This workshop aims to bring together researchers from academia and industry to discuss major challenges, outline recent advances, and highlight future directions pertaining to novel and existing large-scale real-world experiment design and active learning problems. We aim to highlight new and emerging research opportunities for the machine learning community that arise from the evolving needs to make experiment design and active learning procedures that are theoretically and practically relevant for realistic applications.

The intended audience and participants include everyone whose research interests, activities, and applications involve experiment design, active learning, bandit/Bayesian optimization, efficient exploration, and parameter search methods and techniques. We expect the workshop to attract substantial interest from researchers working in both academia and industry. The research of our invited speakers spans both theory and applications, and represents a diverse range of domains where experiment design and active learning are of fundamental importance (including robotics & control, biology, physical sciences, crowdsourcing, citizen science, etc.).


The schedule is with respect to UTC (i.e., Universal Time) time zone.