Mark Schmidt

Associate Professor

Office
ICCS
193
Office Phone #
604-822-6421 (Rarely answered; email preferred)

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)

Interest Keywords

Machine Learning; Numerical Optimization

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.

Research Interests

machine learning

Latest Courses

2022 Winter

CPSC 532M - Topics in Artificial Intelligence
CPSC 340 - Machine Learning and Data Mining
CPSC 340 - Machine Learning and Data Mining

2021 Winter

CPSC 540 - Machine Learning
CPSC 440 - Advanced Machine Learning

2020 Winter

CPSC 540 - Machine Learning
CPSC 440 - Advanced Machine Learning

2019 Winter

CPSC 540 - Machine Learning
CPSC 532M - Topics in Artificial Intelligence
CPSC 340 - Machine Learning and Data Mining
CPSC 340 - Machine Learning and Data Mining

2018 Winter

CPSC 540 - Machine Learning
CPSC 532M - Topics in Artificial Intelligence
CPSC 340 - Machine Learning and Data Mining

2017 Winter

CPSC 540 - Machine Learning
CPSC 340 - Machine Learning and Data Mining

2016 Winter

CPSC 540 - Machine Learning
CPSC 340 - Machine Learning and Data Mining

2015 Winter

CPSC 540 - Machine Learning
CPSC 340 - Machine Learning and Data Mining

2014 Winter

CPSC 540 - Machine Learning