Last year, we started a new award program called the MLconf Industry Impact Student Research Award, which is sponsored by Google. Our committee of distinguished ML professionals reviewed several nominations sent in from members of the MLconf community. There were several great researchers that were nominated and the committee arrived at awarding 2 students whose work, they believe, has the potential to disrupt the industry in the future. The two winners that were announced at MLconf SF 2015 were UC Irvine Student, Furong Huang and UC Berkeley Student, Virginia Smith.
We’ve partnered with Google again to host the award for 2016. This year, we’re offering more direction to members for the community, regarding the areas of research that we’re interested in. Below is a list of some of the topics we’re interested in hearing about. Topics include, but certainly are not limited to:
- Natural Language Processing
- Deep Learning
- Sketching Randomized Algorithms
- Game Theory
- Community Detection
- Large-Scale Clustering
- Time Series
- Image Analysis
- Bayesian Non-Parametrics
- Topic Models
- Probabilistic Programming
We’re interested in other areas of research – please don’t let this short list prevent a submission of interesting work. If you have any questions, please email submissions@mlconf.com.
Submissions will be accepted until Friday, October 28th, 2016. The winner of the award will be announced at MLconf SF on 11/11/2016. Recommend someone using this form!
