News

Danny Tarlow and Inmar Givoni won the Best Student Paper, Runner-Up, at UAI 20111 for our paper on "Graph Cuts is a Max-Product Algorithm."

posted: Monday August 22, 2011

My good friend and colleague Avner Magen died on May 29 in Alaska. Visit this site to share your memories of him.

posted: Sunday May 30, 2010

Danny Tarlow presented our work on "HOP-MAP: Efficient message passing with high order potentials" (by Danny, Inmar Givoni, and myself) at the AI and Statistics meeting.

posted: Saturday May 15, 2010

Rama Natarajan presented our work on "Influence of task-specific instructions on cross-modal sensory interactions" (by Rama, Iain Murray, and Dave Hairston, and myself) at the COSYNE meeting.

posted: Sunday February 28, 2010

I am teaching the graduate course Introduction to Machine Learning (CSC2515) this term.

posted: Wednesday January 6, 2010

I chaired the workshops and mini-symposia at NIPS this year.

posted: Tuesday December 15, 2009

Ben Marlin and I won the best paper award at RecSys-2009: 3rd ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, for Collaborative prediction and ranking with non-random missing data.

posted: Sunday October 25, 2009

Rama Natarajan successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis, on "Neural representation, learning and manipulation of uncertainty." She has moved to New York to work as an HHMI postdoc with Eero Simoncelli and Michael Landy at NYU.

posted: Thursday October 15, 2009

Maks Volkovs won the best student paper award at ICML-2009 for BoltzRank. [pdf]

posted: Monday June 22, 2009