UW CSE sets up new endowment for machine learning and artificial intelligence research

www.dailyuw.com - RSS Results in news,news/* of type article The UW computer science and engineering department (CSE) recently announced the creation of the Guestrin Endowed Professorship, a $1-million endowment to be applied to UW CSE research related to the critically important and booming fields of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI).The endowment is named after CSE professor Carlos Guestrin, a leading expert in the field of machine learning who joined UW CSE faculty in 2012, before which he was at Apple on their machine learning team. Guestrin is the Amazon professor of machine learning as well as an adjunct professor in the statistics department. He is also the co-director of the MODE (Machine Learning, Optimization, Distributed Systems, Statistics) Lab, along with Emily Fox and Ben Taskar, which focuses on developing models and algorithms for large-scale time series analysis.“Seattle and UW are near and dear to my heart, and it was incredibly important to me and our team that we continue supporting this world-class institution and the amazing talent coming out of the CSE program,” Guestrin said in the press release. “We look forward to strong collaboration between Apple, CSE, and the broader AI and machine learning community for many years to come.”
According to Ed Lazowska, Bill & Melinda Gates Chair of CSE, this endowment will be particularly crucial to the success of the CSE department as it provides internal recognition to all the other faculty members, external recognition of the machine learning research that UW CSE engages in, increases collaboration between UW CSE and Apple, and allows faculty members like Guestrin to use this money earned from such an endowment for any scholarly purpose.Today, machine learning, which refers to the ability of computers to learn through supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms without being explicitly programmed, is considered necessary to be at the upfront of CSE research. It forms an integral part of artificial intelligence research, which deals ...


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