Russ Salakhutdinov

Ruslan "Russ" Salakhutdinov (Russian: Руслан Салахутдинов) is a Canadian researcher of Tatar origin working in the field of artificial intelligence.

Not to be confused with Ruslan Salakhutdinov (footballer).
Ruslan "Russ" Salakhutdinov
Salakhutdinov in 2016.

He specializes in deep learning, probabilistic graphical models, and large-scale optimization.[1]

Life

Salakhutdinov's doctoral advisor was Geoffrey Hinton.[2] Salakhutdinov was considering quitting the field of artificial intelligence when he met Hinton in 2014, but changed his mind after Hinton asked him to take part in a project focused on a new way to train artificial neural networks, which he dubbed "deep belief networks." This research made a large impact on the field of deep learning.[3]

He received his PhD in 2009.[4]

He is well known for having developed Bayesian Program Learning.[2]

Career

Salakhutdinov is a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.[5]

Since 2009, he has published at least 42 papers on machine learning.[6]

His research has been funded by Google, Microsoft and Samsung.[7] In 2016, Salakhutdinov joined Apple as its director of AI research.[1][8]

In June 2023, Salakhutdinov joined Felix Smart which is a company that uses AI to take care for plants and animals as Board Director.[9]

Awards

He is a CIFAR fellow.[10]

References
  1. "Apple's latest hire could signal a big shift in the company's approach to AI". Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  2. "When machines learn like humans - KurzweilAI". www.kurzweilai.net. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  3. Metz, Cade (2022-02-15). Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World. Penguin. p. 63. ISBN 978-1-5247-4269-0.
  4. Salakhutdinov, Ruslan. "Ruslan Salakhutdinov" (PDF). Ruslan Salakhutdinov. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  5. Times, Tech (18 October 2016). "Apple Taps Carnegie Mellon AI Expert Ruslan Salakhutdinov: Siri Getting Beefed Up?". Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  6. "Apple hires its first director of AI research". Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  7. "Apple Hires Carnegie Mellon AI Academic to Push Machine Learning". 17 October 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2017 – via www.bloomberg.com.
  8. Huateng, Ma; Zhaoli, Meng; Deli, Yan; Hualei, Wang (2021-01-25). The Chinese Digital Economy. Springer Nature. p. 57. ISBN 978-981-336-005-1.
  9. Felix Smart Inc. "Felix Smart Appoints Ruslan Salakhutdinov to Board of Directors". PRLog. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
  10. "Deep learning: Changing the playing field of artificial intelligence - MaRS". Retrieved 18 May 2017.
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