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Keynote talk by Isabelle Guyon and Evelyne Viegas - "AI Competitions and the Science Behind Contests"
Isabelle Guyon · Evelyne Viegas

Fri Dec 11 07:15 AM -- 07:45 AM (PST) @

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Isabelle Guyon (UPSud, INRIA, University Paris-saclay and ChaLearn)
Isabelle Guyon

Isabelle Guyon recently joined Google Brain as a research scientist. She is also professor of artificial intelligence at Université Paris-Saclay (Orsay). Her areas of expertise include computer vision, bioinformatics, and power systems. She is best known for being a co-inventor of Support Vector Machines. Her recent interests are in automated machine learning, meta-learning, and data-centric AI.  She has been a strong promoter of challenges and benchmarks, and is president of ChaLearn, a non-profit dedicated to organizing machine learning challenges. She is community lead of Codalab competitions, a challenge platform used both in academia and industry. She co-organized the “Challenges in Machine Learning Workshop” @ NeurIPS between 2014 and 2019, launched the "NeurIPS challenge track" in 2017 while she was general chair, and pushed the creation of the "NeurIPS datasets and benchmark track" in 2021, as a NeurIPS board member.

Evelyne Viegas (Microsoft Research)

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