Michael I. Jordan

Biographical highlights

• Directeur de Recherche, Inria and l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, 2023-present
• Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, 2024-present
• Professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1998-2024
• Professor, MIT, 1988-1998
• Docteur Honoris Causa, l'Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 2026
• Honorary Doctorate, Yale University, 2020
• Laureate Professor, Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, 2020-present
• Honorary Professor, Peking University, 2018-present
• Distinguished Visiting Professor, Tsinghua University, 2017-2019
• Chaire d'Excellence, Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris, 2012
• Foreign Member of the Royal Society
• Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Member, National Academy of Sciences
• Member, National Academy of Engineering
• Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Member, Accademia di Ingegneria e Tecnologia (Italian Academy of Engineering and Technology)
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Fellow of the AAAI, AAIA, ACM, ASA, CSS, IEEE, IMS, ISBA and SIAM
• Elected Member, International Statistical Institute
• Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) Wald Memorial Award and Lecture, 2028
• BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communication Technologies, 2025
• International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS) Frontiers of Science Award (with John Duchi and Martin Wainwright), 2025
• International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS) Frontiers of Science Award (with Yuchen Zhang, Mingsheng Long, Kaiyuan Chen, Lanxiang Xing, Ronghua Jin, and Jianmin Wang), 2025
• Laureate Distinguished Fellow, International Engineering and Technology Institute, 2025
• Academy Award, National Academy of Artificial Intelligence (NAAI), 2025
• World Laureates Association (WLA) Prize, 2022
• Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) Grace Wahba Lecturer, 2022
• American Mathematical Society (AMS) Ulf Grenander Prize in Stochastic Theory and Modeling, 2021
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) John von Neumann Medal, 2020
• Plenary Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians, 2018
• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) Research Excellence Award, 2016
• David E. Rumelhart Prize, 2015
• Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) Neyman Lecture, 2011
• Association for Computing Machinery/Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (ACM/AAAI) Allen Newell Award, 2009
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Activity Group on Optimization Prize, 2008
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Neural Networks Pioneer Award, 2006
• Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) Medallion Lecture, 2004
• Co-Founder, Anyscale Inc
• Co-Founder, Arena Inc
• Board Member, United Masters LLC
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Current PhD students and postdocs (zoom 2021) (photo 2020)

• Nivasini Ananthakrishnan
• Liviu Aolaritei
• Eugene Berta
• Nabil Boukir
• Sacha Braun
• Linda Cai
• Aymeric Capitaine
• Yurong Chen
• Tiffany Ding
• Etienne Gauthier
• Paula Gradu
• Tianyu Guo
• Mahmoud Hegazy
• Xinyan Hu
• Baihe Huang
• Jivat Neet Kaur
• Brian Lee
• Drew Nguyen
• Ezinne Nwankwo
• Ricardo Sandoval
• Antoine Scheid
• Annie Ulichney
• Francisca Vasconcelos
• Ian Waudby-Smith
• Xuelin Yang

Past PhD students and postdocs (photo 2013) (photo 2010)

• Ahmed El Alaoui, Assistant Professor, Cornell University
• Elaine Angelino, Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Berkeley
• Anastasios Angelopoulos, Assistant Professor, Stanford University
• Francis Bach, Research Professor, Ecole Normale Supérieure
• Stephen Bates, Assistant Professor, MIT
• Yoshua Bengio, Professor, Université de Montréal
• Chiranjib Bhattacharyya, Professor, Indian Institute of Science
• David Blei, Professor, Columbia University
• Ben Blum, Novelist, Brooklyn, NY
• Peter Bodik, Research Scientist, Microsoft Research
• Nicholas Boyd, Researcher, Atomic AI
• Alexandre Bouchard-Côté, Associate Professor, University of British Columbia
• Pierre Boyeau, Postdoctoral Researcher, Broad Institute
• Sarah Brown, Assistant Professor, University of Rhode Island
• Tamara Broderick, Associate Professor, MIT
• Akosua Busia, Machine Learning Scientist, Dyno Therapeutics
• Venkat Chandrasekaran, Professor, Caltech
• Tatjana Chavdarova, Assistant Professor, Saarland University
• Xiang Cheng, Assistant Professor, Duke University
• Elynn Yi Chen, Assistant Professor, NYU
• Xi Chen, Professor, NYU
• Jianbo Chen, Researcher, Citadel
• David Cohn, Senior Research Scientist, Google
• Xiaowu Dai, Assistant Professor, UCLA
• Jelena Diakonikolas, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin
• Carlotta Domeniconi, Professor, George Mason University
• John Duchi, Associate Professor, Stanford University
• Melih Elibol, Senior Research Scientist, Nvidia
• Barbara Engelhardt, Professor, Stanford University
• Alireza Fallah, Assistant Professor, Rice University
• Clara Fannjiang, Research Scientist, Genentech
• Nicolas Flammarion, Assistant Professor, EPFL
• Emily Fox, Professor, Stanford University
• Patrick Flaherty, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Guilherme França, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Berkeley
• Mariano Gabitto, Assistant Investigator, Allen Institute for Brain Science
• Nikhil Garg, Assistant Professor, MIT
• Zoubin Ghahramani, Professor, University of Cambridge
• Ryan Giordano, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley
• Joseph Gonzalez, Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley
• Wenshuo Guo, Global Macroeconomist, Balyasny
• Nhat Ho, Assistant Professor, University of Texas
• Thomas Hofmann, Professor, ETH Zürich
• John Houde, Associate Professor, University of California, San Francisco
• Chris Hundt, Software Engineer, Judicata
• Tommi Jaakkola, Professor, MIT
• Robert Jacobs, Professor, University of Rochester
• Meena Jagadeesan, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
• Stefanie Jegelka, Associate Professor, MIT
• Chi Jin, Assistant Professor, Princeton
• Kirthevasan Kandasamy, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin
• Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California
• Koulik Khamaru, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University
• Karl Krauth, Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University
• Gad Kimmel, Researcher, Financial Algorithms Israel
• Ariel Kleiner, AI Research Manager, Google
• Simon Lacoste-Julien, Associate Professor, Université de Montréal
• Gert Lanckriet, Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego
• Jason Lee, Associate Professor, Princeton University
• Lihua Lei, Assistant Professor, Stanford University
• Jordan Lekeufack Sopze Researcher, Voleon Capital Management
• Junchi Li, Shanghai, China
• Percy Liang, Associate Professor, Stanford University
• Tianyi Lin, Assistant Professor, Columbia University
• Lydia Liu, Assistant Professor, Princeton University
• Eric Loeb, Lead Data Scientist, Booz Allen Hamilton
• Mingsheng Long, Associate Professor, Tsinghua University
• Romain Lopez, Assistant Professor, New York University
• Justin Ma, Software Engineer, Google
• Yi-An Ma, Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego
• Lester Mackey, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
• Horia Mania, Quantitative Researcher, Citadel Securities
• Marios Mantakas, Associate Professor, Technological Institute of Epirus
• Eric Mazumdar, Assistant Professor, Caltech
• Jon McAuliffe, Adjunct Professor, University of California, Berkeley
• Marina Meila, Professor, University of Washington
• Kurt Miller, Quantitative Researcher, Process Driven Trading
• Teodor Moldovan, Senior Research Engineer, Citadel Securities
• Philipp Moritz, Chief Technology Officer, Anyscale
• Michael Muehlebach, Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute
• Sarah Moussa, Senior Software Engineer, Google
• XuanLong Nguyen, Professor, University of Michigan
• Andrew Ng, Adjunct Professor, Stanford University
• Robert Nishihara, Co-Founder, Anyscale
• Guillaume Obozinski, Deputy Chief Data Scientist, Swiss Data Science Center
• Aldo Pacchiano, Assistant Professor, Boston University
• John Paisley, Associate Professor, Columbia University
• Xinghao Pan, Senior Research Scientist, DSO National Laboraties, Singapore
• Reese Pathak, Assistant Professor, Cornell University
• Chara Podimata, Assistant Professor, MIT
• Elior Rahmani, Assistant Professor, Stanford University
• Jeff Regier, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
• Michal Rosen-Zvi, Director, IBM Research
• Feng Ruan, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin
• Aaditya Ramdas, Assistant Professor, CMU
• Esther Rolf, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado
• Max Rabinovich, Research Scientist, Google
• Philip Sabes, Professor, University of California, San Francisco
• Sriram Sankararaman, Associate Professor, UCLA
• Purnamrita Sarkar, Associate Professor, University of Texas
• Lawrence Saul, Senior Research Scientist, Flatiron Institute
• Adam Sealfon, Research Scientist, Google
• Matthias Seeger, Senior Machine Learning Scientist, Amazon
• Fei Sha, Professor, University of Southern California
• Bin Shi, Research Scientist, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Alex Shyr, Head of Data Science, Next Insurance
• Max Simchowitz, Assistant Professor, CMU
• Alex Simma, Financial Researcher, Tower Research Capital
• Satinder Singh, Professor, University of Michigan
• Virginia Smith, Associate Professor, CMU
• Jake Soloff, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Chicago
• Mitchell Stern, Research Scientist, Scaled Cognition
• Erik Sudderth, Professor, University of California, Irvine
• Charles Sutton, Senior Researcher, Google
• Ameet Talwalkar, Associate Professor, CMU
• Ben Taskar, Associate Professor, University of Washington
• Sekhar Tatikonda, Associate Professor, Yale University
• Yee-Whye Teh, Professor, University of Oxford
• Romain Thibaux, Software Engineer, Google
• Jennifer Tom, Senior Director, Delfi Diagnostics
• Daniel Ting, Research Scientist, Tableau Research
• Emanuel Todorov, Associate Professor, University of Washington
• Nilesh Tripuraneni, Research Scientist, Google
• Emmanouil-Vasileios Vlatakis-Gkaragkounis, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin
• Ellen Vitercik, Assistant Professor, Stanford University
• Brian Vogel, Software Engineer, Intel
• Neha Wadia, Postdoctoral Researcher, Flatiron Institute
• Martin Wainwright, Professor, MIT
• Serena Wang, Postdoctoral Researcher, Harvard
• Yixin Wang, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
• Mariel Werner, Berkeley, CA
• Fabian Wauthier, Senior Research Scientist, Amazon
• Alex Wei, Researcher, Open AI
• Yair Weiss, Professor, Hebrew University
• Fun Wey, CEO, Affineon Technologies
• Andre Wibisono, Assistant Professor, Yale University
• Ashia Wilson, Assistant Professor, MIT
• Daniel Wolpert, Professor, Columbia University
• Eric Xing, Professor, CMU
• Lei Xu, Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Yun Yang, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois
• Chiao-Yu Yang, Researcher, Voleon Capital Management
• Zhuoran Yang, Assistant Professor, Yale University
• Junming Yin, Assistant Professor, University of Arizona
• Yaodong Yu, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland
• Lydia Zakynthinou, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
• Manolis Zampetakis Assistant Professor, Yale University
• Chelsea Zhang, Quantitative Researcher, Two Sigma
• Yuchen Zhang, Research Scientist, ByteDance
• Zhihua Zhang, Professor, Peking University
• Eric Zhao, Research Scientist, Open AI
• Alice Zheng, Senior Manager, Amazon
• Angela Zhou, Assistant Professor, USC
• Banghua Zhu, Assistant Professor, University of Washington
• Tijana Zrnic, Assistant Professor, Stanford University