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D-Index
70
Citations
331193
World Ranking
1811
National Ranking
915

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
  • 2017 - IEEE John von Neumann Medal “For the development of statistical learning theory, the theoretical foundations for machine learning, and support vector machines.”
  • 2012 - Benjamin Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute
  • 2012 - IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award
  • 2010 - Neural Networks Pioneer Award, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
  • 2008 - ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award For the development of Support Vector Machines, a highly effective algorithm for classification and related machine learning problems.
  • 2006 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For insights into the fundamental complexities of learning and for inventing practical and widely applied machine-learning algorithms.

Overview

Vladimir Vapnik is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States and has contributed to the field of Computer Science, particularly through work in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Their research spans several main topics including Neural Networks and Applications, Face and Expression Recognition, and Machine Learning and Extreme Learning Machines (ELM).

Their recent publication includes a paper titled "Reinforced SVM method and memorization mechanisms" published in 2021 in the journal Pattern Recognition. This work has been cited 61 times. Pattern Recognition is also the primary venue for their publications.

  • Rauf Izmailov

  • Pattern Recognition

  • Computer Science

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

  • Neural Networks and Applications
  • Face and Expression Recognition
  • Machine Learning and ELM

Vladimir Vapnik's career includes recognition through several awards. These include the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in 2019 and the IEEE John von Neumann Medal in 2017, awarded for the development of statistical learning theory, theoretical foundations for machine learning, and support vector machines.

Other honors include the Benjamin Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute and the IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award, both received in 2012, the Neural Networks Pioneer Award from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society in 2010, and the ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award in 2008 for the development of Support Vector Machines.

Vapnik was also inducted as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 for insights into the fundamental complexities of learning and inventing practical machine-learning algorithms.

Best Publications

  • The Nature of Statistical Learning Theory

    Vladimir N. Vapnik

  • Statistical learning theory

    Vladimir Naumovich Vapnik

  • Support-Vector Networks

    Corinna Cortes;Vladimir Vapnik

  • Support-vector networks

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  • A training algorithm for optimal margin classifiers

    Bernhard E. Boser;Isabelle M. Guyon;Vladimir N. Vapnik

  • Gene Selection for Cancer Classification using Support Vector Machines

    Isabelle Guyon;Jason Weston;Stephen Barnhill;Vladimir Vapnik

  • On the Uniform Convergence of Relative Frequencies of Events to Their Probabilities

    Vladimir Vapnik;A. Ya. Chervonenkis

  • Support Vector Regression Machines

    Harris Drucker;Christopher J. C. Burges;Linda Kaufman;Alex J. Smola

  • An overview of statistical learning theory

    V.N. Vapnik

  • Estimation of Dependences Based on Empirical Data

    Vladimir Naumovich Vapnik

  • Support Vector Method for Function Approximation, Regression Estimation and Signal Processing

    Vladimir Vapnik;Steven E. Golowich;Alex J. Smola

  • The Nature of Statistical Learning

    V. N. Vapnik

  • Choosing Multiple Parameters for Support Vector Machines

    Olivier Chapelle;Vladimir Vapnik;Olivier Bousquet;Sayan Mukherjee

  • Support Vector Method for Multivariate Density Estimation

    Vladimir Vapnik;Sayan Mukherjee

  • Support vector machines for histogram-based image classification

    O. Chapelle;P. Haffner;V.N. Vapnik

  • Support vector machines for spam categorization

    H. Drucker;Donghui Wu;V.N. Vapnik

  • Support vector clustering

    Asa Ben-Hur;David Horn;Hava T. Siegelmann;Vladimir Vapnik

  • Comparing support vector machines with Gaussian kernels to radial basis function classifiers

    B. Scholkopf;Kah-Kay Sung;C.J.C. Burges;F. Girosi

  • Pattern recognition using generalized portrait method

    V. Vapnik

  • Feature Selection for SVMs

    Jason Weston;Sayan Mukherjee;Olivier Chapelle;Massimiliano Pontil

  • Predicting Time Series with Support Vector Machines

    Klaus-Robert Müller;Alex J. Smola;Gunnar Rätsch;Bernhard Schölkopf

Frequent Co-Authors

Léon Bottou
Léon Bottou Facebook (United States)
Corinna Cortes
Corinna Cortes Google (United States)
Isabelle Guyon
Isabelle Guyon University of Paris-Saclay
Bernhard Schölkopf
Bernhard Schölkopf Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Olivier Chapelle
Olivier Chapelle Google (United States)
Lawrence D. Jackel
Lawrence D. Jackel Toyota Research Institute
Patrice Y. Simard
Patrice Y. Simard Microsoft (United States)
Jason Weston
Jason Weston Facebook (United States)
Yann LeCun
Yann LeCun Facebook (United States)
Alexander Gammerman
Alexander Gammerman Royal Holloway University of London

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