2008Summer, 2008 : New postdoctoral Lane Fellow for Computational Biology Le Song has joined the SAILING Lab after finishing his doctoral work on "Learning via Hilbert Space Embedding of Distributions" at the University of Sydney April, 2008 : One submission to UAI has been accepted. It is : S. Kim and E. P. Xing, Sparse Feature Learning in High-Dimensional Space via Block Regularized Regression April, 2008 : One submission to COLT has been accepted. It is : S. Hanneke, Teaching Dimension and the Complexity of Active Learning. April, 2008 : Three submissions to ICML have been accepted for publication. They are : J. Zhu, E. P. Xing, B. Zhang, Laplace Maximum Margin Markov Networks A. Martins, M. Figueiredo, P. Aguiar, N. A. Smith and E. P. Xing, Nonextensive Entropic Kernels S. Shringarpure and E. P. Xing, mStruct: A New Admixture Model for Inference of Population Structure in Light of Both Genetic Admixing and Allele Mutations March, 2008 : Steve Hanneke proposed his thesis problem for the degree of Ph D in Machine Learning March, 2008 : Eric Xing has been awarded the Sloan Research Fellowship for 2008. See the complete list here. February, 2008 : Steve Hanneke has been awarded the IBM Research Fellowship. |