Yoav Freund
Yoav Freund · Technology & Engineering
Israeli co-inventor of AdaBoost, a cornerstone of machine learning; Gödel Prize (2003)
1961, Israel
Israel · United States (San Diego, California)
Yoav Freund is recognized among Israeli contributors to Technology & Engineering — Israeli co-inventor of AdaBoost, a cornerstone of machine learning; Gödel Prize (2003)
Freund is an Israeli computer scientist, now at UC San Diego, who works in machine learning. With Robert Schapire he invented AdaBoost, a 'boosting' algorithm that combines many weak classifiers into a single accurate one, becoming a cornerstone method of machine learning. The pair received the Gödel Prize in 2003 for this work. He is an Israeli Jew.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Gödel Prize
Israeli co-inventor of AdaBoost, a cornerstone of machine learning; Gödel Prize (2003)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Gödel Prize
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