Ruslan "Russ" Salakhutdinov is a Canadian researcher working in the field of artificial intelligence.
He specializes in deep learning, probabilistic graphical models, and large-scale optimization.
His doctoral advisor was Geoff Hinton.
He is well known for having developed Bayesian Program Learning.
He is a professor of computer science at the Carnegie Mellon University.
Since 2009, he's published at least 42 papers on machine learning.
His research has been funded by Google, Microsoft and Samsung.
In 2016, he joined Apple as its director of AI research.
He is a CIFAR fellow.