Rob Fergus | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | University of Oxford University of Cambridge |
| Known for | ZFNet Co-founding Meta AI Co-founding CILVR Lab |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science Machine learning Deep learning |
| Institutions | New York University Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences DeepMind Meta AI (co-founder) |
Rob Fergus is a British-American computer scientist working primarily in the fields of machine learning, deep learning, representational learning, and generative models.12 He is a professor of computer science at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University (NYU) and a research scientist at DeepMind.13 Fergus developed ZFNet in 2013 together with M.D. Zeiler, his PhD student in NYU.4
Fergus co-founded Meta AI (then known as Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR)) along with Yann Le Cun in September 2013.5 In 2009, Rob Fergus co-founded the Computational Intelligence, Learning, Vision, and Robotics (CILVR) Lab at NYU along with Yann Le Cun.6
Awards and recognition
Rob Fergus has been recognized in academia and received the following awards:7
- NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
- Sloan Research Fellowship
- Test-of-time awards at ECCV, CVPR and ICLR
Notable PhD students
- Matt Zeiler (Clarifai founder)
- Wojciech Zaremba (OpenAI co-founder)
- Denis Yarats (Perplexity co-founder)
- Alex Rives (EvolutionaryScale co-founder; faculty at MIT)
References
References
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- Hassanien, Aboul Ella; Soliman, Mona (2022). Artificial Intelligence: A Real Opportunity in the Food Industry. Springer Nature. p. 65. ISBN 978-3-031-13702-0.
- Mlot, Stephanie (2023-12-10). "Facebook Hires NYU Professors for Artificial Intelligence Lab". PCMAG. Archived from the original on 2024-04-17. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
- "About CILVR". wp.nyu.edu. Archived from the original on 2023-03-08. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
- "Faculty Recognition | NYU Courant". cims.nyu.edu. Archived from the original on 2024-07-26. Retrieved 2024-07-29.