Tim Roughgarden

Timothy Avelin Roughgarden is an Associate professor in the Computer Science and Management Science and Engineering Departments at Stanford University. Tim received his Ph.D. at Cornell University in 2002, where his PhD was supervised by Éva Tardos. Roughgarden teaches a popular two-part Algorithms course on Coursera.


Tom Coleman

Tom Coleman, also credited as Thomas J. Coleman and T. Joseph Coleman, founded the Atlantic Entertainment Group, private independent film and television company, in 1975 and served as its president. He became chairman and CEO of Prism Entertainment when the company merged with Atlantic in 1988. Coleman was chairman of Independent Entertainment Group. Rocket Pictures, an indie production company, was founded by Coleman in 1992. He is an Executive member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and an industry consultant for the Zurich Consulting Group based in Switzerland. In July 2001, he became CEO, President and director of Sun Network Group.


Tom Flynn (author)

Thomas W. "Tom" Flynn (born August 18, 1955) is an American author, journalist, novelist, Executive Director of the Council for Secular Humanism, and editor of its journal, Free Inquiry magazine. He is also director of the Robert Green Ingersoll Birthplace Museum and the Freethought Trail.


Tom M. Apostol

Tom Mike Apostol (August 20, 1923 – May 8, 2016) was an American analytic number theorist and professor at the California Institute of Technology, best known as the author of widely used mathematical textbooks.


Tom M. Mitchell

Tom Michael Mitchell (born August 9, 1951) is an American computer scientist and E. Fredkin University Professor at the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He is currently the Chair of the Machine Learning Department at CMU. Mitchell is known for his contributions to the advancement of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and cognitive neuroscience and is the author of the textbook Machine Learning. He is a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering since 2010. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.


Toro-Ferrer

Toro-Ferrer is an architectural firm in Puerto Rico, which included partners Osvaldo Toro and Miquel Ferrer. The firm designed important Modern Movement buildings in Puerto Rico, including theSupreme Court Building in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The Supreme Court Building is a concrete building designed by Puerto Rican firm Toro-Ferrer with design consultation by Charles H. Warner, Jr. and Harold Eliot Leeds. The building projects over a reflecting pool, helping it to blend with the park surroundings in Luis Munoz Rivera Park.


Tor Wager

Tor D. Wager is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Colorado Boulder, as well as the director of the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory at this university. He is known for his research into the placebo effect and into the way the brain processes pain.


Trevor J. Hastie

Trevor John Hastie (born 27 June 1953) is an American statistician and computer scientist. He is currently serving as the John A. Overdeck Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Professor of Statistics at the Stanford University. Hastie is known for his contributions to applied statistics, especially in the field of machine learning, data mining, and bioinformatics. He has authored several popular books in statistical learning, including The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction. Hastie has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited Author in Mathematics by the ISI Web of Knowledge.


Trey Ideker

Trey Ideker is the Chief of Genetics and Professor of Medicine and Bioengineering at University of California, San Diego (UCSD). His research uses genomic data in order to construct network models of cellular processes and diseases.


Tsuhan Chen

Prof Chen Tsuhan is the Dean of the College of Engineering at Nanyang Technological University. He was previously director of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. Chen was educated at National Taiwan University and the California Institute of Technology; at Caltech, his adviser was P. P. Vaidyanathan. He won the Charles Wilts Doctoral Prize for his 1993 Ph.D. thesis on filters. Prior to joining Cornell, he worked for Bell Labs from 1993 to 1997 and as a professor at Carnegie Mellon University from 1997 to 2009. He was the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia from 2002 to 2004, and was elected as a Fellow of the IEEE in 2007.


Ulrike Sattler

Ulrike M. Sattler is a professor of computer science in the information management group of the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester  where she is director of postgraduate studies.


Usama Fayyad

Usama M. Fayyad (born July, 1965) is an American data scientist and co-founder of KDD conferences and ACM SIGKDD association for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining,. He is a speaker on Business Analytics, Data Mining, Data Science, and Big Data. He is currently the Chief Data Officer at Barclays Bank.


V. N. Krishnamurthy

Dr. V. N. Krishnamurthy (born January 12, 1937) is the former Dy. Director of VSSC and Honorable Director of ISRO-UoP Interaction cell. He obtained his M.Sc. from Madras University and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1967. He joined Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, (Indian Space Research Organization) in February 1968 as chief of analytical facility. He became head of the Propellant Engineering Division in 1976, Group Director Propellants Group in 1986, and Deputy Director in 1989 before retiring in February 1997. After retiring, he became the Honorary Director of DRDO-ISRO-UoP Cells, which coordinates the activities undertaken for ISRO and DRDO at University of Pune.


Venkat Chandrasekaran

Venkat Chandrasekaran is an Assistant Professor in the Computing and Mathematical Sciences Department at the California Institute of Technology. He is known for work on mathematical optimization and its application to the information sciences.


Vinton G. Cerf

Vinton Gray Cerf ForMemRS, (/ˈsɜːrf/; born June 23, 1943) is an American Internet pioneer, who is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with TCP/IP co-inventor Bob Kahn. His contributions have been acknowledged and lauded, repeatedly, with honorary degrees and awards that include the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Marconi Prize and membership in the National Academy of Engineering.


Visakan Kadirkamanathan

Visakan Kadirkamanathan (born 1962) is a Professor of Signal and Information Processing at the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. He is Director of the Rolls-Royce supported University Technology Centre in Control and Monitoring Systems Engineering and is a Founding Member of the University Centre for Signal Processing and Complex Systems. From April 2009 to August 2014, he was Head of the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering. He is known for his contribution to the field of statistical signal processing applied to system identification, signal estimation, and fault detection. Kadirkamanathan is the Co-editor of International Journal of Systems Science.


Vladimir Batagelj

Vladimir Batagelj (born 1948 in Idrija, Yugoslavia), is a Slovenian mathematician, who works mainly in data analysis, discrete mathematics, combinatorial optimization and applications of IT in education. He is Professor of Discrete and Computational Mathematics at the University of Ljubljana. With Andrej Mrvar he is developing, since 1996, Pajek, a software for analysis and visualization of large networks which was started as a project to support Andrej's work on his PhD thesis.


Vladimir Vapnik

Vladimir Naumovich Vapnik (Russian: Владимир Наумович Вапник; born 6 December 1936) is one of the main developers of the Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory of statistical learning, and the co-inventor of the support vector machine method.


W. Brian Arthur

William Brian Arthur (born 21 July 1946) is an economist credited with influencing and describing the modern theory of increasing returns. He has lived and worked in Northern California for many years. He is an authority on economics in relation to complexity theory, technology and financial markets. Presently, he is on the external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, and a Visiting Researcher at the Intelligent Systems Lab at PARC. He is credited with the invention of the El Farol Bar problem.


Walter Daelemans

Walter Daelemans is professor in computational linguistics at the University of Antwerp. He is also a research director of the Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics Research Center (CLiPS). Daelemans pioneered the use of machine learning techniques, especially memory-based learning, in natural language processing in Europe in the early 1990s. Together with Antal van den Bosch he wrote the book Memory-Based Language Processing  and developed the software package TiMBL. This was during his time as a professor at Tilburg University where he founded the research group Induction of Linguistic Knowledge (ILK).


Wendell Fleming

Wendell Helms Fleming (born March 7, 1928) is an American mathematician, specializing in geometrical analysis and stochastic differential equations. Fleming received in 1951 his PhD under Laurence Chisholm Young at the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a thesis entitled Boundary and related notions for generalized parametric surfaces. Fleming was a professor at Brown University, where he retired in 2009 as professor emeritus.


Wendy Hall

Dame Wendy Hall, DBE, FRS, FREng (born 25 October 1952) is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, England.


Whitfield Diffie

Bailey Whitfield 'Whit' Diffie (born June 5, 1944) is an American cryptographer and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography. Diffie and Martin Hellman's paper "New Directions in Cryptography" was published in 1976. It introduced a radically new method of distributing cryptographic keys, that went far toward solving one of the fundamental problems of cryptography, key distribution. It has become known as Diffie–Hellman key exchange. The article also seems to have stimulated the almost immediate public development of a new class of encryption algorithms, the asymmetric key algorithms.


William Hsiao

William C. Hsiao (Traditional Chinese: 蕭慶倫; Simplified Chinese: 萧庆伦) (born January 17, 1936) an American economist, is the K.T. Li Professor of Economics at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts. He is internationally recognized for his work on health care financing and social insurance. Hsiao is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and received his Ph.D from Harvard University in Economics. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, the Society of Actuaries, the National Academy of Social Insurance, and holds several honorary degrees.


Wil M. P. van der Aalst

Wil M.P. van der Aalst (born 29 January 1966) is a Dutch computer scientist, and professor at the Department of Mathematics & Computer Science of the Eindhoven University of Technology, where he chairs the Architecture of Information Systems group. His research and teaching interests include information systems, workflow management, Petri nets, process mining, specification languages, and simulation. He is also known for his work on workflow patterns.


Wolfgang Huber

Wolfgang Huber (born 12 August 1942 in Strasbourg, Germany) is a prominent German theologian and ethicist. Huber served as bishop of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia until November 2009. Huber succeeded Manfred Kock as Chairperson of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) in November 2003 and was succeeded by Bishop Margot Käßmann, the first woman in that position, in October 2009.


Wolfgang Wahlster

Wolfgang Wahlster (born February 2, 1953) is a German Artificial Intelligence researcher. He is CEO and Scientific Director of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and full professor incomputer science at Saarland University, Saarbrücken. He was awarded the Deutscher Zukunftspreis ("German Future Award") in 2001 and has been a foreign member of the Class for Engineering Sciences of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 2003. In 2004, he was elected as a fellow of the Gesellschaft für Informatik.


Wolfram Burgard

Wolfram Burgard (born 1961 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany) is a German roboticist. He is a full professor at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg where he heads the Laboratory for Autonomous Intelligent Systems. He is known for his substantial contributions to the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem as well as diverse other contributions to robotics.


Xiao-Li Meng

Xiao-Li Meng (Chinese: 孟晓犁) (born 1963) is a Chinese American statistician, and the Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics at Harvard University. He received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 2001. He has written numerous research papers about Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms and other statistical methodology. Meng received his B.Sc. from Fudan University in 1982 and his Ph.D. in statistics from Harvard University in 1990. He was elected a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1997 and of the American Statistical Association in 2004.


Xuan Vinh Nguyen

Nguyễn Xuân Vinh (born January 1930 in Yên Bái, Vietnam) is a noted Vietnamese-American aerospace scientist and educator. Vinh is Professor Emeritus of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan, where he taught for nearly thirty years. His seminal work on the guidance, dynamics and optimal control of space vehicles and their interaction with the atmosphere has played a fundamental role in space exploration and technological development.


Yann LeCun

Yann LeCun (born 1960) is a computer scientist with contributions in machine learning, computer vision, mobile robotics and computational neuroscience. He is well known for his work on optical character recognition and computer vision using convolutional neural networks (CNN), and is a founding father of convolutional nets. He is also one of the main creators of the DjVu image compression technology (together with Léon Bottou and Patrick Haffner). He co-developed the Lush programming language with Léon Bottou.


Yao Li

Yao Li (要離) was a famed assassin in the Spring and Autumn Period. Native in the state of Wu, he was recommended to King Helü of Wu by Wu Zixu. His mission was to kill Prince Qingji of Wu (慶忌), who was then in the state of Wei. In order to pretend to be a criminal in the state of Wu, Yao Li killed his wife and his mother, and his right hand was cut off by King Helü. After his arrival in the state of Wei, he met Prince Qingji and was able to stay in the same boat with his target. As the boat reached the middle of the river, he killed Prince Qingji with a lance and then committed suicide.


Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa

Yaser Said Abu-Mostafa (Arabic: ياسر سعيد أبو مصطفى) is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology and Chairman of Machine Learning Consultants LLC. He is known for his research and educational activities in the area of machine learning.


Yoav Benjamini

Yoav Benjamini (born January 5, 1949) is an Israeli statistician best known for development (with Yosef Hochberg) of the “false discovery rate” criterion.


Yoav Freund

Yoav Freund (Hebrew: יואב פרוינד) is an Israeli professor of computer science at the University of California, San Diego who mainly works on machine learning, probability theory and related fields and applications. He is best known for his work on the AdaBoost algorithm, an ensemble learning algorithm which is used to combine many "weak" learning machines to create a more robust one. He received the Gödel prize in 2003 for his work on AdaBoost with Robert Schapire. He is an alumnus of the prestigious Talpiot program of the Israeli army.


Yoonkyung Lee

Yoonkyung Lee is a professor of statistics at Ohio State University, and also holds a courtesy appointment in computer science and engineering at Ohio State. Her research takes a statistical approach to kernel methods, dimensionality reduction, and regularization in machine learning.


Yoshua Bengio

Yoshua Bengio (born 1964) is a French-born Canadian computer scientist, most noted for his work on artificial neural networks and deep learning. Bengio received his Bachelor of Science (electrical engineering), Master of Engineering (computer science) and PhD (computer science) from McGill University. He was a post-doctoral fellow at MIT (under Michael I. Jordan) and AT&T Bell Labs. Bengio has been a faculty member at the Université de Montréal since 1993 and is a fellow of the Learning in Machines & Brains project of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.Bengio is the co-founder of Maluuba.


Yossi Matias

Yossi Matias is an Israeli computer scientist, entrepreneur and Google executive. Matias is Vice President, Engineering at Google, working in the Search organization. He is also the managing director of Google's R&D Center in Israel.He is a recipient of Gödel Prize (see citation) and is an ACM Fellow for contributions to the analysis of big data and the field of streaming algorithms. Matias pioneered some of the early technologies for the effective analysis of big data, internet privacy and contextual search.


Zhi-Hua Zhou

Zhou Zhi-Hua (Chinese: 周志华; pinyin: Zhōu Zhìhuá; born November 1973) is Cheung Kong Professor appointed by the Ministry of Education of China, Standing Deputy Director of National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology at Nanjing University, and a leading researcher in machine learning, pattern recognition and data mining. He also holds Honorary Fellow in Deakin University and Adjunct Professor in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.


Zi Wang

Zi Wang (Chinese: 子望, born 14 July 2014, Tianjin, China) is a Chinese actress and model. In 2013, she appeared in the on Kuai GIF (Chinese GIF apps), Ziwang is popular with her humorous clips, so far by June 2016, she has attracted 1.36 million fans on Kuai GIF.On Sina Weibo, Ziwang is also widely acclaimed, by Septemeber, 2016, she has a million fans.In 2015, She was recruited by a talent group "Miss Like" by Like Media and made appearances in many commercials films and television.


Zoubin Ghahramani

Zoubin Ghahramani FRS (Persian: زوبین قهرمانی; born 8 February 1970) is an Iranian researcher and Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He holds joint appointments at Carnegie Mellon University, University College London and the Alan Turing Institute.