Daphne Koller is a Professor

Professor

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 in the Department of Computer Science

Computer science

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 at Stanford University

Stanford University

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 and a MacArthur Fellowship

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 recipient. Her general research area is artificial intelligence

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 and its applications in the biomedical sciences. Koller was featured in an article by MIT Technology Review

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 titled "10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change Your World" concerning the topic of Bayesian

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 Machine Learning

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She went to college at the age of 13, completed her Bachelors degree at 17 and her Masters at 18.

Koller completed her Ph.D. at Stanford in 1993 under the supervision of Joseph Halpern

Joseph Halpern

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, and joined the faculty of the Stanford University Computer Science Department in 1995. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2004.

In April 2008, Daphne Koller was awarded the first-ever $150,000 ACM

Association for Computing Machinery

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-Infosys Foundation

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Award in Computing Sciences.