Vladimir Vapnik Joins Facebook AI Research

Facebook’s artificial-intelligence unit, Facebook AI Research, announced the addition of Vladimir Vapnik, from the University of London.

VladimirVapnikYannLeCun650Facebook’s artificial-intelligence unit, Facebook AI Research, announced the addition of Vladimir Vapnik, from the University of London.

The hire was announced in a post on the Facebook AI Research page, in which Vapnik was pictured with Yann LeCun, who was tapped to lead the social network’s AI lab last December:

We are delighted to announce that Vladimir Vapnik has joined Facebook AI Research.

Vladimir is universally known in the machine-learning and statistics communities as the father of statistical learning theory and the co-inventor of the Support Vector Machine method.

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