1968
Works
1

Top works

  • Probabilistic Graphical Models

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
AT
Active from
1921-02-12
Active to
2003-12-22

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
152
Total plays
464

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Key facts

Born
( 1968-08-27 ) August 27, 1968 (age 57) , Jerusalem , Israel
Education
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (BSc, MSc), Stanford University (PhD)
Known for
Machine learning , Graphical models , MOOCs , Coursera
Awards
ISCB Fellow (2017), IJCAI Computers and Thought Award (2001) , MacArthur Fellow (2004), PECASE (1999), ACM Prize in Computing (2007)
Fields
Machine learning , Computational biology , Computer vision , Artificial intelligence
Institutions
Stanford University , University of California, Berkeley
Thesis
From Knowledge to Belief (1994)
Doctoral advisor
Joseph Halpern
Doctoral students
Lise Getoor Carlos Guestrin Su-In Lee Mehran Sahami Suchi Saria Eran Segal Ben Taskar
Website
ai .stanford .edu /~koller /

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Official website

Daphne Koller

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Encyclopedic overview

Daphne Koller (Hebrew: דפנה קולר; born August 27, 1968) is an Israeli-American computer scientist. She was a professor in the department of computer science at Stanford University and a MacArthur Foundation fellowship recipient. She is one of the founders of Coursera, an online education platform. Her general research area is artificial intelligence and its applications in the biomedical sciences. Koller was featured in a 2004 article by MIT Technology Review titled "10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change Your World" concerning the topic of Bayesian machine learning.

Early life

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