David Meir Blei is a professor in the Statistics and Computer Science departments at

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. Prior to fall 2014 he was an associate professor in the Department of

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. His work is primarily in

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

Research

His research interests include

topic model In statistics and natural language processing, a topic model is a type of statistical model for discovering the abstract "topics" that occur in a collection of documents. Topic modeling is a frequently used text-mining tool for discovery of hidden ...

s and he was one of the original developers of

latent Dirichlet allocation In natural language processing, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a generative statistical model that explains a set of observations through unobserved groups, and each group explains why some parts of the data are similar. The LDA is an exa ...

, along with

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and

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. As of June 18, 2020, his publications have been cited 109,821 times, giving him an

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of 97.

Honors and awards

Blei received the ACM Infosys Foundation Award in 2013. (This award is given to a computer scientist under the age of 45. It has since been renamed the ACM Prize in Computing.) He was named Fellow of

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"For contributions to the theory and practice of probabilistic topic modeling and Bayesian machine learning" in 2015.

References

External links

Homepage

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (PDF)

ACM-Infosys Foundation Award, 2013
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