Brendan J. Frey: advisors and students

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Brendan J. Frey

Canadian researcher and professor in machine learning and genome biologyborn 1968

Supervised 9 doctoral students (12 students at any level); doctorate in 1997; Wikidata names Geoffrey Hinton as doctoral advisor and lists 4 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 3 other registers.

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Students12

cited by a thesis record
Jimmy Ba “Learning to Attend with Neural Networks”
2020 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Vincent Cheung “Graphical Epitome Processing”
2013 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Chen Liu “Probabilistic Siamese Networks for Learning Representations”
2013 · level not given
cited by a thesis record
Jeroen Chua “Learning Patch-based Structural Element Models with Hierarchical Palettes”
2012 · level not given
cited by a thesis record
Clement Chung “Machine Learning Approaches to Refining Post-translational Modification Predictions and Protein Identifications from Tandem Mass Spectrometry”
2012 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Inmar Ella Givoni “Beyond Affinity Propagation: Message Passing Algorithms for Clustering”
2012 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Nevena Lazic “Message Passing Algorithms for Facility Location Problems”
2011 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Patrick Li “"Flobject" Analysis: Learning about Static Images from Motion”
2011 · level not given
cited by a thesis record
Jim C. Huang “Cumulative Distribution Networks: Inference, Estimation and Applications of Graphical Models for Cumulative Distribution Functions”
2010 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Ofer Shai “Machine Learning in Computational Biology: Models of Alternative Splicing”
2010 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Delbert Dueck “Affinity Propagation: Clustering Data by Passing Messages”
2009 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Steven J. Rennie “Graphical Models for Robust Speech Recognition in Adverse Environments”
2008 · doctoral

Advisors on Wikidata1

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stated by Wikidata
Geoffrey Hinton

Students on Wikidata4

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

stated by Wikidata
Nevena Lazic
stated by Wikidata
Steven J. Rennie
stated by Wikidata
Trausti Kristjansson
stated by Wikidata
Vladimir Jojic

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

1 step up
stated by WikidataGeoffrey Hinton
2 steps up
stated by WikidataH. Christopher Longuet-Higgins
3 steps up
stated by WikidataCharles Coulson
4 steps up
stated by WikidataJohn Lennard-Jonesstated by WikidataRalph H. Fowler

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 21 people: 16 cited by thesis records, 5 stated by Wikidata.

Theses1

cited by a thesis record
Bayesian networks for pattern classification, data compression, and channel coding
1997 · doctoral · in en_US · the thesis's own page ›

Education and career2

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from 2001
University of Toronto
worked
undated
University of Toronto
studied

Works1

1997 · held from 1 repository · a work missing?

cited by University of Toronto TSpace's record
Bayesian networks for pattern classification, data compression, and channel coding
1997 · doctoral thesis · University of Toronto TSpace

At a glance

known as: university teacher
awards: Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2008
member of: Royal Society of Canada, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Wikipedia: in 3 languages

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Elsewhere5

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaBrendan Frey
stated by WikidataWikidataQ18684996

papers

stated by WikidataGoogle ScholarRjQ7YnMAAAAJ
stated by WikidataDBLP15/1159

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project66816

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  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Brendan J. Frey: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q18684996},
  note = {read on 2026-10-31}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 31). Brendan J. Frey: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-31]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q18684996