Ben Taskar

Ben Taskar
Born March 3, 1977
Died November 18, 2013 (2013-11-19) (aged 36)
Fields Computer Science, Machine Learning and Statistical relational learning
Institutions University of Pennsylvania, and University of Washington, Seattle
Alma mater Stanford University
Doctoral advisor Daphne Koller
Known for Statistical relational learning, Graphical models
Website
www.seas.upenn.edu/~taskar

Ben Taskar (March 3, 1977 – November 18, 2013) was a professor and researcher in the area of machine learning and applications to computational linguistics and computer vision. He was a Magerman Term Associate Professor for Computer and Information Science at University of Pennsylvania. He co-directed PRiML: Penn Research in Machine Learning, a joint venture between the School of Engineering and Wharton. He was also a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Annenberg Center for Public Policy. At the University of Washington, he held the Boeing Professorship.

He was the first person to define Max-margin Markov networks and a pioneer in statistical relational learning.

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