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Taco Cohen
Senior Staff Engineer, Qualcomm Technologies Netherlands B.V.
Taco Cohen is a machine learning researcher at Qualcomm AI Research in Amsterdam. He was a co-founder of Scyfer, a company focused on active deep learning, acquired by Qualcomm in 2017. He holds a BSc in theoretical computer science from Utrecht University and a MSc in artificial intelligence from the University of Amsterdam (both cum laude). He is finishing his PhD in machine learning at the University of Amsterdam, under the supervision of prof. Max Welling. His research is focused on deep-learning based source compression, as well as equivariant networks, data-efficient deep learning, and learning on non-Euclidean domains. He has done internships at Google DeepMind (working with Geoff Hinton) and OpenAI. He received the 2014 University of Amsterdam thesis prize, a Google PhD Fellowship, ICLR 2018 best paper award for “Spherical CNNs”, and was named one of 35 innovators under 35 in Europe by MIT in 2018.
Chirag Patel
Senior Staff Engineer
Qualcomm Technologies Netherlands B.V.
Taco Cohen is a machine learning researcher at Qualcomm AI Research in Amsterdam. He was a co-founder of Scyfer, a company focused on active deep learning, acquired by Qualcomm in 2017. He holds a BSc in theoretical computer science from Utrecht University and a MSc in artificial intelligence from the University of Amsterdam (both cum laude). He is finishing his PhD in machine learning at the University of Amsterdam, under the supervision of prof. Max Welling. His research is focused on deep-learning based source compression, as well as equivariant networks, data-efficient deep learning, and learning on non-Euclidean domains. He has done internships at Google DeepMind (working with Geoff Hinton) and OpenAI. He received the 2014 University of Amsterdam thesis prize, a Google PhD Fellowship, ICLR 2018 best paper award for “Spherical CNNs”, and was named one of 35 innovators under 35 in Europe by MIT in 2018.
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