Isabelle Guyon

Isabelle Guyon

Isabelle Guyon is Director, Research Scientist at Google, in detachment from her position as professor of Artificial Intelligence at Université Paris-Saclay (Orsay). She specializes in data-centric AI, statistical data analysis, pattern recognition, and machine learning. Her areas of expertise include computer vision, bioinformatics, and power systems. She has been a strong promoter of challenges and benchmarks. Her recent interests include AI-assisted human communication. Prior to joining Paris-Saclay she worked as an independent consultant and was a researcher at AT&T Bell Laboratories, where she pioneered applications of neural networks in the 80’s with Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio, among others. She is president of Chalearn, a non-profit dedicated to organizing challenges in machine learning, community lead of Codalab competitions a challenge organization platform, action editor of the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), co-editor of the Data-Centric Machine Learning Research Journal (DMLR), and served as program co-chair of NIPS 2016 and general co-chair of NIPS 2017. She is the 2020 recipient of the BBVA Frontiers in Research Award together with Prof. Schoelkopf and Prof. Vapnik for contributions to kernel methods (including the invention of Support Vector Machines) and to causality in machine learning.

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