Elad Hazan | |
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Nationality | Israeli-American |
Occupation(s) | Computer scientist, academic, author and researcher |
Awards | Bell Labs Prize Marie Curie Fellow, European Research Council Google Research Award Amazon Research Award |
Academic background | |
Education | B.Sc., Computer Science, Tel Aviv University M.Sc., Computer Science, Tel Aviv University Ph.D., Computer Science, Princeton University |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Princeton University |
Website | https://www.ehazan.com/ |
Elad Hazan is an Israeli-American computer scientist, academic, author and researcher. He is a Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, and the co-founder and director of Google AI Princeton.[1][2]
Hazan co-invented adaptive gradient methods and the AdaGrad algorithm. He has published over 150 articles and has several patents awarded. He has worked machine learning and mathematical optimization, and more recently on control theory and reinforcement learning.[3] He has authored a book, entitled Introduction to Online Convex Optimization. Hazan is the co-founder of In8 Inc., which was acquired by Google in 2018.[4]