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Officers

President: Isabelle Guyon, Université Paris-Saclay, France
Vice-president: Sergio Escalera, University of Barcelona, Spain
Secretary: Wei-Wei Tu, 4Paradigm, China
Treasurer: Kristin Bennett, RPI, USA

​Workgroups

AutoML [workshops][competitions][wiki]
Automatic machine learning (build the perfect ML black box without human intervention). Satellite work:
Big Data: Means of crowdsourcing big data problems.
Coopetition: Brainstorm on a new kind of competitions involving collaborations.
ModelSelect: Designers of a model selection toolkit.
Hackathons: Prepare brief challenges to test new "coopetition" designs.
Unsupervised: Organize benchmarks in unsupervised learning.
Deep Learning: Means of using and benchmarking deep learning.
MetaLearning: Organization of meta-learning challenges.
AutoSurvey: Automated generation and reviewing of survey papers.

CiML [Springer series][Microtome][workshops][wiki]
Fundamentals in challenge organization.
Challenges in Machine Learning book series and workshops.
Satellite work:
Codalab and Platform: Brainstorm of the ChaLearn platform.
Reading: Weekly paper discussions.
Teaching: Brainstorm on ways to "teach challenges".

Looking at People [new website][old website][wiki]
(group: gesture)
Organize gesture recognition and looking at people challenges.
Speed Interviews: Prepare a challenge on multi-modal data and coopetitions.

Causality and feature selection [workbench]
(group: causality)
BrainCode: Brainstorming on a challenge to "crack the brain code".
CausaSimul: Designers of realistic simulators of real systems to benchmark experimental design and causal discovery methods.
Connectomics: Organize neural network reconstruction challenges.
Local Feature Selection: Prepare a challenge on personalized medicine.

Physics and scientific challenges
Higgs Boson challenge
Fair Universe (study of systematic errors in Physics simulators)
TrackML: tracking challenge.
RAMP: scientific challenges.
See.4C: Spatio-temporal time series, and work with RTE.
Learning to run a power network: RL challenge series with RTE.

Teaching
RAMP: challenges in the classroom at Paris-Saclay.
Teaching challenges: M2 class at Paris-Saclay BUILD challenges.
INCITE: challenges for medical students.

Most workgroups have an associated mailing list [email protected].

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Directors
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Kristin Bennett, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New-York, USA
Hugo-Jair Escalante Balderas, Nat. Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE), Mexico
Sergio Escalera, University of Barcelona, Spain
Anne-Catherine Letournel, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France
Antoine Marot, RTE, France
Magali Richard, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France
​David Rousseau, Université Paris-Saclay, France
Sébastien Treguer, La Paillasse, France
Wei-Wei Tu, 4Paradigm, China
​Evelyne Viegas, Microsoft, USA

Advisors and former directors 

Mahmoud Abou-Nasr, Ford Motor Company, USA
Constantin Aliferis, New York University, New-York, USA
Vassilis Athitsos, University of Texas at Arlington, Texas, USA
Xavier Baró, CVC, UAB, Barcelona, Spain
Gavin Cawley, University of East Anglia, UK
Gideon Dror, Academic college of Tel-Aviv Yaffo, Israel
Andre Elisseeff, Google Zurich, Switzerland
Lee Giles, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Jordi Gonzàlez, CVC, UAB, Barcelona, Spain
Bill Howell, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Balazs Kegl, CNRS, University Paris-Saclay, France
Branislav Kisacanin, Dallas, Texas, USA
Vincent Lemaire, Orange Labs, France
​Chih Jen Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Antoine Ly, Data Science Game and Milliman, France
Florin Popescu, Fraunhofer Institute, Berlin, Germany
Mehreen Saeed, FAST, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Lahore Campus, Pakistan
Amir Saffari, Sony, London, UK
Richard Scheines, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
Danny Silver, Acadia University, Canada
Peter Spirtes, Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania, USA
Alexandre Statninov, Americam Express, New York, USA
Nicola Talbot, University of East Anglia, UK
Alexandre Templier, Quinten, France
Ioannis Tsamardinos, University of Crete, Greece
Jun Wan, Chinese Academy of Science, China
Joerg Wichard, Bayer Healthcare AG, Berlin, Germany
Jianjun Xie, ID Analytics, Inc., San Diego, California