[Research] [Fwd: more ML students, faculty, alumni win ICML/COLT best paper awards]

[Sajid Siddiqi]

Thanks Artur :) It was a pleasant surprise indeed.

Sajid

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Artur Dubrawski <awd at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:

> ... and more than 45% of the awardees have deep Auton Lab roots!
>
> Way to go Purna, Sajid, Andrew, Drew and Geoff!
>
> Artur
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Tom Mitchell <tom.mitchell at cs.cmu.edu>
> To: ml-all at cs.cmu.edu, scs-council at cs.cmu.edu
> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:49:44 -0400
> Subject: more ML students, faculty, alumni win ICML/COLT best paper awards
> Dear Friends,
>
> Last week I sent a note congratulating Brian Ziebart on his paper
> placing as runnerup for the 2010 ICML Best Student Paper Award.  Since
> then, I've learned the the ML department has done exceptionally well
> this year in earning awards at next week's International Conference on
> Machine Learning (ICML 2010), and the Computational Learning Theory
> (COLT 2010) Conference.
>
> The list includes:
>
> Best Student Paper (COLT 2010)
> Theoretical Justification of Popular Link Prediction Heuristics
> Purnamrita Sarkar, Deepayan Chakrabarti, Andrew Moore
>
> Runnerup Best Student Paper (ICML 2010)
> "Modeling Interaction via the Principle of Maximum Causal Entropy"
> Brian Ziebart, Anind Dey, Drew Bagnell
>
> Best Paper (ICML 2010)
> Hilbert Space Embeddings of Hidden Markov Models.
> Le Song, Byron Boots, Sajid Siddiqi, Geoff Gordon, and Alex Smola
>
>
> Heartiest congratulations to Purna, Deepay, Andrew, Brian, Anind,
> Drew, Le Song, Byron, Sajid, and Geoff.   ICML, COLT and NIPS are the
> three top conferences in machine learning, and this is a great
> achievement for these researchers.  And of course it reflects very
> positively on our department as a whole.
>
> Keep up the great work everybody!
>
> Tom
>
> --
> Tom M. Mitchell
> Fredkin University Professor and Department Head
> Machine Learning Department
> Carnegie Mellon University
> www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom
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