Education
Stanford University.
Stanford University.
She is also 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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Technology Review titled "10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change Your World" concerning the topic of Bayesian machine learning.
She received a bachelor"s degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1985, at the age of 17, and a master"s degree from the same institution in 1986.
Koller completed her Doctor of Philosophy at Stanford in 1993 under the supervision of Joseph Halpern, did postdoctoral research at University of California, Berkeley from 1993 to 1995, and joined the faculty of the Stanford University Computer Science Department in 1995. In April 2008, Daphne Koller was awarded the first ever $150,000 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)-Infosys Foundation Award in Computing Sciences.
In 2009, she published a textbook on probabilistic graphical models together with Nir Friedman. She offered a free online course on the subject starting in February 2012.
She and Andrew Ng, a fellow Stanford computer science professor in the Artificial Intelligence lab, launched Coursera in 2012.