| Title | Professor |
| Institution | University of California |
| Homepage | http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jordan/ |
| Bio | Michael Jordan is the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Masters from Arizona State University, and earned his PhD in 1985 from the University of California, San Diego. He was a professor at MIT from 1988 to 1998. He has published over 300 articles in statistics, electrical engineering, computer science, statistical genetics, computational biology and cognitive science. His research in recent years has focused on Bayesian nonparametric analysis, probabilistic graphical models, spectral methods, kernel machines and applications to problems in computational biology, information retrieval, signal processing and speech recognition. Prof. Jordan was named to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 2010 and the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2010. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He was named a Neyman Lecturer of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) for 2011 and was an IMS Medallion Lecturer in 2004. He is a Fellow of the IMS, a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the AAAI and a Fellow of the ASA. |
*Since 2006