Rob Fergus
American computer scientist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rob Fergus is a British-American computer scientist working primarily in the fields of machine learning, deep learning, representational learning, and generative models.[1][2] He is a professor of computer science at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University (NYU) and a research scientist at DeepMind.[1][3] He co-founded Meta AI (then known as Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR)) along with Yann Le Cun in September 2013.[4] In 2009, Rob Fergus co-founded the Computational Intelligence, Learning, Vision, and Robotics (CILVR) Lab at NYU along with Yann Le Cun.[5]
Awards and recognition
Rob Fergus has been recognized in academia and received the following awards:[6]
- NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
- Sloan Research Fellowship
- Test-of-time awards at ECCV, CVPR and ICLR
Notable PhD Students
References
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