Chris Maddison

Assistant Professor | On Leave
Ontario Power Building, 700 University Ave., Room: 9198
cmaddis@cs.toronto.edu

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Cross-Appointments

Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

Fields of Study

  • Statistical Computing

Areas of Interest

Bayesian inference, Search and Machine Learning, Deep Learning

Biography

Chris Maddison is an assistant professor in computer science and statistics at the University of Toronto and a Canada CIFAR Chair in AI at the Vector Institute. He is an Open Philanthropy AI Fellow, and was one of the founding members of the AlphaGo project at DeepMind. Chris was a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, and did his DPhil at the University of Oxford with Arnaud Doucet and Yee Whye Teh.