The fourth New England Machine Learning Day (NEML) will be May 18th, 2015, 10am-5pm (breakfast/registration opens at 9am), at 1 Memorial Dr. (floor 1) in Kendall Square. Like previous years, it will bring together local researchers in machine learning and related fields, as well as those who use ML in applications. There will be a lively poster session during lunch.

Deadline 4/27/15: To submit a poster, please email a title, list of authors and affiliations, and abstract of at most three paragraphs to MLday15@microsoft.com. Please also encourage students to attend and submit posters.

To plan for food and seating, if you expect to attend, please register here. If registration exceeds capacity, priority will be given to students, faculty, and those who have registered earliest.

Invited speakers:

Tamara Broderick (MIT)
Jennifer Dy (Northeastern)
Krzysztof Gajos (Harvard)
David Jensen (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Tim Kraska (Brown)
Jennifer Listgarten (Microsoft Research)
Ankur Moitra (MIT)
Suvrit Sra (MIT)

For more information/updates, see the website: http://research.microsoft.com/events/neml2015/

Please help us publicize the event by forwarding to appropriate mailing lists.

Hope to see you there,

Carla Brodley (Northeastern)

Finale Doshi-Velez (Harvard)

Stefanie Jegelka (MIT)

Adam Tauman Kalai (Microsoft Research)

The steering committee that selects the organizers of NEML each year consists of Ryan P. Adams, Sham Kakade, Adam Kalai, and Josh Tenenbaum.

Hospitality Notice for University and Government Employees:

Microsoft Research is providing hospitality at this event. Please consult with your institution to determine whether you can accept meals and other hospitality under your institution’s ethics rules and any other laws that might apply. By accepting our invitation, you confirm that this invitation is compliant with your institution’s policies.