Carlos Guestrin is the Finmeccanica Associate Professor in the Machine
Learning and in the Computer Science Departments at Carnegie Mellon
University.  He is also the co-founder of GGideaLab, a start up
focused on monetizing social networks.  Previously, he was a senior
researcher at the Intel Research Lab in Berkeley. Carlos received his
MSc and PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2000 and
2003, respectively, and a Mechatronics Engineer degree from the
Polytechnic School of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1998.
Carlos' work received awards at a number of conferences and a journal:
KDD 2007 and 2010, IPSN 2005 and 2006, VLDB 2004, NIPS 2003 and 2007,
UAI 2005, ICML 2005, AISTATS 2010, JAIR in 2007, and JWRPM in 2009.
He is also a recipient of the ONR Young Investigator Award, NSF Career
Award, Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, IBM Faculty Fellowship, the Siebel
Scholarship and the Stanford Centennial Teaching Assistant Award.
Carlos was named one of the 2008 `Brilliant 10' by Popular Science
Magazine, received the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award and the
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
He is a former member of the Information Sciences and Technology
(ISAT) advisory group for DARPA.