General Chairs: Samy Bengio (Google Brain)

Program Chair: Hanna Wallach (Microsoft Research)

Program Co-chairs Hugo Larochelle (Google Brain)Kristen Grauman (Univ. of Texas at Austin & Facebook AI Research)Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi (Univ. of Milan)

Tutorials Chairs: Jenn Wortman Vaughan (Microsoft Research) Samuel Kaski (Aalto Univ. & Univ. of Helsinki)

Workshop Chairs: Joaquin Quiñonero Candela (Facebook)Suchi Saria (Johns Hopkins Univ.)

Demonstration and Competition Chairs: Ralf Herbrich (Amazon)Sergio Escalera (Univ. of Barcelona, ChaLearn)

Press ChairNeil Lawrence (Univ. of Sheffield / Amazon Cambridge)Katherine Gorman (Talking Machines / Collective Next)

Publications Chair & Electronic Proceedings Chair: Roman Garnett (Washington Univ. in St. Louis)

Diversity and Inclusion Chairs: Hal Daumé III (Univ. of Maryland / Microsoft Research)Katherine A. Heller (Duke Univ.)

Party ChairDouglas Eck (Google Brain)

Workflow EngineerJeshuran Thangaraj (The Salk Institute)

Volunteer Workflow TeamTrapit Bansal (Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst)Mathieu Germain (Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms)Chinmay Singh (Microsoft Research)

NIPS EXPO DEC 2nd

TUTORIALS DEC 3rd

CONFERENCE DEC 4th - 6th

WORKSHOPS DEC 7th - 8th

NIPS EXPO is a new component of NIPS on Sunday, December 2, preceding the Tutorials. NIPS sponsors will present talks, panels, workshops, and demonstrations on topics that are relevant to the NIPS community. Participants must register for the EXPO

MONTREAL | DEC 3 - 8 | NIPS.CC