<div dir="ltr">I may not see you soon but heartily congrats remotely :) Great stuff, keep it up.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Jeff Schneider <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:schneide@cs.cmu.edu" target="_blank">schneide@cs.cmu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Auton Lab Members,<br>
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When you see Samy in the hallway, you can congratulate him on winning the IJCAI best student paper award! This is quite a prestigious achievement!<br>
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Jeff.<br>
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Subject: IJCAI-2015 Distinguished Student Paper Award<br>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 03:17:42 +0000<br>
From: Prof. Qiang Yang <<a href="mailto:qyang@cse.ust.hk" target="_blank">qyang@cse.ust.hk</a>><br>
To: <a href="mailto:kandasamy@cmu.edu" target="_blank">kandasamy@cmu.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:kandasamy@cmu.edu" target="_blank">kandasamy@cmu.edu</a>>, <a href="mailto:bapoczos@cs.cmu.edu" target="_blank">bapoczos@cs.cmu.edu</a><br>
<<a href="mailto:bapoczos@cs.cmu.edu" target="_blank">bapoczos@cs.cmu.edu</a>>, <a href="mailto:schneide@cs.cmu.edu" target="_blank">schneide@cs.cmu.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:schneide@cs.cmu.edu" target="_blank">schneide@cs.cmu.edu</a>><br>
CC: Michael Wooldridge <<a href="mailto:Michael.Wooldridge@cs.ox.ac.uk" target="_blank">Michael.Wooldridge@cs.ox.ac.uk</a>><br>
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Dear Kirthevasan, Jeff and Barnabas,<br>
<br>
It is our great pleasure to inform you that your IJCAI-2015 paper "Bayesian<br>
Active Learning for Posterior Estimation” was chosen as the winner of the<br>
IJCAI-2015 Distinguished Student Paper Award. Congratulations!<br>
<br>
The IJCAI-2015 Distinguished Awards Committee consisted of Mausam, Yevgeniy<br>
Vorobeychik,, Emma Brunskill and chaired by Subbarao Kambhampati. The committee<br>
went through a very rigorous evaluation based on inputs from the IJCAI program<br>
committee. Three awards were given: distinguished paper award, distinguished<br>
student paper award and honorable mention award.<br>
<br>
As a winner of Distinguished Student Paper Award, your presentation of the paper<br>
will be scheduled in a special session on the morning of Tuesday July 28. More<br>
details on the schedule will be available soon. Presentation of the award will<br>
be held in the opening reception on the evening of Tuesday July 27, 2015. Please<br>
attend the reception to receive the award.<br>
<br>
Best wishes! See you at IJCAI!<br>
<br>
-Qiang Yang, IJCAI-2015 Program Chair and Mike Wooldridge, IJCAI-2015 Conference<br>
Chair<br>
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