Uber names chief scientist to oversee AI Labs

Uber named Zoubin Ghahramani as its new chief scientist based in in San Francisco, the company announced. He will oversee Uber's AI Labs, its recently created machine learning and artificial intelligence research unit, and will lead AI/machine learning strategy companywide. Ghahramani joined Uber through its acquisition of Geometric Intelligence. He is a professor of information engineering at the University of Cambridge, where he leads a group of about 30 researchers. He was a founding member of the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit in London, one of the founding directors of the Alan Turing Institute, the UK's national institute for data science, and a faculty member of Carnegie Mellon University's Machine Learning Department, among other accomplishments.