CSE’s Hoifung Poon has won the “Best Paper” award from the 2011 Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2011), to be held July 14-17 in Barcelona, for the paper “Sum-Product Networks: A New Deep Architecture,” co-authored with his Ph.D. advisor, CSE’s Pedro Domingos.
It’s the third major-conference “Best Paper” award in as many years for Hoifung, who successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation yesterday.
Congratulations Hoifung!