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Organizers

NIPS 2015

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Program Committee

Maria-Florina Balcan

Carnegie Mellon University
DB
Program Committee

David Balduzzi

Dr Victoria University Wellington
Samy Bengio
Program Committee

Samy Bengio

Senior Director, AI and Machine Learning Research Apple MLR
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Program Committee

Alina Beygelzimer

Senior Research Scientist Yahoo Inc
DB
Program Committee

Daniel A Braun

Ulm University
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Program Committee

Emma Brunskill

CMU
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Program Committee

Gal Chechik

NVIDIA, Bar-Ilan University
Kyunghyun Cho
Program Committee

Kyunghyun Cho

Genentech / NYU
Kyunghyun Cho - Glen de Vries Professor of Health Statistics, NYU; Executive Director of Frontier Research, Prescient Design, Genentech Cho's work spans machine learning and natural language processing. He co-developed the Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) architecture and has contributed to neural machine translation and sequence-to-sequence learning. He is a CIFAR Fellow of Learning in Machines & Brains and received the 2021 Samsung Ho-Am Prize in Engineering. He served as program chair for ICLR 2020, NeurIPS 2022, and ICML 2022.
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Program Committee

Seungjin Choi

BARO AI
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Program Committee

Aaron Courville

Mila, U. Montreal
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Program Committee

Marco Cuturi

Apple
Marco Cuturi is a research scientist at Apple, in Paris. He received his Ph.D. in 11/2005 from the Ecole des Mines de Paris in applied mathematics. Before that he graduated from National School of Statistics (ENSAE) with a master degree (MVA) from ENS Cachan. He worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, between 11/2005 and 3/2007 and then in the financial industry between 4/2007 and 9/2008. After working at the ORFE department of Princeton University as a lecturer between 2/2009 and 8/2010, he was at the Graduate School of Informatics of Kyoto University between 9/2010 and 9/2016 as a tenured associate professor. He joined ENSAE in 9/2016 as a professor, where he is now working part-time. He was at Google between 10/2018 and 1/2022. His main employment is now with Apple, since 1/2022, as a research scientist working on fundamental aspects of machine learning.
Marc Deisenroth
Program Committee

Marc Deisenroth

Google DeepMind
Professor Marc Deisenroth is the DeepMind Chair in Artificial Intelligence at University College London and the Deputy Director of UCL's Centre for Artificial Intelligence. He also holds a visiting faculty position at the University of Johannesburg and Imperial College London. Marc's research interests center around data-efficient machine learning, probabilistic modeling and autonomous decision making. Marc was Program Chair of EWRL 2012, Workshops Chair of RSS 2013, EXPO-Co-Chair of ICML 2020, and Tutorials Co-Chair of NeurIPS 2021. In 2019, Marc co-organized the Machine Learning Summer School in London. He received Paper Awards at ICRA 2014, ICCAS 2016, and ICML 2020. He is co-author of the book Mathematics for Machine Learning published by Cambridge University Press (2020).
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Program Committee

Li Deng

VaticLabs.ai & U. Washington
ID
Program Committee

Inderjit Dhillon

Professor Google & UT Austin
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Program Committee

Francesco Dinuzzo

University of Pavia
FD
Program Committee

Florence d'Alche-Buc

Prof. Télécom-ParisTech
EF
Program Committee

Emily Fox

Stanford University
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Program Committee

Kenji Fukumizu

Professor Institute of Statistical Mathematics
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Program Committee

Thomas Gaertner

Fraunhofer IAIS and University of Bonn
Amir Globerson
Program Committee

Amir Globerson

Google, Tel Aviv University
Amir Globerson received a BSc in computer science and physics from the Hebrew University, and a PhD in computational neuroscience from the Hebrew University. After his PhD, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto and a Rothschild postdoctoral fellow at MIT. He joined the Hebrew University school of computer science in 2008, and moved to the Tel Aviv University School of Computer Science in 2016. He is also a research scientist at Google and is currently on sabbatical at Google NYC. He served as an Associate Editor in Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis And Machine Intelligence. His work has received several paper awards (at NeurIPS,UAI, and ICML). In 2018 he served as program co-chair for the UAI conference, and in 2019 he was the general co-chair for UAI in Tel Aviv. In 2019 he received the ERC consolidator grant. He is serving as program co-chair at NeurIPS 2023, and will serve as NeurIPS 2024 general chair.
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Program Committee

Ian Goodfellow

Research Scientist Google
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Program Committee

Moritz Grosse-Wentrup

Dr. MPG Tuebingen
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Program Committee

Bohyung Han

Associate Professor Seoul National University Google DeepMind
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Program Committee

Elad Hazan

Professor Princeton University and Google Brain
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Program Committee

Xiaofei He

Zhejiang University
TI
Program Committee

Tomoharu Iwata

NTT
MK
Program Committee

Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan

Mr. RIKEN
Emtiyaz Khan (also known as Emti) is a team leader at the RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP) in Tokyo where he leads the Approximate Bayesian Inference Team. He is also a visiting professor at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT). Previously, he was a postdoc and then a scientist at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where he also taught two large machine learning courses and received a teaching award. He finished his PhD in machine learning from University of British Columbia in 2012. The main goal of Emti’s research is to understand the principles of learning from data and use them to develop algorithms that can learn like living beings. For the past 10 years, his work has focused on developing Bayesian methods that could lead to such fundamental principles. The approximate Bayesian inference team now continues to use these principles, as well as derive new ones, to solve real-world problems.
KK
Program Committee

Kee-Eung Kim

KAIST
SK
Program Committee

Samory Kpotufe

ucsd
AK
Program Committee

Andreas Krause

ETH Zurich
JK
Program Committee

James Kwok

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Christoph Lampert
Program Committee

Christoph Lampert

Prof. Dr. Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
Christoph Lampert received the PhD degree in mathematics from the University of Bonn in 2003. In 2010 he joined the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) first as an Assistant Professor and since 2015 as a Professor. There, he leads the research group for Machine Learning and Computer Vision, and since 2019 he is also the head of ISTA's ELLIS unit.
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Program Committee

John Langford

Microsoft Research
John Langford is a machine learning research scientist, a field which he says "is shifting from an academic discipline to an industrial tool". He is the author of the weblog hunch.net and the principal developer of Vowpal Wabbit. John works at Microsoft Research New York, of which he was one of the founding members, and was previously affiliated with Yahoo! Research, Toyota Technological Institute, and IBM's Watson Research Center. He studied Physics and Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology, earning a double bachelor's degree in 1997, and received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2002. He was the program co-chair for the 2012 International Conference on Machine Learning.
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Program Committee

Hugo Larochelle

Research Scientist Mila - Quebec AI Institute
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Program Committee

Pavel Laskov

Fraunhofer FIRST
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Program Committee

Svetlana Lazebnik

UIUC
HL
Program Committee

Honglak Lee

LG AI Research / U. Michigan
WL
Program Committee

Wee Sun Lee

National University of Singapore
Wee Sun Lee is a professor in the Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore. He obtained his B.Eng from the University of Queensland in 1992 and his Ph.D. from the Australian National University in 1996. He has been a research fellow at the Australian Defence Force Academy, a fellow of the Singapore-MIT Alliance, and a visiting scientist at MIT. His research interests include machine learning, planning under uncertainty, and approximate inference. His works have won the Test of Time Award at Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2021, the RoboCup Best Paper Award at International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2015, the Google Best Student Paper Award, Uncertainty in AI (UAI) 2014 (as faculty co-author), as well as several competitions and challenges. He has been an area chair for machine learning and AI conferences such as the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). He was a program, conference and journal track co-chair for the Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML), and he is currently the co-chair of the steering committee of ACML.
HL
Program Committee

Hang Li

Director of Noah's Ark Lab Microsoft Research Asia
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Program Committee

Chih-Jen Lin

National Taiwan Univ / MBZUAI
YL
Program Committee

Yuanqing Lin

Research Staff Member NEC Labs America
Hsuan-Tien Lin
Program Committee

Hsuan-Tien Lin

National Taiwan University
Professor Hsuan-Tien Lin received a B.S. in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Taiwan University in 2001, an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from California Institute of Technology in 2005 and 2008, respectively. He joined the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University as an assistant professor in 2008 and has been promoted to full professor in 2017. Between 2016 and 2019, he worked as the Chief Data Scientist of Appier, a startup company that specializes in making AI easier for marketing. Currently, he keeps growing with Appier as its Chief Data Science Consultant. From the university, Prof. Lin received the Distinguished Teaching Awards in 2011 and 2021, the Outstanding Mentoring Award in 2013, and five Outstanding Teaching Awards between 2016 and 2020. He co-authored the introductory machine learning textbook Learning from Data and offered two popular Mandarin-teaching MOOCs Machine Learning Foundations and Machine Learning Techniques based on the textbook. He served in the machine learning community as Progam Co-chair of NeurIPS 2020, Expo Co-chair of ICML 2021, and Workshop Chair of NeurIPS 2022 and 2023. He co-led the teams that won the champion of KDDCup 2010, the double-champion of the two tracks in KDDCup 2011, the champion of track 2 in KDDCup 2012, and the double-champion of the two tracks in KDDCup 2013.
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Program Committee

Zhouchen Lin

Prof. Peking University
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Program Committee

Tie-Yan Liu

Assistant Managing Director Microsoft Research
Tie-Yan Liu is an assistant managing director of Microsoft Research Asia, leading the machine learning research area. He is very well known for his pioneer work on learning to rank and computational advertising, and his recent research interests include deep learning, reinforcement learning, and distributed machine learning. Many of his technologies have been transferred to Microsoft’s products and online services (such as Bing, Microsoft Advertising, Windows, Xbox, and Azure), and open-sourced through Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK), Microsoft Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit (DMTK), and Microsoft Graph Engine. He has also been actively contributing to academic communities. He is an adjunct/honorary professor at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), University of Nottingham, and several other universities in China. He has published 200+ papers in refereed conferences and journals, with over 17000 citations. He has won quite a few awards, including the best student paper award at SIGIR (2008), the most cited paper award at Journal of Visual Communications and Image Representation (2004-2006), the research break-through award (2012) and research-team-of-the-year award (2017) at Microsoft Research, and Top-10 Springer Computer Science books by Chinese authors (2015), and the most cited Chinese researcher by Elsevier (2017). He has been invited to serve as general chair, program committee chair, local chair, or area chair for a dozen of top conferences including SIGIR, WWW, KDD, ICML, NIPS, IJCAI, AAAI, ACL, ICTIR, as well as associate editor of ACM Transactions on Information Systems, ACM Transactions on the Web, and Neurocomputing. Tie-Yan Liu is a fellow of the IEEE, and a distinguished member of the ACM.
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Program Committee

Aurelie Lozano

Research Staff Member IBM Research
DM
Program Committee

David Mcallester

Toyota Tech Institute Chicago
MM
Program Committee

Marina Meila

Associate Professor University of Washington
Shakir Mohamed
Program Committee

Shakir Mohamed

Senior Staff Scientist DeepMind
Shakir Mohamed is a senior staff scientist at DeepMind in London. Shakir's main interests lie at the intersection of approximate Bayesian inference, deep learning and reinforcement learning, and the role that machine learning systems at this intersection have in the development of more intelligent and general-purpose learning systems. Before moving to London, Shakir held a Junior Research Fellowship from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), based in Vancouver at the University of British Columbia with Nando de Freitas. Shakir completed his PhD with Zoubin Ghahramani at the University of Cambridge, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar to the United Kingdom. Shakir is from South Africa and completed his previous degrees in Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
CM
Program Committee

Claire Monteleoni

Associate Professor INRIA Paris & University of Colorado Boulder
Claire Monteleoni is an associate professor of Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder. Previously, she was an associate professor at George Washington University, and research faculty at the Center for Computational Learning Systems, at Columbia University. She did a postdoc in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, and completed her PhD and Masters in Computer Science, at MIT. She holds a Bachelors in Earth and Planetary Sciences from Harvard. Her research focuses on machine learning algorithms and theory for problems including learning from data streams, learning from raw (unlabeled) data, learning from private data, and climate informatics: accelerating discovery in climate science with machine learning. Her work on climate informatics received the Best Application Paper Award at NASA CIDU 2010. In 2011, she co-founded the International Workshop on Climate Informatics, which is now in its fourth year, attracting climate scientists and data scientists from over 14 countries and 26 states.
GM
Program Committee

Greg Mori

Borealis AI
RM
Program Committee

Remi Munos

Researcher scientist Google DeepMind
SN
Program Committee

Shinichi Nakajima

TU Berlin
SN
Program Committee

Sebastian Nowozin

Google Deepmind
CO
Program Committee

Cheng Soon Ong

Data61 and Australian National University
PO
Program Committee

Peter Orbanz

Dr Gatsby Unit
Peter Orbanz is a research fellow at the University of Cambridge. He holds a PhD degree from ETH Zurich and will join the Statistics Faculty at Columbia University as an Assistant Professor in 2012. He is interested in the mathematical and algorithmic aspects of Bayesian nonparametric models and of related learning technologies.
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Program Committee

Sinno Jialin Pan

Associate Professor The Chinese University of Hong Kong
BP
Program Committee

Barnabas Poczos

Carnegie Mellon University
MP
Program Committee

Massimiliano Pontil

Professor IIT & UCL
NQ
Program Committee

Novi Quadrianto

Dr University of Sussex and HSE
AR
Program Committee

Alain Rakotomamonjy

Université de Rouen Normandie Criteo AI Lab
GR
Program Committee

Gunnar Rätsch

Professor ETHZ
CR
Program Committee

Cynthia Rudin

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
RS
Program Committee

Russ Salakhutdinov

Associate Professor Carnegie Mellon University
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Program Committee

Issei Sato

University of Tokyo
CS
Program Committee

Clay Scott

University of Michigan
MS
Program Committee

Matthias Seeger

PhD Amazon
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Program Committee

Dino Sejdinovic

Dr Australian Institute for Machine Learning
Dino Sejdinovic is a Professor at the School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, University of Adelaide. He was previously a Lecturer and an Associate Professor at the Department of Statistics, University of Oxford (2014-2022). He held postdoctoral positions at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London (2011-2014) and at the Institute for Statistical Science, University of Bristol (2009-2011). He received a PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Bristol (2009) and a Diplom in Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science from the University of Sarajevo (2006).
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Program Committee

Yevgeny Seldin

Assistant Professor University of Copenhagen
JS
Program Committee

Jianbo Shi

University of Pennsylvania, CMU
AS
Program Committee

Aarti Singh

CMU
LS
Program Committee

Le Song

Associate Professor GenBio AI MBZUAI
NS
Program Committee

Nati Srebro

TTI-Chicago
BS
Program Committee

Bharath Sriperumbudur

Dr. Penn State University
AS
Program Committee

Alan A Stocker

University of Pennsylvania
AS
Program Committee

Amos Storkey

Dr University of Edinburgh
IS
Program Committee

Ilya Sutskever

Google
TS
Program Committee

Taiji Suzuki

The University of Tokyo/RIKEN-AIP
CS
Program Committee

Csaba Szepesvari

Google DeepMind / University of Alberta
IT
Program Committee

Ichiro Takeuchi

Dr Nagoya Institute of Technology
TT
Program Committee

Toshiyuki Tanaka

Professor Kyoto University
RT
Program Committee

Ryota Tomioka

Microsoft Research AI4Science
IT
Program Committee

Ivor Tsang

University of Technology, Sydney
KT
Program Committee

Koji Tsuda

University of Tokyo
NU
Program Committee

Naonori Ueda

NTT Communication Science Laboratories
LV
Program Committee

Laurens van der Maaten

Research Scientist Facebook AI Research
RV
Program Committee

René Vidal

Herschel Seder Professor University of Pennsylvania and Amazon
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Program Committee

S.V.N. Vishwanathan

UCSC
LW
Program Committee

Liwei Wang

Professor Peking University
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Program Committee

Sinead Williamson

Dr University of Texas at Austin
EX
Program Committee

Eric Xing

Professor CMU/MBZUAI/GenBio
HX
Program Committee

Huan Xu

NUS
EY
Program Committee

Eunho Yang

Assistant Professor Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; AItrics
JY
Program Committee

Jieping Ye

University of Michigan
JY
Program Committee

Jingyi Yu

University of Delaware
BY
Program Committee

Byron M Yu

Carnegie Mellon University
XZ
Program Committee

Xinhua Zhang

Dr. University of Illinois Chicago (UIC)
ZZ
Program Committee

Zhi-Hua Zhou

Professor Nanjing University
DZ
Program Committee

Denny Zhou

Google DeepMind
JZ
Program Committee

Jerry Zhu

Carnegie Mellon University
JZ
Program Committee

Jun Zhu

Professor Tsinghua University
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President

Terrence Sejnowski

Director Salk Institute
Marc'Aurelio Ranzato
Demonstration Chair

Marc'Aurelio Ranzato

DeepMind
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Program Chair Assistant

Yung-Kyun Noh

BK Assistant Professor Hanyang University / Korea Institute for Advanced Study
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Program Chair Assistant

Pedro Ortega

Dr. DeepMind
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General Chair

Corinna Cortes

Google Research
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General Chair

Neil D Lawrence

Professor University of Cambridge
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Program Chair

Daniel Lee

Professor Cornell University
MS
Program Chair

Masashi Sugiyama

Director / Professor RIKEN / University of Tokyo
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Tutorial Chair

Ralf Herbrich

Dr. Hasso Plattner Institute
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Workshop Series Editors

Thomas Dietterich

Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) Oregon State University
Tom Dietterich (AB Oberlin College 1977; MS University of Illinois 1979; PhD Stanford University 1984) is Professor and Director of Intelligent Systems Research at Oregon State University. Among his contributions to machine learning research are (a) the formalization of the multiple-instance problem, (b) the development of the error-correcting output coding method for multi-class prediction, (c) methods for ensemble learning, (d) the development of the MAXQ framework for hierarchical reinforcement learning, and (e) the application of gradient tree boosting to problems of structured prediction and latent variable models. Dietterich has pursued application-driven fundamental research in many areas including drug discovery, computer vision, computational sustainability, and intelligent user interfaces. Dietterich has served the machine learning community in a variety of roles including Executive Editor of the Machine Learning journal, co-founder of the Journal of Machine Learning Research, editor of the MIT Press Book Series on Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning, and editor of the Morgan-Claypool Synthesis series on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. He was Program Co-Chair of AAAI-1990, Program Chair of NIPS-2000, and General Chair of NIPS-2001. He was first President of the International Machine Learning Society (the parent organization of ICML) and served a term on the NIPS Board of Trustees and the Council of AAAI.
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Workshop Series Editors

Michael Jordan

University of California, Berkeley
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Workshop Chair

Borja Balle

Postdoctoral Fellow McGill University
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Workshop Chair

Marco Cuturi

Apple
Marco Cuturi is a research scientist at Apple, in Paris. He received his Ph.D. in 11/2005 from the Ecole des Mines de Paris in applied mathematics. Before that he graduated from National School of Statistics (ENSAE) with a master degree (MVA) from ENS Cachan. He worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, between 11/2005 and 3/2007 and then in the financial industry between 4/2007 and 9/2008. After working at the ORFE department of Princeton University as a lecturer between 2/2009 and 8/2010, he was at the Graduate School of Informatics of Kyoto University between 9/2010 and 9/2016 as a tenured associate professor. He joined ENSAE in 9/2016 as a professor, where he is now working part-time. He was at Google between 10/2018 and 1/2022. His main employment is now with Apple, since 1/2022, as a research scientist working on fundamental aspects of machine learning.
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Publications Chair

Kilian Q Weinberger

Cornell University / ASAPP Research
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Program Manager

Yung-Kyun Noh

BK Assistant Professor Hanyang University / Korea Institute for Advanced Study
PO
Program Manager

Pedro Ortega

Dr. DeepMind
MP
Executive Director

Mary Ellen Perry

Executive Director Level 5 Events
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Symposia Chairs

Corinna Cortes

Google Research
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Symposia Chairs

Neil D Lawrence

Professor University of Cambridge
MB
Treasurer

Marian S Bartlett

Assoc. Res. Prof. Apple, Inc.