# Ruslan Salakhutdinov ![[50 Resources/51 Attachments/51.03 Public/2026-05-04 Ruslan Salakhutdinov.jpg|400]] Professor of Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University and UPMC Endowed Chair. PhD under [[Geoffrey Hinton]] at the University of Toronto (2009) on deep generative models. Former Director of AI Research at Apple (2016–2020), where he led the Siri-era ML effort. Core research contributions span Restricted Boltzmann Machines, Deep Boltzmann Machines, variational autoencoders for one-shot learning, and more recently large-model reasoning, memory, and agent architectures. Notable PhD advisor for a generation of influential researchers, including [[Yang Zhilin]] (Moonshot AI, XLNet / Transformer-XL co-author). ## Quotes <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/quote AND [[Ruslan Salakhutdinov]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## Books <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/book AND [[Ruslan Salakhutdinov]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## References - CMU page: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rsalakhu/ - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruslan_Salakhutdinov - Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ITZ1e7MAAAAJ ## Related - [[Yang Zhilin]] - [[Large Language Models (LLMs)]] - [[Artificial Intelligence (AI)]]