Corinna Cortes

Corinna Cortes is an American computer scientist, known for work that laid the theoretical foundations for Support Vector Machines (SVM ).

Life and work

Cortes studied physics in Copenhagen, where she received her diploma at the Niels Bohr Institute. As of 1989, she did research at AT & T Bell Laboratories, where she remained for ten years. She received her doctorate in computer science at the University of Rochester in 1993. She is with Google, Inc. in New York, where she is head of the research (Google Research).

It deals with databases, machine learning and search algorithms. Besides the development of SVM it also contributed to the data mining.

With Vladimir Vapnik she received the 2008 Paris Kanellakis Award of ACM for their work on SVM. For their work on data mining in large data sets, she received the 2000 AT & T Science and Technology Medal.

She has two children and is marathon runner who was third in 2005, for example, the More Marathon in New York.