Daphne Koller

Daphne Koller
Residence	United States
Nationality	American
Fields	Machine Learning
Institutions	Stanford University
Alma mater	Stanford University Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Doctoral advisor	Joseph Halpern
Doctoral students	Eran Segal

Daphne Koller is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University^[1] and a MacArthur Fellowship recipient. Her general research area is artificial intelligence^[2][3] and its applications in the biomedical sciences^[4][5]. Koller was featured in an article by MIT Technology Review titled "10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change Your World"^[6] concerning the topic of Bayesian Machine Learning.

She went to college at the age of 13, completed her Bachelors degree at 17 and her Masters at 18.^[7]

Koller completed her Ph.D. at Stanford in 1993 under the supervision of Joseph Halpern, and joined the faculty of the Stanford University Computer Science Department in 1995. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2004.

In April 2008, Daphne Koller was awarded the first-ever $150,000 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in Computing Sciences.^[8]

References

1. ^ http://ai.stanford.edu/~koller/ Koller Home page at Stanford
2. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/03/technology/03koller.html New York Times Profile of Daphne Koller "Pursuing the Next Level of Artificial Intelligence"
3. ^ http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/k/Koller:Daphne.html Daphne Koller's publications in DBLP
4. ^ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=daphne%20koller%5Bau%5D Daphne Kollers publications in PubMed
5. ^ Segal, E.; Shapira, M.; Regev, A.; Pe'er, D.; Botstein, D.; Koller, D.; Friedman, N. (2003). "Module networks: Identifying regulatory modules and their condition-specific regulators from gene expression data". Nature Genetics 34 (2): 166–176. doi:10.1038/ng1165. PMID 12740579.  edit
6. ^ http://www-personal.umich.edu/~warrencp/emergingtech.htm MIT Technology Review Article
7. ^ "Daphne Koller: when machines are almost human". http://www.thedailymaverick.co.za/article/2010-11-16-building-smarter-machines-that-serve-humanity. Retrieved 17 JUN 2011. 
8. ^ $150,000 Prize to Stanford’s Koller for Groundbreaking Work in Making Computers Intelligent

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