Vladimir Vapnik
Professor of Columbia University in the City of New York- Data Science Institute, Fellow at NEC Labs, Professor of Computer Science and Statistics at Royal Holloway since 1995, Head of the Computer Science Research Department from 1961-1999, Adaptive Systems Research Department- AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ, Lucent Technologies in 1996, Collaborator/Research at Facebook AI Research, Vencore Labs