A while back, I wrote a post on how to write an academic research statement. This is a follow-up post on how to write an academic teaching statement, and contains my thoughts on what makes for a good teaching statement when applying to computer science departments in US research universities. Like I said about research statements, the teaching statement...

Julian McAuley and I are organizing the Southern California Machine Learning Symposium, on Friday November 18 at Caltech! http://dolcit.cms.caltech.edu/scmls/ ** CPF Deadline is October 4th!! The SoCal ML Symposium brings together students and faculty to promote machine learning in the Southern California region. The workshop serves as a forum for...

I want to give a plug for STATS LLC, which is building a data science team and has several openings for data scientist positions. For those who don't know, STATS is sports data company that provides the tracking data for the National Basketball Association, amongst other sports and leagues. STATS also recently acquired Prozone, which provides tracking...

A few weeks ago, I attended NIPS 2015, which turned out to be (by far) the largest machine learning conference ever. With nearly 4000 attendees, the conference saw a roughly 50% increase from the previous year. Much of this growth seems fueled by industry interest, especially in topics such as deep learning and large scale learning. Deep learning,...

Last month I attended KDD 2015 in beautiful Sydney, Australia. For those who don't know, KDD is the premier international conference for applied machine learning & data mining, and is often the venue for some of the most interesting data analysis research projects. Despite concerns that KDD 2015 would be a let down after KDD 2014 was such a great...

We are pleased to announce that the KDD Workshop on Large-Scale Sports Analytics will be taking place in Sydney this year on August the 10th at KDD 2015. Similar to last year, it will be a full day workshop consisting of invited speakers as well as poster sessions for submitted papers. A call for paper submissions is below. === Call for Submissions...