Carlos Guestrin


Carlos Ernesto Guestrin is a Brazilian computer scientist and a professor at Stanford University. He is best known for his contributions to scalable machine learning algorithms.

Biography

Guestrin was born in Argentina in 1975, but went on to be raised in Brazil. He received a Mechatronics Engineer degree from the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University, advised by Daphne Koller. Guestrin went on to work as professor at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Washington, and Stanford University. He was a co-founder of Turi, a machine learning startup that was acquired by Apple Inc. in 2016. After selling the startup, Guestrin worked at Apple as the Senior Director of Machine Learning and AI.
Guestrin was involved in the creation of various popular machine learning libraries and methods, including the XGBoost library, the LIME technique for explainable machine learning, and the GraphLab project for scalable machine learning.

Honors and awards

Guestin has received multiple honors and awards, including: