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Michael I. Jordan

Co-author of the Ray and latent Dirichlet allocation papers; UC Berkeley Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Michael I. Jordan is a Directeur de Recherche at Inria and the École Normale Supérieure and the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor Emeritus in EECS and Statistics at UC Berkeley, where Jordan was a professor from 1998 to 2024 after a decade on the MIT faculty. Jordan was also an Amazon Scholar from 2018 to 2024. Jordan co-authored the latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) paper with David Blei and Andrew Ng, and the paper introducing Ray, the distributed framework for AI applications.123

Work

  • RayPublished research

    Co-author of "Ray: A Distributed Framework for Emerging AI Applications" (2017), the paper that introduced the Ray framework.3

    Project page (external site: arxiv.org)

  • Latent Dirichlet Allocation (external site: jmlr.org)Published research

    Co-author with David M. Blei and Andrew Y. Ng of "Latent Dirichlet Allocation" (Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2003), which describes a generative probabilistic model for collections of discrete data such as text corpora.2

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Sources · reviewed Oct 13, 2026

  1. 1.
    Michael I. Jordan's Home Page (external site: people.eecs.berkeley.edu)

    Michael I. Jordan (UC Berkeley EECS) · Official page · accessed Oct 13, 2026

  2. 2.
    Latent Dirichlet Allocation (JMLR 3, 2003) (external site: jmlr.org)

    Journal of Machine Learning Research · Paper · published 2003 · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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