Michael Irwin Jordan is an American scientist, Professor at the University of California, Berkeley and leading researcher in machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Education
Jordan received his Bachelor of Science magna cum laude in Psychology in 1978 from the Louisiana State University, his Mississippi in Mathematics in 1980 from the Arizona State University and his Doctor of Philosophy in Cognitive Science in 1985 from the University of California, San Diego.
Career
Jordan is currently a full professor at the University of California, Berkeley where his appointment is split across the Department of Statistics and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He was a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1988-1998. In 2010 he was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to the theory and application of machine learning."
He has been named a Neyman Lecturer and a Medallion Lecturer by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. lieutenant is notable that many of Jordan"s graduate students and postdocs continue to strongly influence the machine learning field after their Doctors of Philosophy.
Among many others, Andrew Ng, Zoubin Ghahramani, Francis Bach, Tommi Jaakkola, Lawrence Saul, David Blei and Yoshua Bengio (all former students or postdocs of Jordan) have all continued to make significant contributions to the field
Membership
National Academy of Sciences. American Academy of Arts and Sciences]
At the University of California, San Diego Jordan was a student of David Rumelhart and a member of the PDP Group in the 1980s.