Jason Weston is a research scientist at Facebook, NY and a Visiting Research Professor at NYU. He
earned his PhD in machine learning at Royal Holloway, University of London
and at AT&T Research in Red Bank, NJ (advisors: Alex Gammerman, Volodya
Vovk and Vladimir Vapnik) in 2000. From 2000 to 2001, he was a researcher
at Biowulf technologies. From 2002 to 2003 he was a research
scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics,
Tuebingen, Germany. From 2003 to 2009 he was a research staff member at
NEC Labs America, Princeton. From 2009 to 2014 he was a research scientist
at Google, NY. His interests lie in statistical machine learning, with a focus on reasoning, memory, perception, interaction and communication. Jason has published over 100
papers, including best paper awards at ICML and ECML, and a Test of Time Award for his work "A Unified Architecture for Natural Language Processing: Deep Neural Networks with Multitask Learning", ICML 2008 (with Ronan Collobert).
He was part of the YouTube team that won a National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Emmy Award for Technology and Engineering for Personalized Recommendation Engines for Video Discovery. He was listed as the 16th most influential machine learning scholar at <a href="https://aminer.org/mostinfluentialscholar/ml">AMiner</a>
and  one of the top 50 authors
in Computer Science in <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/who-s-michael-jordan-computer-science-new-tool-ranks-researchers-influence"><em>Science</em></a>.