Rob Fergus
Rob Fergus | |
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| Alma mater | University of Oxford University of Cambridge |
| Known for | ZFNet Co-founding Meta AI Co-founding CILVR Lab |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science Machine learning Deep learning |
| Institutions | New York University Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences DeepMind Meta AI (co-founder) |
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
[edit]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
[edit]- Matt Zeiler (Clarifai founder)
- Wojciech Zaremba (OpenAI co-founder)
- Denis Yarats (Perplexity co-founder)
- Alex Rives (EvolutionaryScale co-founder; faculty at MIT)
References
[edit]- 1 2 "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.
- ↑ Hassanien, Aboul Ella; Soliman, Mona (2022). Artificial Intelligence: A Real Opportunity in the Food Industry. Springer Nature. p. 65. ISBN 978-3-031-13702-0.
- ↑ 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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