David Blei

{{Short description|American artificial intelligence researcher}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = David M. Blei

| nationality = American

| field = Artificial Intelligence

| work_institution = Princeton University
Columbia University

| alma_mater = Brown University B.S. (1997)
University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. (2004)

| thesis_title = Probabilistic Models of Text and Images

| thesis_year = 2004

| thesis_url = http://oskicat.berkeley.edu/record=b15238730~S1

| doctoral_advisor = Michael I. Jordan

| doctoral_students =

| known_for = Topic models

| website = {{URL|https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~blei/}}

| prizes = PECASE
ACM Fellow (2015)

}}

David Meir Blei is a professor in the Statistics and Computer Science departments at Columbia University. Prior to fall 2014 he was an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University. His work is primarily in machine learning.

Research

His research interests include topic models and he was one of the original developers of latent Dirichlet allocation, along with Andrew Ng and Michael I. Jordan. As of June 18, 2020, his publications have been cited 109,821 times, giving him an h-index of 97.{{Cite web|title = David Blei - Google Scholar Citations|url = https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8OYE6iEAAAAJ&hl=en|website = scholar.google.com|accessdate = 2020-06-18}}

Honors and awards

Blei received the ACM Infosys Foundation Award in 2013. (This award is given to a computer scientist under the age of 45. It has since been renamed the ACM Prize in Computing.) He was named Fellow of ACM "For contributions to the theory and practice of probabilistic topic modeling and Bayesian machine learning" in 2015.{{cite web |url=http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2015/fellows-2015 |title=ACM Fellows Named for Computing Innovations that Are Advancing Technology in the Digital Age |date=8 December 2015 |publisher=ACM |access-date=9 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151209221613/http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2015/fellows-2015 |archive-date=9 December 2015 |url-status=dead }}

References

External links

[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~blei/ Homepage]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20161215141606/http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~blei/papers/BleiNgJordan2003.pdf Latent Dirichlet Allocation (PDF)]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20101230164018/http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~blei/publications.html Publications]
[http://awards.acm.org/award_winners/blei_3974465.cfm ACM-Infosys Foundation Award, 2013]

Category:Living people

Category:Artificial intelligence researchers

Category:Brown University alumni

Category:University of California, Berkeley alumni

Category:Columbia University faculty

Category:Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty

Category:2015 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery

Category:Recipients of the ACM Prize in Computing

Category:Year of birth missing (living people)

Category:Machine learning researchers

Category:Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

Category:Bayesian statisticians