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Daphne Koller
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Daphne Koller is a computer scientist, engineer and university teacher born on 27 August 1968 in Jerusalem, holding citizenship of Israel and the United States. She was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Stanford University, earning a Doctor of Philosophy. She works in machine learning with an interest in artificial intelligence, is employed as a professor at Stanford University, and wrote Probabilistic Graphical Models. She is a notable figure behind Coursera.
Koller is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has received the MacArthur Fellows Program award, the Computer Pioneer Award and the ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1968
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Probabilistic Graphical Models
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 152
- Total plays
- 464
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Activating Mutations in the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Underlying Responsiveness of Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer to Gefitinib
· 2004 · cited 9,572x
- The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project
· 2013 · cited 8,560x
- Detection of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) by real-time RT-PCR
· 2020 · cited 5,756x
- Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
· 2017 · cited 5,574x
- 2018 ESC/EACTS Guidelines on myocardial revascularization
· 2018 · cited 5,559x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1968-08-27 ) August 27, 1968 (age 57) , Jerusalem , Israel
- Education
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem (BSc, MSc), Stanford University (PhD)
- Known for
- Machine learning , Graphical models , MOOCs , Coursera
- Awards
- ISCB Fellow (2017), IJCAI Computers and Thought Award (2001) , MacArthur Fellow (2004), PECASE (1999), ACM Prize in Computing (2007)
- Fields
- Machine learning , Computational biology , Computer vision , Artificial intelligence
- Institutions
- Stanford University , University of California, Berkeley
- Thesis
- From Knowledge to Belief (1994)
- Doctoral advisor
- Joseph Halpern
- Doctoral students
- Lise Getoor Carlos Guestrin Su-In Lee Mehran Sahami Suchi Saria Eran Segal Ben Taskar
- Website
- ai .stanford .edu /~koller /
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Official website
Daphne Koller
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Daphne
- Family name
- Koller
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Jerusalem
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Position held
- professor
- Educated at
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Employer
- Stanford University
- Notable work
- Coursera
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- Joseph Halpern
- Field of work
- machine learning
- Official website
- ai.stanford.edu/~koller
- Image
- Daphne Koller with flowers (portrait).jpg
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- Commons category
- Daphne Koller
- date of birth
- 1968-08-27
- Erdős number
- 3
- influenced by
- Joseph Halpern
- social media followers
- 23007
- interested in
- Artificial intelligence
- affiliation string
- Stanford University
- affiliation
- Stanford University
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Daphne Koller (Hebrew: דפנה קולר; born August 27, 1968) is an Israeli-American computer scientist. She was a professor in the department of computer science at Stanford University and a MacArthur Foundation fellowship recipient. She is one of the founders of Coursera, an online education platform. Her general research area is artificial intelligence and its applications in the biomedical sciences. Koller was featured in a 2004 article by MIT Technology Review titled "10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change Your World" concerning the topic of Bayesian machine learning.
Early life
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