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David Blei
Professor of Statistics and Computer Science at Columbia University
David Blei co-developed latent Dirichlet allocation, a widely used method for discovering topics in large collections of documents. His research builds statistical tools that help uncover hidden patterns in data, with applications across science and industry.
Career & education
Current roleColumbia University2025-presentProfessor of Statistics and Computer Science
Columbia University2025-presentPreviouslyColumbia University2014-2024Professor of Statistics and Computer Science
Princeton University2006-2014Assistant and Associate Professor of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University2004-2006Postdoctoral Fellow, Machine Learning
Columbia University2014-2024Princeton University2006-2014Carnegie Mellon University2004-2006Education
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations169,740As of Oct 11, '26
Selected contributions
Latent Dirichlet Allocation
With Andrew Ng and Michael I. JordanIntroduced a method for discovering topics in large document collections, treating each document as a mixture of themes and each theme as a pattern of words.
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