Michael I. Jordan

He has made contributions in a variety of academic fields, including cognitive science, computer science, computational biology, electrical engineering, and statistics. His research in recent years has focused on Bayesian nonparametric analysis, probabilistic graphical models, spectral methods, kernal machines and applications to problems in statistical genetics, information retrieval, signal processing and distributed computing. He was a member of the MIT faculty from 1988 to 1998. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has been named a Neyman Lecturer and a Medallion Lecturer by the Institute of Mathematical Sciences.  He was the 2009 winner of the Allen Newell Award and the 2015 winner of the David E. Rumelhart Prize.