Louis. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in Machine Learning under the supervision of Lawrence Saul and his undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Oxford. During his career he has won several best paper awards at ICML, CVPR, AISTATS and KDD (runner-up award). In 2011 he was awarded the Outstanding AAAI senior program chair award and in 2012 he received an NSF CAREER award. Kilian Weinberger’s research is in Machine Learning and its applications. In particular, he focuses on high dimensional data analysis, resource efficient learning, metric learning, machine learned web-search ranking, transfer- and multi-task learning as well as biomedical applications. Before joining Washington University in St. Louis, Kilian worked as a research scientist at Yahoo! Research in Santa Clara.