Daphne Koller
Daphne Koller | |
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Koller in 2019 | |
| Born | August 27, 1968 Jerusalem, Israel |
| Education | Hebrew University of Jerusalem (BSc, MSc) Stanford University (PhD) |
| Known for | Machine learning Graphical models MOOCs Coursera |
| Awards | ISCB Fellow (2017) IJCAI Computers and Thought Award (2001) MacArthur Fellow (2004) PECASE (1999) ACM Prize in Computing (2007) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Machine learning Computational biology Computer vision Artificial intelligence |
| Institutions | Stanford University University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | From Knowledge to Belief (1994) |
| Doctoral advisor | Joseph Halpern |
| Doctoral students | |
| Website | ai |
Daphne Koller (Hebrew: דפנה קולר; born August 27, 1968) is an Israeli-American computer scientist. She was a professor in the department of computer science at Stanford University and a MacArthur Foundation fellowship recipient. She is one of the founders of Coursera, an online education platform. Her general research area is artificial intelligence and its applications in the biomedical sciences. Koller was featured in a 2004 article by MIT Technology Review titled "10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change Your World" concerning the topic of Bayesian machine learning.