Robert Schapire
Robert Elias Schapire | |
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| Alma mater | Brown University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | AdaBoost |
| Awards | Gödel prize (2003) Paris Kanellakis Award (2004) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Microsoft Research AT&T Labs Princeton University |
| Thesis | The design and analysis of efficient learning algorithms (1991) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ronald Rivest |
| Website | http://rob.schapire.net/ |
Robert Elias Schapire is an American computer scientist, former David M. Siegel '83 Professor in the computer science department at Princeton University, and has recently moved to Microsoft Research. His primary specialty is theoretical and applied machine learning.
His work led to the development of the boosting ensemble algorithm used in machine learning. Together with Yoav Freund, he invented the AdaBoost algorithm in 1996. They both received the Gödel prize in 2003 for this work.
In 2014, Schapire was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for his contributions to machine learning through the invention and development of boosting algorithms.[1] In 2016, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.[2]
Personal life[]
His son, Zachary Schapire, currently attends his alma mater, Brown University. His daughter, Jeni Schapire, is a singer-songwriter in Nashville, TN and a graduate of Oberlin College. He is a self-proclaimed vegetarian.
Selected works[]
Books[]
- Robert Schapire; Yoav Freund (2012). Boosting: Foundations and Algorithms. MIT. ISBN 978-0-262-01718-3.
References[]
- ^ "FACULTY HONOR: Rexford and Schapire elected to National Academy of Engineering". Princeton University. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
- ^ National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected, News from the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, 2016-05-06, archived from the original on 6 May 2016, retrieved 2016-05-14.
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