Faculty

Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Degrees and Appointments
B.Sc., Cairo University, 1979; M.S.E.E., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1981; Ph.D., Caltech, 1983. Garrett Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering, 1983; Assistant Professor, 1983-89; Associate Professor, 1989-94; Professor, 1994-.
Assistant(s)
Research Group Matters
Lucinda Acosta
150 Moore Laboratory
(626) 395-4843
lucinda@caltech.edu
Research Overview
Machine learning applies to any situation where there is data that we are trying to make sense of, and a target function that we cannot mathematically pin down. The spectrum of applications is huge, going from financial forecasting to medical diagnosis to industrial inspection to recommendation systems, to name a few. The field encompasses neural networks, statistical inference, and data mining.
List of Research Areas
machine learning, artificial intelligence, neural networks, computational finance, probability and statistics
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