Finmeccanica Associate Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering and
Robotics Institute
(by Courtesy)
Co-director of the Sense, Learn, Act
(SELECT) Lab with Geoff Gordon
Recent News
The First GraphLab Workshop on Large-Scale Machine Learning will be held on July 9th, 2012 in San Francisco. We are expecting a large audience of experts and practitioners from industry and academia. Join us!
2012 IJCAII-JAIR Best Paper runner-up prize for
Optimal Value of Information in Graphical Models with
Andreas Krause.
I am co-organizing the NIPS
2011 Big Learning Workshop, focusing on algorithms, systems,
and tools for learning at scale.
Recently released code for GraphLab, our framework that makes it very easy to design and implement parallel machine learning algorithms.
Best Paper Award at KDD 2010 for
Connecting the Dots Between News Articles with Dafna
Shahaf.
Best Student Paper Award at AISTATS
2010 for
Focused Belief Propagation for Query-Specific Inference
with Anton Chechetka.
The slides and video of my IJCAI 2009
Computers and Thought Award talk are now available.
Best Research Paper Award from the ASCE Journal
of Water Resources Planning and Management Engineering
for Efficient
Sensor Placement Optimization for Securing Large Water
Distribution Networks with Andreas Krause, Jure Leskovec,
Jeanne VanBriesen, and Christos Faloutsos.
Our NIPS 2009 workshops:
Andreas Krause
and I gave a tutorial at ICML 2008 entitled "Beyond
Convexity: Submodularity in Machine Learning."
Honorable Mention for Outstanding Paper Award at
NIPS 2007 for
Efficient Inference for Distributions on Permutations with
Jon Huang and Leo Guibas.
Best Paper Award at KDD 2007 for
Cost-effective Outbreak Detection in Networks with Jure
Leskovec, Andreas Krause, Christos Faloutsos, Jeanne
VanBriesen and Natalie Glance.
2007 IJCAII-JAIR Best Paper prize for
Efficient Solution Algorithms for Factored MDPs with
Daphne Koller, Ron Parr and Shobha Venkataraman.
Best Paper Award at IPSN 2006 for Near-optimal
Sensor Placements: Maximizing Information while Minimizing
Communication Cost with Andreas Krause, Anupam Gupta and
Jon Kleinberg.
Best Paper Runner-Up Award at
ICML 2005 for Near-Optimal
Sensor Placements in Gaussian Processes with Andreas
Krause and Ajit Singh.
Best Paper Runner-Up Award at UAI
2005 for Near-Optimal
Nonmyopic Value of Information in Graphical Models with
Andreas Krause.
Best Paper Award at IPSN 2005 for A
Robust Architecture for Distributed Inference in Sensor
Networks with Mark Paskin and Jim McFadden.
I co-organized the NIPS 2005 workshop
Intelligence Beyond the Desktop with
Mark Paskin.
Best Paper Award at VLDB
2004 for Model-Driven
Data Acquisition in Sensor Networks with Amol Deshpande,
Sam Madden, Joseph Hellerstein and Wei Hong.
Best Paper Award at NIPS 2003 for Max-Margin
Markov Networks with Ben Taskar and Daphne Koller.