Textbook of AI

1968–, Computer scientist

Daphne Koller is an Israeli-American computer scientist who, with Nir Friedman, wrote Probabilistic Graphical Models: Principles and Techniques (2009), the standard textbook of the field. Her 2003–2010 Stanford research programme produced foundational work on relational and first-order probabilistic models, on knowledge-based model construction, and on probabilistic models for biomedicine and gene expression.

In 2011 she co-founded Coursera with Andrew Ng, becoming its co-CEO. In 2018 she founded Insitro, a drug-discovery company applying machine learning to biology. She has shifted much of her career emphasis from AI to AI-for-biology and AI-for-medicine.