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Vladimir Vapnik (Facebook AI Research)
Research Consultant
Vladimir Vapnik is currently a research consultant at Facebook AI Research. He held research positions at NEC Labs from 2002 to 2014, AT&T Labs from 1996 to 2002, Bell Laboratories from 1989 to 1996. He was with the Institute for Control Sciences in Moscow between 1961 and 1989, eventually holding the position of head of the computer science research department. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering since 2006, and has held affiliations with the Royal Holloway University and Columbia University. He is the recipient of the 2005 Gabor Award, the 2008 Paris Kanellakis Award, the 2010 Neural Networks Pioneer Award, the 2012 IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award, the 2012 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science, the 2013 C&C Prize from the NEC C&C Foundation, and the 2014 Kampé de Fériet Award. He has made contributions to the theoretical foundations of machine learning, particularly the notions of capacity and consistency, and helped develop the Support Vector Machine method.