Googlers receive multiple awards at the 2010 International Conference on Machine Learning

Posted by Fernando Pereira, Research Director

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.

I feel a particular connection to this last paper as Rob and Yoram were members of technical staff and Erin a student intern at the department I headed at AT&T Labs when this work was done.

Congratulations to all!