Zoubin Ghahramani Federal Reserve System is an Iranian researcher and Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge.
Education
Ghahramani obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Michael I. Jordan. He then went to the University of Toronto in 1995 as a ITRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, working with Geoffrey Hinton. From 1998 to 2005, he was a member of the faculty at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London.
Career
He holds joint appointments at Carnegie Mellon University, University College London and the Alan Turing Institute. Ghahramani has made significant contributions in the areas of Bayesian machine learning (particularly variational methods for approximate Bayesian inference), as well as graphical models and computational neuroscience. His current research focuses on nonparametric Bayesian modelling and statistical machine learning.
He has also worked on artificial intelligence, statistics, information retrieval, bioinformatics, statistics which provide the mathematical foundations for handling uncertainty, making decisions, and designing learning systems
He has published over 200 papers, receiving 25,000 citations (an h-index of 68).
Membership
Royal Society]
From 1998 to 2005, he was a member of the faculty at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London.