About me

Founder

Jacqueline Isabelle Forien

My name is Jacqueline Isabelle Forien and I am from Tours, France, a small city in the middle of the Loire Valley. I am married and have four children.

After an engineering degree in computer science at the UTC engineering school and a few years of work experience in that field, I decided to become a mathematics teacher. I am still teaching, but in the meantime I became passionate about artificial intelligence and, more specifically, machine learning. In 2013 I decided to start studying again at 53 years old and soon graduated from University College London with an M.Sc in machine learning. Soon after, I decided to create the Machine Learning Salon in my spare time so that I could stay updated on the changes that happen regularly in the field.

I would like to express special gratitude to my director of machine learning studies at UCL, Professor Mark Herbster, my tutor, Professor David Barber, my supervisor of the master's project, Professor Nadia Berthouze, and all my peers during that amazing year.

In addition, I would like to express many thanks to Igor Carron, who initiated the smart association of machine learning and salon, and gave me the opportunity to organise in London a wonderful event, the Europe wide machine learning meetup between Paris, Berlin, Zurich and London, with Andrew Ng as a guest speaker.

I hope that this website will help many people learn and get more involved in this passionate field that is machine learning.

Jacqueline

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