doctoral_advisor thesis_year work_institution thesis_title field known_for prizes article_title name alma_mater
ronald rivest 1991 at & t labs princeton university the design and analysis of efficient learning algorithms computer science adaboost gödel 2004 -rrb- prize -lrb- 2003 -rrb- paris kanellakis award -lrb- robert schapire
 robert elias schapire brown university massachusetts institute of technology
robert schapire

robert elias schapire is the david m. siegel '83 professor in the computer science department at princeton university .
his primary specialty is theoretical and applied machine learning .
his work led to the development of the boosting ensemble algorithm used in machine learning .
together with yoav freund , he invented the adaboost algorithm in 1996 .
he received the gödel prize in 2003 for his work on adaboost with yoav freund .
in 2014 , schapire was elected to the national academy of engineering for his contributions to machine learning through the invention and development of boosting algorithms .
