{{Short description|American computer scientist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Rob Fergus | fields = Computer science<br>Machine learning<br>Deep learning | workplaces = New York University<br>Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences<br>DeepMind<br>Meta AI (co-founder) | alma_mater = University of Oxford<br>University of Cambridge | known_for = ZFNet<br>Co-founding Meta AI<br>Co-founding CILVR Lab }} '''Rob Fergus''' is a British-American computer scientist working primarily in the fields of machine learning, deep learning, representational learning, and generative models.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=PmWiki - HomePage |url=https://cs.nyu.edu/~fergus/pmwiki/pmwiki.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240606095546/https://cs.nyu.edu/~fergus/pmwiki/pmwiki.php |archive-date=2024-06-06 |access-date=2024-07-28 |website=cs.nyu.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Rob Fergus |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=GgQ9GEkAAAAJ&hl=en |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240606142555/https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=GgQ9GEkAAAAJ&hl=en |archive-date=2024-06-06 |access-date=2024-07-28 |website=scholar.google.com}}</ref> He is a professor of computer science at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University (NYU) and a research scientist at DeepMind.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Shead |first=Sam |date=2021-03-11 |title=DeepMind is building a team of A.I. researchers in New York |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/11/google-deepmind-selects-new-york-for-new-ai-research-hub.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231216071323/https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/11/google-deepmind-selects-new-york-for-new-ai-research-hub.html |archive-date=2023-12-16 |access-date=2024-07-28 |website=CNBC |language=en}}</ref> Fergus developed ZFNet in 2013 together with M.D. Zeiler, his PhD student in NYU.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hassanien |first=Aboul Ella |title=Artificial Intelligence: A Real Opportunity in the Food Industry |last2=Soliman |first2=Mona |publisher=Springer Nature |year=2022 |isbn=978-3-031-13702-0 |pages=65 |language=en}}</ref>
Fergus co-founded Meta AI (then known as Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR)) along with Yann Le Cun in September 2013.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mlot |first=Stephanie |date=2023-12-10 |title=Facebook Hires NYU Professors for Artificial Intelligence Lab |url=https://www.pcmag.com/news/facebook-hires-nyu-professors-for-artificial-intelligence-lab |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240417055306/https://www.pcmag.com/news/facebook-hires-nyu-professors-for-artificial-intelligence-lab |archive-date=2024-04-17 |access-date=2024-07-28 |website=PCMAG |language=en}}</ref> In 2009, Rob Fergus co-founded the Computational Intelligence, Learning, Vision, and Robotics (CILVR) Lab at NYU along with Yann Le Cun.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About CILVR |url=https://wp.nyu.edu/cilvr/about-cilvr/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230308113616/https://wp.nyu.edu/cilvr/about-cilvr/ |archive-date=2023-03-08 |access-date=2024-07-28 |website=wp.nyu.edu}}</ref>
== Awards and recognition == Rob Fergus has been recognized in academia and received the following awards:<ref>{{Cite web |title=Faculty Recognition {{!}} NYU Courant |url=https://cims.nyu.edu/dynamic/research/recognition/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240726231640/http://www.cims.nyu.edu/about/scientific.html |archive-date=2024-07-26 |access-date=2024-07-29 |website=cims.nyu.edu}}</ref>
* NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) * Sloan Research Fellowship * Test-of-time awards at ECCV, CVPR and ICLR
== Notable PhD students == * Matt Zeiler (Clarifai founder) * Wojciech Zaremba (OpenAI co-founder) * Denis Yarats (Perplexity co-founder) * Alex Rives (EvolutionaryScale co-founder; faculty at MIT)
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