Biography:Richard Zemel

Short description: Canadian-American computer scientist (born 1963)

Richard Zemel
Born	Richard Stanley Zemel 1963 (age 60–61)
Nationality	United States Canada
Education	Harvard University University of Toronto
Spouse(s)	Toniann Pitassi
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics, computer science
Institutions	University of Arizona University of Toronto Columbia University
Doctoral advisor	Geoffrey Hinton

Richard Stanley Zemel (born 1963) is a Canadian-American computer scientist and professor at Columbia University, Department of Computer Science, and a leading figure in the field of Machine Learning and Computer Vision.

Zemel studied the history of science at Harvard University and obtained his B.A. in 1984. He continued his study at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Toronto under the supervision of Geoffrey Hinton. He obtain his M.Sc. and Ph.D. both in computer science in 1989 and 1994, respectively.

See also

• Helmholtz machine