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<h2>Senior Program Committee</h2>

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  <li>Edoardo Airoldi, <i>Harvard University</i></li>
<li>Florence d'Alche-Buc, <i>Universit&eacute; d'Evry-Val d'Essonne</i></li>
<li>C&eacute;dric Archambeau, <i>Amazon</i></li>
<li>Peter Auer, <i>University of Leoben</i></li>
<li>Erik Aurell, <i>KTH</i></li>
<li>Yoshua Bengio, <i>Universit&eacute; de Montr&eacute;al</i></li>
<li>Carlo Berzuini, <i>University of Manchester</i></li>
<li>Jeff A. Bilmes, <i>University of Washington</i></li>
<li>Wray Buntine, <i>NICTA</i></li>
<li>Lawrence Carin, <i>Duke University</i></li>
<li>Guido Consonni, <i>Universit&agrave; Cattolica del Sacro Cuore</i></li>
<li>Koby Crammer, <i>The Technion</i></li>
<li>Emily B. Fox, <i>University of Washington</i></li>
<li>Mehmet G&ouml;nen, <i>Sage Bionetworks</i></li>
<li>Aapo Hyv&auml;rinen, <i>University of Helsinki</i></li>
<li>Timo Koski, <i>KTH</i></li>
<li>John Paisley, <i>Columbia University</i></li>
<li>Jan Peters, <i>Technische Universit&auml;t Darmstadt</i></li>
<li>Volker Roth, <i>Universit&auml;t Basel</i></li>
<li>Yevgeny Seldin, <i>Queensland University of Technology and UC Berkeley</i></li>
<li>Scott Sisson, <i>University of New South Wales</i></li>
<li>Suvrit Sra, <i>Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems</i></li>
<li>Masashi Sugiyama, <i>Tokyo Institute of Technology</i></li>
<li>Joe Suzuki, <i>Osaka University</i></li>
<li>Bill Triggs, <i>Centre National de Recherche Scientifique</i></li>
<li>Aki Vehtari, <i>Aalto University</i></li>
<li>Jean-Philippe Vert, <i>Mines ParisTech and Curie Institute</i></li>
<li>Stephen Walker, <i>University of Texas at Austin</i></li>
<li>Kun Zhang, <i>Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems</i></li>
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<h2>Advisory Board for European Meetings</h2>

<p>The European meetings of AISTATS are organized by the European Society for Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. Its advisory board is:</p>
<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>Aalto University</i></li>
<li>Neil Lawrence,          &nbsp;<i>University of Sheffield</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 Amsterdam</i></li>
<li>Chris Williams,          &nbsp;<i>University of Edinburgh</i></li>
</ul>

<p>European AISTATS Executive Board:
<ul>
<li>Neil Lawrence,          &nbsp;<i>University of Sheffield</i></li>
<li>Bernhard Sch&ouml;lkopf,    &nbsp;<i>Max Planck Institute, T&uuml;bingen</i></li>
</ul>

<h3>Local Contact Email Address</h3>

The local contact email address for AISTATS 2014 is <a href="mailto:aistats@iiim.is">aistats@iiim.is</a>.
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