Vladimir Vapnik

Vladimir Naumovich Wapnik (in English transcription Vladimir Vapnik Naumovich, Russian Владимир Наумович Вапник, December 6, 1936) is a Soviet- American mathematician and main developer of Wapnik - Tscherwonenkis theory and Support Vector Machine.

Born in the Soviet Union in 1958, he completed his studies in mathematics at the Uzbek State University, Samarkand Uzbekistan in the former Soviet Socialist Republic from. In 1964 he was awarded a doctorate degree at the Institute of Control Engineering in Moscow, for which he worked in the period from 1961 to 1990, most recently served as head of the institute. In 1990 he emigrated to the USA and started at the AT & T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey, to conduct research in the field of adaptive systems. During his tenure at AT & T, he developed with his colleagues the principle of Support Vector Machine (SVM ). 2002 Wapnik began at NEC in Princeton, New Jersey and currently conducting research there in the field of machine learning. Next he is since 1995 professor at Royal Holloway, University of London and an adjunct professor at Columbia University, New York City since 2003., 2006 he was a member of the American scientific organization National Academy of Engineering. In 2008 he received the Paris Kanellakis Award, the 2012 Benjamin Franklin Medal.

Writings

• AJ Tscherwonenkis: On the uniform convergence of relative frequencies of events to Their probabilities. In 1971.
• AJ Tscherwonenkis: Necessary and sufficient conditions for the uniform convergence of means to Their expectations. In 1981.
• Estimation of Dependences Based on Empirical Data. In 1982.
• The Nature of Statistical Learning Theory. In 1995.
• Statistical Learning Theory. In 1998.
• Estimation of Dependences Based on Empirical Data. 2006 (reprinted by Springer -Verlag).