 Ghahramani was educated at the American School of Madrid in Spain and the University of Pennsylvania where he was awarded a double major degree in Cognitive Science and Computer Science in 1990.He obtained his PhD from the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, supervised by Michael I. Jordan and Tomaso Poggio.Following his PhD, Ghahramani moved to the University of Toronto in 1995 as an ITRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Artificial Intelligence Lab, working with Geoffrey Hinton.