Biography:Rob Fergus
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] Fergus developed ZFNet in 2013 together with M.D. Zeiler, his PhD student in NYU.[4]
Fergus co-founded Meta AI (then known as Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR)) along with Yann Le Cun in September 2013.[5] In 2009, Rob Fergus co-founded the Computational Intelligence, Learning, Vision, and Robotics (CILVR) Lab at NYU along with Yann Le Cun.[6]
Awards and recognition
Rob Fergus has been recognized in academia and received the following awards:[7]
- NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
- Sloan Research Fellowship
- Test-of-time awards at ECCV, CVPR and ICLR
Notable PhD students
- Matt Zeiler (Clarifai founder)
- Wojciech Zaremba (OpenAI co-founder)
- Denis Yarats (Perplexity co-founder)
- Alex Rives (EvolutionaryScale co-founder; faculty at MIT)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "PmWiki - HomePage". https://cs.nyu.edu/~fergus/pmwiki/pmwiki.php.
- ↑ "Rob Fergus". https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=GgQ9GEkAAAAJ&hl=en.
- ↑ Shead, Sam (2021-03-11). "DeepMind is building a team of A.I. researchers in New York" (in en). https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/11/google-deepmind-selects-new-york-for-new-ai-research-hub.html.
- ↑ Hassanien, Aboul Ella; Soliman, Mona (2022) (in en). Artificial Intelligence: A Real Opportunity in the Food Industry. Springer Nature. pp. 65. ISBN 978-3-031-13702-0.
- ↑ Mlot, Stephanie (2023-12-10). "Facebook Hires NYU Professors for Artificial Intelligence Lab" (in en). https://www.pcmag.com/news/facebook-hires-nyu-professors-for-artificial-intelligence-lab.
- ↑ "About CILVR". https://wp.nyu.edu/cilvr/about-cilvr/.
- ↑ "Faculty Recognition | NYU Courant". https://cims.nyu.edu/dynamic/research/recognition/.
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