Ankur Parikh is a 6th year PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University and is advised by Prof. Eric Xing. His research interests are in linear algebra methods for probabilistic modeling, natural language processing, and computational biology. He received a best paper runner up at EMNLP 2014, a best paper in translational bioinformatics at ISMB 2011 and an NSF Graduate Fellowship. Previously he was the primary organizer of the NIPS 2012 spectral learning workshop, and a co-organizer of the ICML 2013 spectral learning workshop.
Avneesh Saluja is a 5th year PhD student at Carnegie Mellon and is advised by Prof. Chris Dyer. His research interests are in natural language processing (particularly machine translation) and machine learning, particularly graph-based and spectral techniques. He received an eBay Graduate Fellowship in 2014 and a best paper runner up at EMNLP 2014.
Chris Dyer is an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon and obtained his PhD from the University of Maryland in 2010. His research interests lie at or near the intersection of machine learning, natural language processing, and linguistics, particularly multilinguality. Recently, he co-organized the 20 years of bitext workshop at EMNLP 2013 and received a best paper honorable mention and runner up at ACL 2014 and EMNLP 2014 respectively.
Eric Xing is a professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon. His principal research interests lie in the development of machine learning and statistical methodology, and large-scale computational system and architecture, for solving problems involving automated learning, reasoning, and decision-making in high-dimensional, multimodal, and dynamic possible worlds in complex systems. He is a member of the DARPA Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Advisory Group, a recipient of the NSF Career Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the United States Air Force Young Investigator Award, and the IBM Open Collaborative Research Faculty Award. He has co-organized workshops at NIPS 2007/2008/2012 and ICML 2007/2011/2014.