General chair: Joelle Pineau (McGill University)
Program chairs: Francis Bach (INRIA – Ecole Normale Supérieure) and David Blei (Columbia University)
Local organization chair: Philippe Preux (University of Lille, France)
Tutorial chair: Jennifer Neville (Purdue University)
Workshop chair: Marco Cuturi (Kyoto University)
Volunteer chair: Ben Marlin (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Publication chairs: Percy Liang (Stanford University) and David Sontag (New York University)
Publicity chair: Jingrui He (Arizona State University)
Financial Chairs: Gert Lanckriet (University of California, San Diego – UCSD) and Kilian Weinberger (Washington University in St. Louis)
Workflow chair: Alp Kucukelbir (Columbia University)
Webmaster: Jérémie Mary (University of Lille, France)
Local volunteer chair: Romaric Gaudel (University of Lille, France)
Area Chairs :
| LastName | FirstName | Organization |
| Abernethy | Jacob | U. of Michigan |
| Adams | Ryan | Harvard |
| Agarwal | Alekh | Microsoft |
| Airoldi | Edoardo | Harvard |
| Anandkumar | Animashree | UCI |
| Archambeau | Cedric | Amazon |
| Balcan | Maria-Florina | CMU |
| Banerjee | Arindam | U. of Minnesota |
| Bengio | Samy | |
| Bengio | Yoshua | U. of Montreal |
| Bennett | Paul | Microsoft |
| Bhattacharyya | Chiranjib | Indian Institute of Science |
| Bilmes | Jeff | U. of Washington |
| Bordes | Antoine | |
| Bouchard | Guillaume | Xerox |
| Boutillier | Craig | U. of Toronto |
| Boyd-graber | Jordan | U. of Maryland |
| Brunskill | Emma | CMU |
| Bubeck | Sebastien | Princeton |
| Cappe | Olivier | CNRS |
| Caramanis | Constantine | U. of Texas |
| Cortes | Corinna | |
| Courville | Aaron | U. Montreal |
| Cramer | Koby | Technion |
| Cuturi | Marco | Kyoto |
| d’Alche-Buc | Florence | IBISC |
| De Freitas | Nando | University of Oxford |
| Duchi | John | Stanford |
| Elkan | Charles | UC San Diego |
| Engelhardt | Barbara | Duke |
| Fergus | Rob | |
| Fox | Emily | University of Washington |
| Fukumizu | Kenji | Institute of Statistical Mathematics |
| Globerson | Amir | Hebrew University |
| Grauman | Kristen | U. of Texas |
| Harchaoui | Zaid | INRIA |
| Hein | Matthias | Saarland |
| Heller | Katherine | Duke University |
| Hoffman | Matthew | Adobe |
| Hsu | Daniel | Columbia |
| Ihler | Alex | UC Irvine |
| Kappen | Bert | Radboud University |
| Kolar | Mladen | U of Chicago |
| Krause | Andreas | ETH Zurich |
| Kulis | Brian | Ohio |
| Kwok | James | HKUST |
| Lacoste-Julien | Simon | INRIA |
| Langford | John | Microsoft |
| Larochelle | Hugo | U Sherbrooke |
| Laviolette | Francois | U of Laval |
| Le Roux | Nicolas | Criteo |
| Lee | Honglak | University of Michigan |
| Lescovec | Jure | Stanford |
| Li | Lihong | Microsoft |
| Liang | Percy | Stanford |
| Nguyen | Long | U. of Michigan |
| Lozano | Aurelie | IBM Research |
| Mackey | Lester | Stanford |
| Mairal | Julien | INRIA |
| Marlin | Ben | U. of Massachussetts |
| McAuliffe | Jon | Berkeley |
| Meila | Marina | U. of Washington |
| Mimno | David | Cornell |
| Monteleoni | Claire | George Washington U. |
| Munos | Remi | INRIA |
| Murray | Iain | University of Edinburgh |
| Nowozin | Sebastian | Microsoft |
| Obozinski | Guillaume | Ecole des Ponts |
| Paisley | John | Columbia |
| Pontil | Massimiliano | UCL |
| Poupart | Pascal | University of Waterloo |
| Precup | Doina | McGill |
| Ravikumar | Pradeep | UT Austin |
| Rish | Irina | IBM Research |
| Rosasco | Lorenzo | MIT |
| Roth | Dan | UIUC |
| Rudin | Cynthia | MIT |
| S. V. N. | Vishwanathan | UCSC |
| Salakhudinov | Ruslan | U. of Toronto |
| Scheffer | Tobias | Potsdam |
| Schmidt | Mark | U. of British Columbia |
| Schuurmans | Dale | U of Alberta |
| Sha | Fei | U of South. Cal. |
| Shalev-Shwartz | Shai | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Singh | Aarti | CMU |
| Singh | Satinder | U. of Michigan |
| Smola | Alex | CMU |
| Sontag | David | NYU |
| Sra | Suvrit | Max Planck Institute |
| Srebro | Nathan | TTI-Chicago |
| Stone | Peter | U. of Texas |
| Sudderth | Erik | Brown |
| Sutton | Rich | U. of Alberta |
| Szepesvari | Csaba | U of Alberta |
| Teh | Yee-Whye | Oxford |
| Urtasun | Raquel | U. of Toronto |
| Varma | Manik | Microsoft |
| Vasconcelos | Nuno | UCSD |
| Vayatis | Nicolas | ENS Cachan |
| Vert | Jean-Philippe | Paris Tech |
| Wallach | Hanna | Microsoft Research |
| Weinberger | Kilian | Washington U. in St. Louis |
| Wiliamson | Sinead | U. of Texas |
| Wingate | David | Lyric Labs |
| Zhang | Nevin | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| Zhang | Tong | Rutgers |
| Zheng | Alice | GraphLab |
| Zhu | Jun | Tsinghua University |
| Zhu | Xiaojin | University of Wisconsin |