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Shai Ben-David

Israeli-Canadian computer scientist and professor From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Shai Ben-David (Hebrew: שי בן-דוד) is an Israeli-Canadian computer scientist and professor at the University of Waterloo. He is known for his research in theoretical machine learning.[1]

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Biography

Shai Ben-David grew up in Jerusalem, Israel and received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,[2] where he was advised by Saharon Shelah.[3][2] He held postdoctoral positions in mathematics and computer science at the University of Toronto. He was a professor of computer science at the Technion and also held visiting positions at the Australian National University and Cornell University.[4]

He has been a professor of computer science at the University of Waterloo since 2004.

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Selected publications and awards

Ben-David has written highly cited papers on learning theory and online algorithms.[5][6][7][8][9] He is a co-author, with Shai Shalev-Shwartz, of the book "Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms"(Cambridge University Press, 2014).[1]

He received the best paper award at NeurIPS 2018.[10] for work on sample complexity of distribution learning problems.[11] He was the President of the Association for Computational Learning from 2009 to 2011.[12]

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Awards

Publications

  • Shalev-Shwartz, Shai; Ben-David, Shai (2014). Understanding machine learning: From theory to algorithms. Cambridge University Press.
  • Ben-David, Shai; Blitzer, John; Crammer, Koby; Kulesza, Alex; Pereira, Fernando; Wortman Vaughan, Jennifer (2010). "A theory of learning from different domains". Machine Learning. 79. Springer US: 151–175.
  • Ben-David, Shai; Blitzer, John; Crammer, Koby; Pereira, Fernando (2006). "Analysis of representations for domain adaptation". Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. 19.
  • Kifer, Daniel; Ben-David, Shai; Gehrke, Johannes (2004). "Detecting change in data streams". VLDB. 4.
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References

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