Zoubin Ghahramani

Zoubin Ghahramani
Zoubin Ghahramani in 2015, portrait from the Royal Society
Born	(1970-02-08) 8 February 1970 (age 48) Iran
Residence	United Kingdom
Alma mater	University of Pennsylvania Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known for	Graphical models Variational Bayes Computational neuroscience
Awards	FRS (2015)
Scientific career
Fields	Machine Learning Bayesian statistics
Institutions	University of Cambridge Carnegie Mellon University University College London University of Toronto
Thesis	Computation and Psychophysics of Sensorimotor Integration (1995)
Doctoral advisor	Michael I. Jordan Tomaso Poggio
Website	mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk/zoubin/

Zoubin Ghahramani FRS (Persian: ژوبین قهرمانی‎; born 8 February 1970) is a British-Iranian researcher and Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He holds joint appointments at Carnegie Mellon University, University College London and the Alan Turing Institute. and has been a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge since 2009. He is also the Chief Scientist of Uber and Deputy Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence.

Ghahramani was educated at the American School of Madrid in Spain and the University of Pennsylvania where he was awarded a double major degree in Cognitive Science and Computer Science in 1990. He obtained his PhD from the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, supervised by Michael I. Jordan and Tomaso Poggio.

Following his PhD, Ghahramani moved to the University of Toronto in 1995 as an ITRCPostdoctoral Fellow in the Artificial Intelligence Lab, working with Geoffrey Hinton. From 1998 to 2005, he was a member of the faculty at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London.