John D. Lafferty

John D. Lafferty
Alma materPrinceton University (PhD, MA)
Middlebury College (BA)
Known forConditional Random Fields
AwardsIEEE Fellow (2007)[1]
Test-of-Time Award of ICML (2011,2012)[2][3]
Classic paper prizes of ICML (2013)[4]
Test of Time Award of SIGIR (2014)[5]
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
Machine Learning
InstitutionsYale University
University of Chicago
Carnegie Mellon University
IBM Research
Harvard University
Doctoral studentsChengXiang Zhai
Other notable studentsDavid Blei (Post Dr.)
Websiteseas.yale.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/john-lafferty

John D. Lafferty is an American scientist, Professor at Yale University and leading researcher in machine learning. He is best known for proposing the Conditional Random Fields with Andrew McCallum and Fernando C.N. Pereira.[4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference ieee07 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Test-of-Time Award ICML'11". ICML. 2011. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
  3. ^ "Test-of-Time Award ICML'12". ICML. 2012. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
  4. ^ a b "Two classic paper prizes for papers that appeared at ICML 2013". ICML. 2013. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
  5. ^ "SIGIR 2014 Best Paper Awards". SIGIR. 2014. Retrieved 15 December 2014.