Mark Schmidt

Scientific Advisor

Mark Schmidt is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on machine learning and numerical optimization. He is a Canada Research Chair, Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, CIFAR Canada AI Chair with the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii), and was awarded the more-recent SIAM/MOS Lagrange Prize in Continuous Optimization with Nicolas Le Roux and Francis Bach.