Prominent AI conference features 9 papers & posters from ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ

Master's student Tyler Scott gives a presentation on his team's work during NeurIPS.
The Department of Computer Science’s AI chops were on full display this month at , the year’s biggest conference on machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Professor Mike Mozer servesÌýas secretary on the conference’s board, while Associate Professor Claire Monteleoni was an area chair on the program committee. Monteleoni also servesÌýon the senior advisory council of the Workshop for Women in Machine Learning, which takes place annually at NeurIPS.
In addition to helping plan the conference, which sold out its 8,000 seats within hoursÌýand had 150 industry sponsors, Mozer and Monteleoni’s teams also had several papers and posters accepted to the conference.
Monteleoni’s postdoctoral researcher, Sophie Giffard-Roisin, presented a poster on in the spatiotemporal domain workshop. Mozer’s team – including ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ students Karl Ridgeway andÌýTyler Scott – presented three papers:
Assistant Professor Rafael Frongillo and PhD student Jessie Finnochiaro also had a spotlight paper, , in the main NeurIPS conference, while visiting scholar Vincent Cohen-Addad presented on .
Bo Waggoner, who will join the department as an assistant professor in 2019, had three papers in the conference:
- (with Frongillo)
Stephen Becker of applied math also had a paper, , accepted to the conference.
Photo at right:ÌýRafael Frongillo, Bo Waggoner and Jessie Finnochiaro of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ with Daniel Mutembesa of Makerere University in Uganda.