Michael I. Jordan

Michael Jordan

ForMemRS
Michael Jordan; ForMemRS
Born	Michael Irwin Jordan; February 25, 1956; Aberdeen, Maryland
Alma mater	University of California, San Diego
Known for	Latent Dirichlet allocation
Awards	Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2010); AAAI Fellow (2002); Rumelhart Prize (2015); IJCAI Award for Research Excellence (2016); IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2020); WLA Prize (2022)
	Scientific career
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley; University of California, San Diego; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis	The Learning of Representations for Sequential Performance (1985)
Doctoral advisor	David Rumelhart; Donald Norman
Doctoral students	David Blei; Tamara Broderick; Barbara Engelhardt; Zoubin Ghahramani; Andrew Ng; Emanuel Todorov; Daniel Wolpert; Eric Xing;
Other notable students	Ben Taskar (postdoc); Yoshua Bengio (postdoc);
Website	www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jordan

Michael Irwin Jordan ForMemRS (born February 25, 1956) is an American scientist, professor at the University of California, Berkeley and researcher in machine learning, statistics, and artificial intelligence.

Jordan was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2010 for contributions to the foundations and applications of machine learning.

He is one of the leading figures in machine learning, and in 2016 Science reported him as the world's most influential computer scientist.

In 2022, Jordan won the inaugural World Laureates Association Prize in Computer Science or Mathematics, "for fundamental contributions to the foundations of machine learning and its application."

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