Rob Fergus

Rob Fergus is a British-American computer scientist working primarily in the fields of machine learning, deep learning, representational learning, and generative models. He is a professor of computer science at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University (NYU) and a research scientist at DeepMind. Fergus developed ZFNet in 2013 together with M.D. Zeiler, his PhD student in NYU.

Fergus co-founded Meta AI (then known as Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR)) along with Yann Le Cun in September 2013. In 2009, Rob Fergus co-founded the Computational Intelligence, Learning, Vision, and Robotics (CILVR) Lab at NYU along with Yann Le Cun.

Awards and recognition Rob Fergus has been recognized in academia and received the following awards:

NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Sloan Research Fellowship Test-of-time awards at ECCV, CVPR and ICLR

Notable PhD students Matt Zeiler (Clarifai founder) Wojciech Zaremba (OpenAI co-founder) Denis Yarats (Perplexity co-founder) Alex Rives (EvolutionaryScale co-founder; faculty at MIT)