Awards & Media Coverage

Selected Awards and Recognitions

(2022) ERC Starting Grant (Funded by SERI for Swiss Institutes)
(2021) Generation Google Scholarship: Nezihe Merve Gürel
(2020) Best Proposal Paper Award at ICLR Workshop on Tackling Climate Change with ML: TrueBranch: Metric Learning-based Verification of Forest Conservation Projects
(2019) Latin American Innovators under 35: external pageLeonel Aguilar
(2019) IBM Q Best paper award: Bayesian Deep Learning on a Quantum Computer
(2018) One of the Focused Research Awards from Google AI.
(2018) CoNLL special award for the best paper on research inspired by human language learning and processing: Sequence Classification with Human Attention
(2015) SIGMOD Research Hightlight Award: Incremental knowledge base construction using DeepDive
(2015) "Bests of VLDB": Incremental knowledge base construction using DeepDive
(2014) SIGMOD Best Paper: Materialization Optimizations for Feature Selection Workloads

Selected Media Coverage

MIT Technology Review

external pageHow AI could save lives without spilling medical secrets

QuantaMagazine

external pageHow Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Science

WIRED

external pageTracking Readers’ Eye Movements Can Help Computers Learn

Science

external pageAI in Action: Machines that make sense of the sky

The Atlantic

external pageMachine Learning Is Bringing the Cosmos Into Focus

WIRED

external pageAstronomers Deploy AI to Unravel the Mysteries of the Universe