Googlers receive multiple awards at the 2010 International Conference on Machine Learning
July 27th, 2010 | Published in Google Research
Googlers were recognized in three of the four paper awards at ICML 2010:
- Sajid Siddiqi was co-recipient of the best paper award for Hilbert Space Embeddings of Hidden Markov Models with Le Song, Byron Boots, Geoff Gordon, and Alex Smola
- John Duchi, who is also a graduate student at UC Berkeley, was co-recipient of the best student paper award for On the Consistency of Ranking Algorithms with Lester Mackey and Michael Jordan
- And last but not the least, Yoram Singer was co-recipient of the best 10-year paper award for the most influential paper of ICML 2000, Reducing Multiclass to Binary: A Unifying Approach for Margin Classifiers (pdf) with Erin Allwein and Robert Schapire, which has currently 852 citations in Google Scholar.