Vladimir Vapnik

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Vladimir N. Vapnik
Born (1936-12-06) December 6, 1936 (age 87)
Tashkent, Uzbek SSR
Alma mater
Vencore Labs
NEC Laboratories America

Adaptive Systems Research Department, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Royal Holloway, University of London
Columbia University
Doctoral advisorAlexander Lerner

Vladimir Naumovich Vapnik (

support-vector machine method and support-vector clustering algorithms.[2]

Early life and education

Vladimir Vapnik was born to a

Jewish family[3] in the Soviet Union. He received his master's degree in mathematics from the Uzbek State University, Samarkand, Uzbek SSR in 1958 and Ph.D in statistics at the Institute of Control Sciences, Moscow in 1964. He worked at this institute from 1961 to 1990 and became Head of the Computer Science Research Department.[4]

Academic career

At the end of 1990, Vladimir Vapnik moved to the

AT&T Laboratories when AT&T spun off Lucent Technologies in 1996. In 2000, Vapnik and Hava Siegelmann developed Support-Vector Clustering, which enabled the algorithm to categorize inputs without labels - becoming one of the most ubiquitous data clustering applications in use[citation needed]. Vapnik left AT&T in 2002 and joined NEC Laboratories in Princeton, New Jersey, where he worked in the Machine Learning group. He also holds a Professor of Computer Science and Statistics position at Royal Holloway, University of London since 1995, as well as a position as Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University, New York City since 2003.[5] As of February 1, 2021, he has an h-index of 86 and, overall, his publications have been cited 226597 times.[6] His book on "The Nature of Statistical Learning Theory" alone has been cited 91650 times.[citation needed
]

On November 25, 2014, Vapnik joined Facebook AI Research,[7] where he is working alongside his longtime collaborators Jason Weston, Léon Bottou, Ronan Collobert, and Yann LeCun.[8] In 2016, he also joined Peraton Labs.

Honors and awards

Vladimir Vapnik was inducted into the U.S.

Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science from the Franklin Institute,[4] the 2013 C&C Prize from the NEC C&C Foundation,[11]
the 2014 Kampé de Fériet Award, the 2017 IEEE John von Neumann Medal.[12] In 2018, he received the Kolmogorov Medal[13] from University of London and delivered the Kolmogorov Lecture. In 2019, Vladimir Vapnik received
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award.[citation needed
]

Selected publications

See also

References

  1. S2CID 7138354
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  2. S2CID 206787478
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  3. ^ Estimation of Dependences Based on Empirical Data, (Springer Science & Business Media, 28 Sep 2006), By V. Vapnik, page 424
  4. ^ a b "Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science". Franklin Institute. 2012. Retrieved April 6, 2013.
  5. ISBN 978-3-642-41136-6
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  6. ^ "Google Scholar Record of Vapnik".
  7. ^ "Facebook AI Research". FAIR. Retrieved 2016-09-20.; "see also" "Facebook Research, ("People" entry for "Vladimir Vapnik")". Retrieved 2017-09-06.
  8. ^ "Facebook's AI team hires Vladimir Vapnik, father of the popular support vector machine algorithm". VentureBeat. 2014. Retrieved November 28, 2014.
  9. ^ "INNS awards recipients". International Neural Network Society. 2005. Retrieved November 28, 2014.
  10. ^ IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
  11. ^ "NEC C&C Foundation Awards 2013 C&C Prize". NEC. 2013. Retrieved December 3, 2013.
  12. ^ "IEEE JOHN VON NEUMANN MEDAL RECIPIENTS" (PDF). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
  13. ^ "Kolmogorov Lecture and Medal".

External links

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