Russ Salakhutdinov


Ruslan "Russ" Salakhutdinov is a Canadian researcher of Tatar origin working in the field of artificial intelligence.
He specializes in deep learning, probabilistic graphical models, and large-scale optimization.

Life

Salakhutdinov's doctoral advisor was Geoffrey Hinton.
He is well known for having developed Bayesian Program Learning.

Career

Salakhutdinov is a professor of computer science at the Carnegie Mellon University.
Since 2009, he has published at least 42 papers on machine learning.
His research has been funded by Google, Microsoft and Samsung. In 2016, Salakhutdinov joined Apple as its director of AI research.

Awards

He is a CIFAR fellow.