Daphne Koller

Daphne Koller
Born (1968-08-27) August 27, 1968
Residence United States
Nationality Israel
Fields Artificial Intelligence
Institutions Stanford University
Alma mater Stanford University (1993, PhD)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1986, MS)
Thesis From Knowledge to Belief (1994)
Doctoral advisor Joseph Halpern
Doctoral students Eran Segal, Lise Getoor, Mehran Sahami, Ben Taskar
Known for Machine Learning
Graphical model
MOOC (Coursera)
Notable awards IJCAI Computers and Thought Award (2001)
MacArthur Fellow (2004)
Website
ai.stanford.edu/~koller/

Daphne Koller (born August 27, 1968) is an Israeli-American Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University[1] and a MacArthur Fellowship recipient. She is also one of the founders of Coursera, an online education platform. Her general research area is artificial intelligence[2][3] and its applications in the biomedical sciences.[4][5] Koller was featured in a 2004 article by MIT Technology Review titled "10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change Your World"[6] concerning the topic of Bayesian machine learning.

Life

She received a bachelor's degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1985, at the age of 17, and a master's degree from the same institution in 1986.[7]

Koller completed her Ph.D. at Stanford in 1993 under the supervision of Joseph Halpern, did postdoctoral research at University of California, Berkeley from 1993 to 1995,[8] and joined the faculty of the Stanford University Computer Science Department in 1995. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2004, was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2011 and was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014.

In April 2008, Daphne Koller was awarded the first ever $150,000 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in Computing Sciences.[9]

In 2009, she published a textbook on probabilistic graphical models together with Nir Friedman.[10] She offered a free online course on the subject starting in February 2012.[11]

She and Andrew Ng, a fellow Stanford computer science professor in the AI lab, launched Coursera in 2012. She served as the CEO and then President of Coursera. She was recognized for her contributions to online education by being named one of Newsweek's 10 Most Important People in 2010, Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in 2012, and Fast Company's Most Creative People in 2014. [12]

She left Coursera in 2016 to become chief computing officer at Calico.[13]

She is married to Dan Avida.[7]

Honors and awards

Selected works

Books

References

External video
"Daphne Koller: What we're learning from online education", TED talk, June 2012
Daphne Koller, Co-Founder of Coursera – February 20, 2013, Darden School of Business
  1. ↑ Koller Home page at Stanford
  2. ↑ New York Times Profile of Daphne Koller "Pursuing the Next Level of Artificial Intelligence"
  3. ↑ Daphne Koller at DBLP Bibliography Server
  4. ↑ Daphne Koller's publications in PubMed
  5. ↑ Segal, E.; Shapira, M.; Regev, A.; Pe'er, D.; Botstein, D.; Koller, D.; Friedman, N. (2003). "Module networks: Identifying regulatory modules and their condition-specific regulators from gene expression data". Nature Genetics. 34 (2): 166–176. doi:10.1038/ng1165. PMID 12740579.
  6. ↑ "10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change Your World", MIT Technology Review, February 2004
  7. 1 2 "Profile details: Daphne Koller". Marquis Who's Who. Retrieved August 7, 2012.
  8. ↑ Daphne Koller's Academic Genealogy
  9. ↑ $150,000 Prize to Stanford’s Koller for Groundbreaking Work in Making Computers Intelligent
  10. ↑ Daphne Koller and Nir Friedman (2009). Probabilistic Graphical Models. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-01319-3.
  11. ↑ Probabilistic Graphical Models – Coursera class
  12. ↑
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