Jason Weston
Also known as Jason E Weston
Jason Weston is a machine-learning researcher whose 2008 paper on neural networks for natural language processing won an ICML Test of Time Award in 2018. He earned a PhD in 2000 with Alex Gammerman, Volodya Vovk and Vladimir Vapnik as advisors. After research roles at Biowulf, the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics and NEC Labs America, he joined Google's New York office in 2009. As of October 2026, he is a senior director and research scientist at Meta and a visiting research professor at New York University.
Timeline
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2000
A PhD in machine learning
He completes a PhD in 2000 with Alex Gammerman, Volodya Vovk and Vladimir Vapnik as advisors.
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2000–2003
Research at Biowulf and Max Planck
He works at Biowulf Technologies in 2000 and 2001, then at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen in 2002 and 2003.
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2003–2014
Research at NEC Labs and Google
He joins NEC Labs America in Princeton in 2003, and in 2009 he joins Google's New York office, where he works until 2014.
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2005
A paper on learning transductions
He co-writes A General Regression Technique for Learning Transductions with Corinna Cortes and Mehryar Mohri, published in the ICML 2005 proceedings.
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2018
An ICML test of time award
He and Ronan Collobert receive the ICML Test of Time Award in 2018 for their 2008 paper on deep neural networks for natural language processing.
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As of October 2026
A senior role at Meta
As of October 2026, he is a senior director and research scientist at Meta and a visiting research professor at New York University. He works in the FAIR Alignment team on post-training and reasoning.
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