UC3M celebrates University Day
Lecturer Zoubin Ghahramani will be awarded an honorary doctorate
3/21/22
Next Thursday, 24th of March, in the Aula Magna of UC3M's Getafe campus, as part of the official University Day ceremony for the 2021/22 academic year, lecturer and researcher Zoubin Ghahramani will be awarded an honorary doctorate, for his relevant professional and academic merits. The special doctorate prizes for the 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 graduating classes will also be awarded.
Zoubin Ghahramani (Iran, 1970) is a lecturer and computer engineering researcher at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). He has a Bachelor's Degree in Cognitive Science and Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He has made significant contributions in the areas of machine learning, graphical modelling, and computational neuroscience. He has also worked on artificial intelligence, information retrieval, bioinformatics and statistics. He has published more than 200 articles and received more than 30,000 citations in scientific journals. In 2014 he founded Geometrics Intelligence, a startup-laboratory for research on topics related to artificial intelligence and machine learning. Since 2021, he has been Senior Director of Google Brain, a division of Google dedicated to open machine learning research with large-scale information systems and computing resources.
In 2015, he was elected to the Royal Society, an honorary title granted by the Royal Society of London for the Advancement of Natural Science and which recognises the most relevant scientists in their areas of knowledge.
The laudatio about Ghahramani will be given by Lecturer Antonio Artés, from UC3M's Department of Signal Theory and Communications.
