Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Ruslan Salakhutdinov
Salakhutdinov in 2016
Bornc. 1980 (age 4445)
Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Father Ravil Salahutdinov born in 1949.
Alma materUniversity of Toronto
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
Artificial intelligence
InstitutionsCarnegie Mellon University
ThesisLearning deep generative models (2009)
Doctoral advisorGeoffrey Hinton

Ruslan Salakhutdinov (Russian: Руслан Салахутдинов; born c. 1980) is a Canadian researcher of Tatar origin working in the field of artificial intelligence.

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