Vladimir Naumovich Vapnik (Russian: Владимир Наумович Вапник; born 6 December 1936) is a computer scientist, researcher, and academic.
[4] At the end of 1990, Vladimir Vapnik moved to the USA and joined the Adaptive Systems Research Department at AT&T Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey.
They demonstrated its performance on a number of problems of interest to the machine learning community, including handwriting recognition.
Vapnik left AT&T in 2002 and joined NEC Laboratories in Princeton, New Jersey, where he worked in the Machine Learning group.
[citation needed] On November 25, 2014, Vapnik joined Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (now Meta AI),[8] where he is working alongside his longtime collaborators Jason Weston, Léon Bottou, Ronan Collobert, and Yann LeCun.