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Yoav Freund

Yoav Freund is an Israeli computer scientist at the University of California San Diego, known for developing the AdaBoost algorithm with Robert Schapire.

born 1961The AdaBoost algorithmMachine learning researchThe 2003 Gödel Prize

Born: 4 May 1961, Israel
Occupation: computer scientist, engineer
Education: University of California, Santa Cruz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Yoav Freund was born in 1961 in Israel

Yoav Freund was born on May 4, 1961, in Jerusalem. His parents are Ora and Rafi Freund. He attended the Hebrew University High School.

He began his academic path in the Talpiot program of the Israeli army. He also studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1993 he completed a PhD at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

He became a professor of computer science at the University of California San Diego. His research focuses on machine learning, probability theory and their applications. With Robert Schapire he developed AdaBoost, an ensemble method that combines many weak learners into a stronger one.

For the work on AdaBoost he and Schapire received the Gödel Prize in 2003. He received the Paris Kanellakis Award in 2004. In 2008 he was elected an AAAI Fellow.