Biography:Adam Tauman Kalai
Adam Tauman Kalai | |
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| Education | |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence |
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| Thesis | Probabilistic and on-line methods in machine learning (2001) |
| Doctoral advisor | Avrim Blum |
| Other academic advisors | Santosh Vempala |
| Website | kal |
Adam Tauman Kalai is an American computer scientist who specializes in artificial intelligence and works at OpenAI.[2][3]
Education and career
Kalai graduated from Harvard University in 1996 with a BA in computer science and received a MA and PhD, both in computer science, from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999 and 2001, respectively.[4] His doctoral advisor was Avrim Blum. After graduation, Kalai did his postdoctoral research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology under Santosh Vempala until 2003.[5] Kalai became a faculty member at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago from 2003 to 2006,[6] followed by a stint as an assistant professor at Georgia Institute of Technology from 2007 to 2008. He joined Microsoft Research in 2008[7][8] and subsequently moved to OpenAI in 2023.[2][3]
Contributions
Kalai is known for his algorithm for generating random factored numbers (see Bach's algorithm), for efficiently learning learning mixtures of Gaussians, for the Blum-Kalai-Wasserman algorithm for learning parity with noise, and for the intractability of the folk theorem in game theory.[citation needed]
More recently,[when?] Kalai is known for identifying and reducing gender bias in word embeddings, which are a representation of words commonly used in AI systems.[8][9]
Personal life
Kalai is the son of game theorist Ehud Kalai and is married to cryptographer Yael Tauman Kalai.[10][11] His mother is Fern Moss, sister of entrepreneur and art curator Murray Moss.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "191: FRENCH, Pitcher | Wright20.com". https://www.wright20.com/auctions/2024/07/arts-220-the-vision-of-fern-moss-kalai/191.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Levy, Steven (January 5, 2024), "In Defense of AI Hallucinations", Wired, https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-in-defense-of-ai-hallucinations-chatgpt/, retrieved March 19, 2024
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Adam Tauman Kalai, https://kal.ai, retrieved March 19, 2024
- ↑ "Adam Kalai: Curriculum Vitae". https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/akalai/www/cv/cv.html.
- ↑ "TTIC Tenth Anniversary Symposium". https://www.ttic.edu/anniversary-symposium/.
- ↑ "TTIC Faculty Alumni". https://www.ttic.edu/faculty-alumni/.
- ↑ "Invited Speakers", Journal of Physics Conference Series 683 (1), 2016, doi:10.1088/1742-6596/683/1/011004, Bibcode: 2016JPhCS.683a1004., https://www.aistats.org/aistats2016/speakers.html, retrieved January 28, 2019
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Pinkerton, Byrd (August 12, 2016), He's Brilliant, She's Lovely: Teaching Computers To Be Less Sexist, https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/08/12/489507182/hes-brilliant-shes-lovely-teaching-computers-to-be-less-sexist, retrieved January 28, 2019
- ↑ Gholipour, Bahar (March 10, 2017), Algorithms Learn From Us, and We Can Be Better Teachers, https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/technology/ai-learns-us-we-re-becoming-better-teachers-n731861, retrieved September 1, 2019
- ↑ Knies, Rob (May 14, 2009), New England Researcher Finds Her Bliss, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/new-england-researcher-finds-bliss/
- ↑ Weinreb, Gali (August 20, 2023), "Who'll blink first? The mathematics of politics", Globes, https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-wholl-blink-first-the-mathematics-of-politics-1001455568
External links
- Adam Tauman Kalai publications indexed by Google Scholar
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