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Biography

Michael I. Jordan is a Principal Researcher at Inria in Paris and the holder of the Pehong Chen Chair. He is a Distinguished Emeritus Professor in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He studied statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, earned a master’s degree in mathematics from Arizona State University, and completed a PhD in cognitive science in 1985 at the University of California, San Diego.

He was a professor at MIT from 1988 to 1998. His research work forges close connections among the computational, statistical, cognitive, biological, and social sciences.

Michael I. Jordan is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as a Foreign Member of the Royal Society. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

He has received numerous honors and awards, including the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communication Technologies in 2025. He was the inaugural recipient of the World Laureates Association (WLA) Prize, received the Ulf Grenander Prize from the American Mathematical Society in 2022, the IEEE John von Neumann Medal in 2020, the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence in 2016, the David E. Rumelhart Prize in 2015, and the ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award in 2009.

He has delivered several prestigious lectures, including the inaugural IMS Grace Wahba Lecture in 2022, the IMS Neyman Lecture in 2011, and an IMS Medallion Lecture in 2004. He was also a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2018.

In 2016, he was named “the most influential computer scientist in the world” by Science magazine, based on a ranking produced by the Semantic Scholar search engine.