Biography:Alex and Michael Bronstein
Alex and Michael Bronstein (the Bronstein Brothers) (May 28, 1980) are the identical twin co-authors of the book Numerical Geometry of Non-rigid Shapes (with Ron Kimmel) and co-founders of Novafora Inc. Both hold the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology and are winners of the Hershel Rich Technion innovation award. In 2003, they appeared in a Reuters interview on the use of geometric approaches in three-dimensional face recognition.
Michael Bronstein is a professor at the Imperial College and University of Lugano, and was elevated to an IEEE fellow at 2019, while Alex is a faculty member at the Technion and is an IEEE fellow since 2018.
Michael co-founded Fabula AI, which was founded to solve the problem of online disinformation, or 'Fake News' by looking at how it spreads on social networks rather than focusing on the content itself, as some other approaches do.[1][2] It does this through its use of patented algorithms that use the emergent field of Geometric Deep Learning[3] to detect online disinformation — Fabula is able to employ Geometric graph deep learning to detect network manipulation. Graph deep learning is a method for applying powerful Machine learning techniques to network-structured data. The result is the ability to analyze very large and complex datasets describing relations and interactions and to extract signals in ways that traditional Machine Learning techniques are not capable of doing.[4]
By February 2019, Fabula AI was “able to identify 93 percent of ‘fake news’ within hours of dissemination”. This 93% accuracy was achieved within a few hours of the news first appearing.[5][6]
On June 3, 2019, Twitter announced its acquisition of Fabula AI for an undisclosed sum.[7]
See also
- Computer vision
- Image processing
- Technion
References
- ↑ Spangler, Todd (3 June 2019). "Twitter Buys Artificial-Intelligence Startup to Help Fight Spam, Fake News and Other Abuse". Variety. https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/twitter-buys-fabula-artificial-intelligence-spam-abuse-fake-news-1203231508/.
- ↑ "Twitter Buys London Start-Up Fabula AI". Silicon UK. 3 June 2019. https://www.silicon.co.uk/workspace/twitter-buys-london-start-up-fabula-ai-259315.
- ↑ Geometric deep learning: going beyond Euclidean data, https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.08097
- ↑ "Twitter's new 'Fabula' fake news finder hints at more anti-conservative bias". Washington Times. 3 June 2019. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jun/3/twitters-new-fabula-fake-news-finder-hints-more-an/.
- ↑ Lomas, Natasha (6 February 2019). "Fabula AI is using social spread to spot ‘fake news’". TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/06/fabula-ai-is-using-social-spread-to-spot-fake-news/.
- ↑ Puckett, Lily (3 June 2019). "Twitter buys tech start-up that claims to quickly spot fake news". The Independent. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/twitter-fake-news-fabula-ai-misinformation-machine-learning-a8942091.html.
- ↑ Waters, Robin (7 June 2018). "These were the 10 biggest European tech stories this week". tech.eu. https://tech.eu/brief/these-were-the-10-biggest-european-tech-stories-this-week-7-june-2019/.
External links
- Alex Bronstein's page
- Michael Bronstein's page
- Book "Numerical geometry of non-rigid shapes"
- Reuters interview
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