Rob Fergus
Rob Fergus is an 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] He co-founded Meta AI (then known as Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR)) along with Yann Le Cun in September 2013.[4] In 2009, Rob Fergus co-founded the Computational Intelligence, Learning, Vision, and Robotics (CILVR) Lab at NYU along with Yann Le Cun.[5]
Awards and recognition
[edit]Rob Fergus has been recognized in academia and received the following awards:[6]
- NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
- NSF Presidential Young Investigator
- Presidential Faculty Fellows (PFF)
- Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
- Sloan Research Fellowship
References
[edit]- ^ a b "PmWiki - HomePage". cs.nyu.edu. Archived from the original on 2024-06-06. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
- ^ "Rob Fergus". scholar.google.com. Archived from the original on 2024-06-06. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
- ^ Shead, Sam (2021-03-11). "DeepMind is building a team of A.I. researchers in New York". CNBC. Archived from the original on 2023-12-16. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
- ^ Mlot, Stephanie (2023-12-10). "Facebook Hires NYU Professors for Artificial Intelligence Lab". PCMAG. Archived from the original on 2024-04-17. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
- ^ "About CILVR". wp.nyu.edu. Archived from the original on 2023-03-08. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
- ^ "Faculty Recognition | NYU Courant". cims.nyu.edu. Archived from the original on 2024-07-26. Retrieved 2024-07-29.
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