Textbook of AI

1961–, Computer scientist

Corinna Cortes is a Danish-American computer scientist who, with Vladimir Vapnik at Bell Labs, co-authored the 1995 paper Support-Vector Networks introducing the soft-margin support vector machine and the modern formulation of the kernel trick. The paper has been cited tens of thousands of times and made SVMs the dominant supervised-learning method for the next decade.

Cortes joined Google Research in 2003 and became head of Google Research New York. Her work has spanned data mining, recommender systems and large-scale machine learning. She is also a semi-professional handball player and represented Denmark in international competition.