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2014 Organizing Committee:

General Chairs:
Zoubin Ghahramani (University of Cambridge)
Max Welling (University of Amsterdam)

Program Chairs:
Corinna Cortes (Google)
Neil Lawrence (University of Sheffield)

Tutorials Chair:
Jeff Bilmes (University of Washington)

Workshop Chairs:
Francis Bach (INRIA & ENS)
Amir Globerson (Hebrew University)

Demonstration Chair:
Hugo Larochelle (Université de Sherbrooke)

Publications Chair and Electronic Proceedings Chair:
Kilian Weinberger (Washington University in St. Louis)

Program Manager:
Alan Saul (University of Sheffield)

2014 Program Committee:

Jacob Abernethy (University of Michigan)
Ryan Adams (Harvard University)
Deepak Agarwal (LinkedIn)
Edo Airoldi (Harvard University)
Anima Anandkumar (UC Irvine)
Paolo Avesani (FBK - NiLab, Trento, Italy)
Borja Balle (McGill University)
Peter Bartlett (Queensland University/UC Berkeley)
Mikhail Belkin (Ohio State University)
Samy Bengio (Google Research)
Kristin Bennett (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Jeff Bilmes (University of Washington, Seattle)
Matthew Blaschko (Inria Saclay)
David Blei (Princeton)
Karsten Borgwardt (MPI for Intelligent Systems)
Leon Bottou (Microsoft Research)
Guillaume Bouchard (Xerox Research Centre Grenoble)
Michael Bowling (Alberta)
Sebastien Bubeck (Princeton)
Lawrence Carin (Duke)
Miguel Carreira-Perpinan (UC Merced)
Trevor Cohn (University of Melbourne)
Marco Cuturi (Kyoto University)
Florence d'Alche-Buc (Université d'Evry-Val d'Essonne)
Virginia De Sa (UCSD)
Arnaud Doucet (Oxford)
François Fleuret (Idiap Research Institute)
Claudio Gentile (DiSTA, Universita dell’Insubria, Italy)
Mohammad Ghavamzadeh (INRIA & Adobe Research)
Geoff Gordon (Carnegie Mellon)
Dilan Gorur (Microsoft)
Philipp Hennig (MPI Tübingen)
Tom Heskes (Radboud)
Bert Huang (University of Maryland)
Christian Igel ( University of Copenhagen)
Thorsten Joachims (Cornell)
Brian Kingsbury (IBM Research)
Jyrki Kivinen (University of Helsinki)
Andreas Krause (ETH Zurich)
Brian Kulis (Ohio State U)
Sanjiv Kumar ( Google Research)
Gert Lanckriet (UCSD)
Hugo Larochelle (Université de Sherbrooke)
Guy Lebanon (Amazon)
Honglak Lee (University of Michigan)
Robert Legenstein (Graz University of Technology)
Lihong Li (Microsoft Research)
Phil Long (Microsoft)
Aurelie Lozano ( IBM Research)
Lester Mackey (Stanford University)
Michael Mahoney (UC Berkeley)
Benjamin Marlin (UMass Amherst)
Mehryar Mohri (Courant Institute and Google)
Iain Murray (University of Edinburgh)
Hartmut Neven (Google Research)
Jennifer Neville (Purdue University)
Sebastian Nowozin (MSR Cambridge)
Guillaume Obozinski ( Ecole des Ponts - ParisTech)
Mike Osborne (University of Oxford)
Sinno Pan (National University of Singapore)
Jan Peters (TU Darmstadt)
Joaquin Quinonero-Candela (Facebook)
Marc'Aurelio Ranzato (Facebook)
Steve Renals (University of Edinburgh)
Afshin Rostamizadeh (Google Research)
Dale Schuurmans (University of Alberta)
D Sculley (Google Research)
Ricardo Silva (UCL)
Alex Slivkins (Microsoft Research)
Suvrit Sra (MPI for Intelligent Systems & CMU)
Oliver Stegle (EMBL-EBI)
Amos Storkey (University of Edinburgh)
Charles Sutton (University of Edinburgh)
Umar Syed (Google Research)
Bill Triggs (CNRS)
Koji Tsuda (Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)
Nicolas Usunier (Université de Technologie de Compiègne)
Eleni Vasilaki (University of Sheffield)
Sergei Vassilvitskii (Google Research)
Aki Vehtari (Aalto University)
Jean-Philippe Vert (Mines ParisTech)
Kilian Weinberger (Washington University in St. Louis)
Yair Weiss (Hebrew University)
Rich Wilkinson (University of Nottingham)
Robert Williamson (NICTA)
David Wipf (Microsoft Research)
Jennifer Wortman Vaughan (Microsoft Research)
John Wright (Columbia University)
Byron Yu (CMU)
Alan Yuille (UCLA)
Richard Zemel (University of Toronto)
Tong Zhang (Baidu/Rutgers)