Ruslan Salakhutdinov

In addition to teaching computer science at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Machine Learning, Ruslan Salakhutdinov formerly served as Apple's Director of AI Research. He has produced works in the areas of deep learning, probabilistic graphic models, and large-scale optimization. He is an expert in the statistical machine learning sector.

The University of Toronto awarded Salakhutdinov a Doctorate in machine learning in 2009. He completed his postdoctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Artificial Intelligence Lab for two years before beginning his associate professorship at the University of Toronto's Department of Computer Science and Department of Statistics. Many honors have been bestowed upon him, including the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the Google Faculty Research Award, the Connaught New Researcher Award, the Early Researcher Award, and the Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.