| Ben Taskar | |
| Birth Date: | March 3, 1977 |
| Field: | Computer Science, Machine Learning and Statistical relational learning |
| Workplaces: | University of Pennsylvania, and University of Washington, Seattle |
| Known For: | Statistical relational learning, Graphical models |
| Alma Mater: | Stanford University |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Daphne Koller |
Ben Taskar (March 3, 1977 – November 18, 2013) was a professor and researcher in the area of machine learning and applications to computational linguistics and computer vision. He was a Magerman Term Associate Professor for Computer and Information Science at University of Pennsylvania. He co-directed PRiML: Penn Research in Machine Learning, a joint venture between the School of Engineering and Wharton. He was also a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Annenberg Center for Public Policy. At the University of Washington, he held the Boeing Professorship.
He was the first person to define Max-margin Markov networks and a pioneer in statistical relational learning.