Nando de Freitas
| Nando de Freitas | |
|---|---|
| Born | Zimbabwe |
| Residence | England |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | University of British Columbia, Oxford University |
| Alma mater | University of the Witwatersrand, Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Doctoral advisor | Andrew Gee, Mahesan Niranjan, Christophe Andrieu, and Arnaud Doucet |
| Known for | Machine Learning |
| Notable awards | Distinguished Paper Award at the International Joint Conference on Artificial intelligence (2013), Charles A. McDowell Award for Excellence in Research (2012), Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems Young Researcher Award (2010) |
Nando de Freitas is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. De Freitas is noted as an authority in the field of machine learning, and in particular in the subfields of neural networks, Bayesian inference and Bayesian optimization, and deep learning.
De Freitas was born in Zimbabwe. He did his undergraduate studies and MSc at the University of the Witwatersrand, and his PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge. From 2001, he was a Professor at the University of British Columbia, before joining the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford in 2013 and additionally works for Google's DeepMind.
De Freitas has been recognised for his contributions to machine learning through the following awards:
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