Invited Conference/Research Workshop

I am serving as a Demonstration Chair for NIPS 2013.
I served as an Area Chair for the ICML 2013 program committee.
I served as an Area Chair for the NIPS 2012 program committee.
I served as a Workshop Chair for the UAI 2012.
I served as an Area Chair for the ICML 2012 program committee.
I served as an Area Chair for the NIPS 2011 program committee.
I served as an ICML 2011 Area Chair for Deep Learning, Optimization Algorithms, Recommendation and Matrix Factorization.

I was guest editor for TPAMI Special Issue on Learning Deep Architectures.

I co-organized ICML 2013 workshop on Inferning: Interactions between Inference and Learning.
Quoc V. Le, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, Andrew Ng, Josh Tenenbaum, and I are organizing a NIPS (2011) workshop on Challenges in Learning Hierarchical Models: Transfer Learning and Optimization.
Together with Ryan Adams, Josh Tenenbaum, Zoubin Ghahramani, and Tom Griffiths, I organized a NIPS workshop on Transfer Learning Via Rich Generative Models NIPS 2010.
Amir Globerson, David Sontag, and I organized a workshop on Approximate Learning of Large Scale Graphical Models: Theory and Applications, NIPS 2009.
Together with Kai Yu, Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yoshua Bengio, I organized a workshop on Learning Feature Hierarchies, ICML 2009.
I was co-organizing Deep Learning Workshop: Foundations and Future Directions, NIPS 2007.