Michael I. Jordan is the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor in the
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the
Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley.
He received his Masters in Mathematics from Arizona State University, 
and earned his PhD in Cognitive Science in 1985 from the University of 
California, San Diego.  He was a professor at MIT from 1988 to 1998. 
His research interests bridge the computational, statistical, cognitive,
biological and social sciences.  Prof. Jordan is a member of the National 
Academy of Sciences, a member of the National Academy of Engineering,
a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Foreign 
Member of the Royal Society.  He is a Fellow of the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science.  He was the inaugural winner of the 
World Laureates Association (WLA) Prize in 2022.  He received the 
Ulf Grenander Prize from the American Mathematical Society in 2021, 
the IEEE John von Neumann Medal in 2020, the IJCAI Research Excellence 
Award in 2016, the David E. Rumelhart Prize in 2015, and the ACM/AAAI 
Allen Newell Award in 2009.  He gave the Inaugural IMS Grace Wahba Lecture 
in 2022, the IMS Neyman Lecture in 2011, and an IMS Medallion Lecture in
2004.  He was a Plenary Lecturer at the International Congress of Mathematicians 
in 2018.  

In 2016, Prof. Jordan was named the "most influential computer scientist"
worldwide in an article in Science, based on rankings from the Semantic Scholar 
search engine.