Google Faculty Research Award 2016 given to Martin Jaggi
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IC Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Martin Jaggi - of the Machine Learning and Optimization Laboratory, has been awarded a Google Faculty Research Award 2016 of $82,000 USD in Machine Learning and Data mining in view of his project: “A Computational View on Sentence Embeddings.”
The project aims to address issues in the field of text understanding to improve the quality, the computational performance and the theoretical understanding of learning representations for sequences of words, particularly from unsupervised machine training.
The project team’s work will attempt to improve and extend the methods for incorporation of unsupervised information, computational efficiency and distributed implementations, as well as the theoretical understanding of such neural net inspired models.
The Google Faculty Research Awards are structured as seed funding to support one graduate student for one year and are awarded as an unrestricted gift. The award is highly competitive; each proposal goes through a rigorous review process and only 15% of applicants receive funding.
The Awards Program recognizes and supports world-class faculty pursuing cutting-edge research in areas of mutual interest, while identifying and strengthening long-term collaborative relationships with researchers working to solve issues with an impact on how future generations use technology.