Congratulations Samy!

[Artur Dubrawski]

Very sweet, congrats Samy!

Artur

On 6/3/2015 11:39 AM, Jeff Schneider wrote:
> Auton Lab Members,
>
> 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!
>
> Jeff.
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject:     IJCAI-2015 Distinguished Student Paper Award
> Date:     Wed, 3 Jun 2015 03:17:42 +0000
> From:     Prof. Qiang Yang <qyang at cse.ust.hk>
> To:     kandasamy at cmu.edu <kandasamy at cmu.edu>, bapoczos at cs.cmu.edu
> <bapoczos at cs.cmu.edu>, schneide at cs.cmu.edu <schneide at cs.cmu.edu>
> CC:     Michael Wooldridge <Michael.Wooldridge at cs.ox.ac.uk>
>
>
>
> Dear Kirthevasan, Jeff and Barnabas,
>
> It is our great pleasure to inform you that your IJCAI-2015 paper 
> "Bayesian
> Active Learning for Posterior Estimation” was chosen as the winner of the
> IJCAI-2015 Distinguished Student Paper Award.  Congratulations!
>
> The IJCAI-2015 Distinguished Awards Committee consisted of Mausam, 
> Yevgeniy
> Vorobeychik,, Emma Brunskill and chaired by Subbarao Kambhampati. The 
> committee
> went through a very rigorous evaluation based on inputs from the IJCAI 
> program
> committee.  Three awards were given: distinguished paper award, 
> distinguished
> student paper award and honorable mention award.
>
> As a winner of Distinguished Student Paper Award, your presentation of 
> the paper
> will be scheduled in a special session on the morning of Tuesday July 
> 28.  More
> details on the schedule will be available soon.  Presentation of the 
> award will
> be held in the opening reception on the evening of Tuesday July 27, 
> 2015. Please
> attend the reception to receive the award.
>
> Best wishes!  See you at IJCAI!
>
> -Qiang Yang, IJCAI-2015 Program Chair and Mike Wooldridge, IJCAI-2015 
> Conference
> Chair
>
>