Organizing committee

General Chair

• Andrew McCallum University of Massachusetts Amherst

Program Chairs

• John Langford Yahoo! Research
• Joelle Pineau McGill University

Local Chair

• Charles Sutton University of Edinburgh

Workshop Chairs

• Francis Bach INRIA
• Irina Rish IBM Research

Tutorial Chairs

• Rob Schapire Princeton University
• Olivier Chapelle Yahoo! Research

Publication Chairs

• Kilian Weinberger Washington University, St. Louis
• Amir Globerson Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Publicity Chair

• Jingrui He IBM Research

Scholarship Chair

• Jesse Davis KU Leuven

Funding Chair

• S V N Vishwanathan Purdue University

Volunteers and Registration Chair

• Iain Murray University of Edinburgh

Local Organizing Committee

• Chris Williams University of Edinburgh
• Amos Storkey University of Edinburgh
• Guido Sanguinetti University of Edinburgh
• Sethu Vijayakumar University of Edinburgh

Workflow Manager

• Mahdi Milani Fard McGill University

Webmaster

• Francesco Figari University of Edinburgh

Program committee members

See the Program Committee instructions.

Full list of program committee members

Area Chairs

See the Area Chairs instructions.

• Alan Fern Oregon State University
• Alina Beygelzimer IBM Research
• Andreas Krause California Institute of Technology
• Arindam Banerjee University of Minnesota
• Arthur Gretton University College London
• Ben Taskar University of Pennsylvania
• Charles Elkan University of California
• Claire Monteleoni Columbia University
• Csaba Szepesvari University of Alberta
• Dale Schuurmans University of Alberta
• Daniel Hsu Microsoft Research
• David Blei Princeton University
• David McAllester University of Chicago
• Drew Bagnell Carnegie Mellon University
• Elad Hazan Israel Institute of Technology
• Filip Radlinski Microsoft Research
• Frank McSherry Microsoft Research
• Geoff Gordon Carnegie Mellon
• Hal Daume University of Maryland
• Hoifung Poon Microsoft Research
• Inderjit Dhillon University of Texas
• Jennifer Wortman Vaughan University of California, Los Angeles
• Jerry Zhu University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Jure Leskovec Stanford University
• Kilian Weinberger Washington University
• Kristian Kersting University of Bonn
• Lawrence Carin Duke University
• Lihong Li Yahoo! Research
• Marc'Aurelio Ranzato University of Toronto
• Mario Marchand Université Laval
• Michael Bowling University of Alberta
• Miroslav Dudik Yahoo! Research
• Naoki Abe IBM Research
• Olivier Chapelle Yahoo! Research
• Pedro Domingos University of Washington
• Peter Stone University of Texas
• Pradeep Ravikumar University of Texas
• Rich Caruana Microsoft Research
• Rich Zemel University of Toronto
• Ruslan Salakhutdinov Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• S V N Vishwanathan Purdue University
• Samy Bengio Google
• Sanjoy Dasgupta University of California, San Diego
• Satyen Kale IBM Research
• Thorsten Joachims Cornell University
• Tobias Scheffer University of Potsdam
• Tong Zhang Rutgers University
• Yee Whye Teh University College London
• Yoshua Bengio Université de Montréal
• Zoubin Ghahramani University of Cambridge