Machine Learning Department Researchers Receive Honors

Byron SpiceFriday, July 2, 2010

Students and faculty members of the Machine Learning Department (MLD) have received top honors for work they have presented this summer at leading conferences in machine learning. Purnamrita Sarkar, a PhD student in MLD, won best student paper at the Computational Learning Theory (COLT 2010) conference for "Theoretical Justification of Popular Link Prediction Heuristics," work she did with Deepayan Chakrabarti of Yahoo! Research and Andrew Moore of Google Pittsburgh. The team of Le Song, a post-doc in the Lane Center for Computational Biology; Byron Boots, a PhD student in MLD; Geoff Gordon, associate research professor in MLD; Sajid Siddiqi of  Google Pittsburgh and Alex Smola of Yahoo! Research won Best Paper at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2010) for their paper, "Hilbert Space Embeddings of Hidden Markov Models." Also at ICML, MLD PhD student Brian Ziebart was the runnerup for best student paper for "Modeling Interaction via the Principle of Maximum Causal Entropy," work he did with Anind Dey of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and Drew Bagnell of the Robotics Institute.

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