John Shawe-Taylor | |
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Born | 1953 (age 63–64) Cheltenham |
Fields | Computer science, Statistics |
Institutions |
University of Southampton University College London |
Alma mater |
Imperial College London Royal Holloway, University of London |
Thesis | Regularity and Transitivity in Graphs (1985) |
Doctoral advisor | Norman L. Biggs |
Known for | textbooks on statistical learning theory and support vector machines |
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John Stewart Shawe-Taylor (born 1953) is Director of the Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning at University College, London (UK). His main research area is statistical learning theory.
He has written with Nello Cristianini two books on the theory of support vector machines and kernel methods:
He has published research in neural networks, machine learning, and graph theory.
He attended Shrewsbury School and graduated from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.