Vladimir Vapnik is one of the main developers of
Statistical Learning Theory[?]. He was born in Russia; received a Master's Degree in Mathematics from the Uzbek State University in Samarkand, in 1958; and received a Ph.D in Statistics from the Institute of Control Science in Moscow, in 1964. At
AT&T Bell (later Shannon) Labs from 1991 through 2001?, Vapnik and his colleagues developed the theory of the
Support Vector Machine. They demonstrated its performance on a number of problems of interest to the
machine learning community, including
handwriting recognition. He is currently at NEC Laboratories in
Princeton, New Jersey, and also
Princeton University.
