SCIENCE BIO: Joseph Turian has been working on artificial intelligence research since 1996. His focus is on using sophisticated machine learning techniques to approach large-scale problems in natural language. He is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at the Université de Montréal, studying deep learning methods with Professor Yoshua Bengio, Canada Research Chair in Statistical Learning Algorithms. Dr. Turian defended his dissertation, “Constituent Parsing by Classification” at New York University. He received his AB from Harvard University in Computer Science (cum laude). HACKER BIO: “Dad! Type ‘get sword’” I would say as we played King’s Quest I together, back when I was a pre-schooler. This is how I learned to read and write, before ever picking up a book: by playing text-based adventure games with my Dad. I’ve been a serious hacker for at least 2/3’s of my lifespan, having picked up C programming at around 10. At age 15, I was one of four high school students chosen to represent the United States in the international computing olympiad (IOI). At 18, I and two other students from Harvard gained 8th place in the world in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. So basically, I’m a dyed-in-the-wool hacker.
Bio from the period BIL record (source).
Talks
- Deep Learning for Artificial Intelligence — BIL 2009