Awards

Best Paper Award

• Tianyi Zhang (The University of Tokyo)
• Ikko Yamane (Université Paris Dauphine - PSL/RIKEN)
• Nan Lu (The University of Tokyo);
• Masashi Sugiyama (RIKEN/The University of Tokyo)

Best Student Paper Award

• Weipeng Huang (Insight Centre for Data Analytics, University College Dublin)
• Guangyuan Piao (Maynooth University)
• Raul Moreno (Insight Centre for Data Analytics, University College Dublin)
• Neil Joseph Hurley (University College Dublin)

Distinguished Contribution Award

Each year there is most one awardee, who must have contributed significantly to promote machine learning in the Geo-regions covered by ACML, by research and service; more details about the award at the ACML website.

This years awadee is Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) Thomas G. Dietterich of School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University. He was a founding member of the steering committee of ACML: he participated the first edition of ACML conference (2009, in Nanjing), and participated in the inaugural steering committee meeting at Nanjing during ACML 2009. Prof. Dietterich's acceptance speech for the award can be found on our website.

Tom was a founding member of the steering committee of the Asian Conference on Machine Learning. As a steering committee member, he helped chart the successful growth of the conference, and was instrumental in connecting ACML to the wider machine learning community, particularly in North America. He gave insightful keynote talks at ACML and is always inspiring junior members of the community at the conference. He has added substantial vibrancy to the machine learning community in this region. Tom stepped down from the steering committee last year but the foundation that he helped to set will continue to serve the conference well — Prof. Wee Sun Lee, ACML Distinguished Contribution Award Commitee