Corinna Cortes is a Danish computer scientist known for her contributions to

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 ...

. She is currently the Head of Google Research,

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. Cortes is a recipient of the

Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award The Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award is granted yearly by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to honor "specific theoretical accomplishments that have had a significant and demonstrable effect on the practice of computing". It wa ...

for her work on theoretical foundations of

support vector machine In machine learning, support vector machines (SVMs, also support vector networks) are supervised learning models with associated learning algorithms that analyze data for classification and regression analysis. Developed at AT&T Bell Laborat ...

Early life

Corinna Cortes was born in 1961 in Denmark.

Education and research

Cortes received her M.S. degree in physics from

University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen ( da, Københavns Universitet, KU) is a prestigious public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in ...

in 1989. In the same year she joined

AT&T Bell Labs Nokia Bell Labs, originally named Bell Telephone Laboratories (1925–1984), then AT&T Bell Laboratories (1984–1996) and Bell Labs Innovations (1996–2007), is an American industrial research and scientific development company owned by mult ...

as a researcher and remained there for about ten years. She received her Ph.D. in computer science from the

University of Rochester The University of Rochester (U of R, UR, or U of Rochester) is a private research university in Rochester, New York. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The University of ...

in 1993. Since 2003, she has served as the Head of Google Research,

, and since 2011, as adjunct professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen. She is an Editorial Board member of the journal

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 ...

. Cortes' research covers a wide range of topics in

, including

s and data mining. At AT&T, Cortes helped write the data mining programming language

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. In 2008, she jointly with

Vladimir Vapnik Vladimir Naumovich Vapnik (russian: Владимир Наумович Вапник; born 6 December 1936) is one of the main developers of the Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory of statistical learning, and the co-inventor of the support-vector machin ...

received the

for the development of a highly effective algorithm for

supervised learning Supervised learning (SL) is a machine learning paradigm for problems where the available data consists of labelled examples, meaning that each data point contains features (covariates) and an associated label. The goal of supervised learning alg ...

known as support vector machines (SVM). Today, SVM is one of the most frequently used algorithms in machine learning, which is used in many practical applications, including

medical diagnosis Medical diagnosis (abbreviated Dx, Dx, or Ds) is the process of determining which disease or condition explains a person's symptoms and signs. It is most often referred to as diagnosis with the medical context being implicit. The information r ...

and

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Personal life

Corinna has two children and is also a competitive runner.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cortes, Corinna Living people University of Copenhagen alumni University of Rochester alumni American computer scientists Artificial intelligence researchers Machine learning researchers Year of birth missing (living people) American women computer scientists Google employees Scientists at Bell Labs 21st-century American women