Yoav Freund

Yoav Freund (Hebrew: יואב פרוינד; born 1961) is an Israeli professor of computer science at the University of California San Diego who mainly works on machine learning, probability theory and related fields and applications.^[1]

Yoav Freund
יואב פרוינד
Freund in 2018
Born	1961
Alma mater	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of California, Santa Cruz
Known for	AdaBoost
Awards	Gödel Prize (2003)
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	University of California San Diego
Thesis	Data filtering and distribution modeling algorithms for machine learning  (1993)
Doctoral advisor	Manfred K. Warmuth, David Haussler

He is an alumnus of the Hebrew University High School^[2], of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Talpiot program of the Israeli army. He did his PhD in University of California, Santa Cruz.

He is best known for his work on the AdaBoost algorithm, an ensemble learning algorithm which is used to combine many "weak" learning machines to create a more robust one.^[3] He and Robert Schapire received the Gödel Prize in 2003 for their joint work on AdaBoost.^[4] In 2004 he was awarded the Paris Kanellakis Award.^[5] He was elected an AAAI Fellow in 2008.^[6]

Selected works

• Robert Schapire; Yoav Freund (2012). Boosting: Foundations and Algorithms. MIT. ISBN 978-0-262-01718-3.