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<b>Senior Program Committee</b>
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  <li>Yasemin Altun,	&nbsp;<i>Max Planck Institute, T&uuml;bingen</i></li>
  <li>Francis Bach,      &nbsp;<i>INRIA - &Eacute;cole Normale Sup&eacute;rieure</i></li>
  <li>Arnaud Doucet,     &nbsp;<i>University of British Columbia</i></li>
  <li>Hal Daume III,     &nbsp;<i>University of Utah</i></li>
  <li>Mark Girolami,     &nbsp;<i>University of Glasgow</i></li>         
  <li>Jim Griffin,     &nbsp;<i>University of Kent</i></li>
  <li>Carlos Guestrin, &nbsp;<i>Carnegie Mellon University</i></li>
  <li>Dirk Husmeier,      &nbsp;<i>Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland</i></li> 
  <li>Bani Mallick,      &nbsp;<i>Texas A&M University</i></li> 
  <li>Iain Murray,       &nbsp;<i>University of Toronto/University of Edinburgh</i></li>
  <li>Brendan Murphy,      &nbsp;<i>University College Dublin</i></li> 
  <li>Kevin Murphy, &nbsp;<i>University of British Columbia</i></li>
  <li>Omiros Papaspiliopoulos,      &nbsp;<i>Universitat Pompeu Fabra</i></li>
  <li>Thomas Richardson,		  &nbsp;<i>University of Washington</i></li>
  <li>Matthias Seeger,   &nbsp;<i>Saarland University/Max Planck Institute for Informatics</i></li>
  <li>Nathan Srebro,     &nbsp;<i>Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago</i></li>
  <li>Erik Sudderth,     &nbsp;<i>Brown University</i></li>
  <li>John Winn,         &nbsp;<i>Microsoft Research</i></li>
  <li>Ming Yuan,      &nbsp;<i>Georgia Tech</i></li>                          
  <li>Hui Zou,      &nbsp;<i>University of Minnesota</i></li>                 
</ul>

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</li><li>Pascal Poupart,    &nbsp;<i>University of Waterloo</i>
</li><li>Joris Mooij,       &nbsp;<i>Max Planck Institute, Tuebingen</i>
</li><li>Nati Srebro,       &nbsp;<i>University of Chicago / Toyota Technologial Institute</i>
</li><li>Iain Murray,       &nbsp;<i>University of Toronto</i>
</li><li>Pradeep Ravikumar, &nbsp;<i>University of California, Berkeley</i>
</li><li>Yee Whye Teh,      &nbsp;<i>Gatsby Unit, University College London</i>
</li><li>Luis Ortiz,        &nbsp;<i>SUNY Stonybrook</i>
</li><li>Nando de Freitas,  &nbsp;<i>University of British Columbia</i>
</li><li>Brian Milch,       &nbsp;<i>Massachusetts Insitute of Technology</i>
</li><li>Helen Zhang,       &nbsp;<i>North Carolina State University</i>
</li><li>David Dunson,      &nbsp;<i>Duke University</i>
</li><li>David Blei,        &nbsp;<i>Princeton University</i>
</li><li>Alan Qi,           &nbsp;<i>Purdue University</i>
</li><li>Rebecca Nugent,    &nbsp;<i>Carnegie Mellon University</i>
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<b>Advisory Board for European Meetings</b>: 
<ul>
  <li>Nicol&ograve; Cesa Bianchi,    &nbsp;<i>Universit&agrave; degli Studi di Milano</i></li>
  <li>Phil Dawid,             &nbsp;<i>University of Cambridge</i></li>
  <li>Zoubin Ghahramani,      &nbsp;<i>University of Cambridge</i></li>
  <li>David Hand,             &nbsp;<i>Imperial College, London</i></li>
  <li>Sami Kaski,             &nbsp;<i>Helsinki University of Technology</i></li>
  <li>Daryl Pregibon,         &nbsp;<i>Google Research, New York</i></li>
  <li>Bernhard Sch&ouml;lkopf,    &nbsp;<i>Max Planck Institute, T&uuml;bingen</i></li>
  <li>John Shawe-Taylor,      &nbsp;<i>University College London</i></li>
  <li>Max Welling,            &nbsp;<i>University of California, Irvine</i></li>
  <li>Chris Williams,          &nbsp;<i>University of Edinburgh</i></li>
</ul>



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