Robert Schapire
Robert Elias Schapire | |
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| Alma mater | Brown University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | AdaBoost |
| Awards | Gödel prize (2003) Paris Kanellakis Award (2004) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Microsoft Research AT&T Labs Princeton University |
| Thesis | The design and analysis of efficient learning algorithms (1991) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ronald Rivest |
| Website | http://rob.schapire.net/ |
Robert Elias Schapire is an American computer scientist renowned for his contributions to machine learning theory and its applications. He was formerly a computer science professor at Princeton University before joining Microsoft Research. His research focuses on theoretical and applied machine learning, with particular emphasis on ensemble learning.
Career
[edit]Schapire's most significant contribution to computer science is the development of boosting, a fundamental ensemble learning algorithm that has revolutionized machine learning. His doctoral dissertation, The design and analysis of efficient learning algorithms, earned him the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award in 1991.[1] In 1996, collaborating with Yoav Freund, he invented the AdaBoost algorithm, a breakthrough that led to their joint receipt of the Gödel Prize in 2003.
Schapire was elected an AAAI Fellow in 2009.[2] In 2014, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for his contributions to machine learning through the invention and development of boosting algorithms.[3] In 2016, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.[4]
Selected works
[edit]Books
[edit]- Robert Schapire; Yoav Freund (2012). Boosting: Foundations and Algorithms. MIT. ISBN 978-0-262-01718-3.
References
[edit]- ^ "Robert Schapire". Awards Home. Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 2021-01-23.
- ^ "Elected AAAI Fellows". AAAI. Retrieved 2024-01-06.
- ^ "FACULTY HONOR: Rexford and Schapire elected to National Academy of Engineering". Princeton University. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
- ^ National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected, News from the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, 2016-05-06, archived from the original on 6 May 2016, retrieved 2016-05-14.
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