| Citation | Michael Jordan is a world-leading researcher in computer science and statistics. He has been a pioneer in areas such as variational inference, convex and nonconvex optimisation, graphical models, distributed systems, kernel methods, natural language processing, and statistical genetics. He is known for his theoretical and algorithmic work on tradeoffs between computational, inferential, and economic objectives. He has been awarded the David E. Rumelhart prize in cognitive science, the IJCAI Research Excellence prize in artificial intelligence, the ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award in computer science, and the IEEE John von Neumann medal in systems science. |