Mark Schmidt
Associate Professor
Academic Information
Associate Professor, University of British Columbia (2019-Present); Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (2019-Present); Canada Research Chair in Large-Scale Machine Learning (2016-Present); Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia (2014-2019); Postdoc, Simon Fraser University (2013-2014); Postdoc, Ecole Normale Superieure (2011-2013); Postdoc, University of British Columbia (2010); Ph.D., University of British Columbia (2005-2010); M.Sc., University of Alberta (2003-2005); B.Sc., University of Alberta (2000-2003)
Research Areas
Research Groups
Interests
My work focuses on machine learning, which uses computers to automatically detect in patterns in data to help make predictions and/or decisions. My theoretical work focuses on improving the numerical optimization algorithms used in machine learning, while I work on a broad variety of machine learning applications.