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Michael I. Jordan
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🇺🇸 AmericanBorn 1956
Jordan helped make probability a central language of machine learning, giving AI practical ways to reason when information is incomplete or uncertain.[1] He also co-created LDA, a widely used method for uncovering themes in large text collections[2], and mentored generations of researchers who became leaders in the field.[3]
Career & education
Current roles
Previously
UC Berkeley1998-2024Professor
MIT1988-1998Professor
UC Berkeley1998-2024MIT1988-1998Work 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.
citations387,385As of Nov 1, '26
citations+5,147Since last snapshot, Oct 1, '26
Selected contributions
Latent Dirichlet Allocation
With David Blei and Andrew NgDiscovers topics in document collections by treating each document as a mixture of themes.
Chatbot Arena: An Open Platform for Evaluating LLMs by Human Preference
With Wei-Lin Chiang, Lianmin Zheng, Ying Sheng, Anastasios Angelopoulos, Tianle (Tim) Li, Dacheng Li, Hao Zhang and others ·Presented Chatbot Arena, comparing language models through people's votes on anonymous answers.
References
- BBVA — Jordan’s foundational probabilistic learning contributionsbbva.com
Jordan helped make probability a central language of machine learning, giving AI practical ways to reason when information is incomplete or uncertain.
- Latent Dirichlet Allocation — original paperjmlr.org
He also co-created LDA, a widely used method for uncovering themes in large text collections
- Michael I. Jordan — current and former research studentspeople.eecs.berkeley.edu
and mentored generations of researchers who became leaders in the field.
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