Organization

Co-chairs

• • Roman Garnett

  • Frank Hutter

  • Joaquin Vanschoren

Organizing committee

• • Pavel Brazdil

  • Christophe Giraud-Carrier

  • Isabelle Guyon

Program committee

• • Bruno Almeida Pimentel, ICMC-USP

  • Adelson Araújo Júnior, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte J£nior

  • Paul Azunre, New Knowledge

  • Eytan Bakshy, University of Michigan

  • Leonardo Bezerra, DCC, CI, UFPB

  • Carsten Binnig, TU Darmstadt

  • Bernd Bischl, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

  • Xavier Bouthillier, MILA

  • Pavel Brazdil, University of Porto

  • Andr‚ de Carvalho, University of São Paulo

  • Kyriakos Chatzidimitriou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

  • Irene Cordoba-Sanchez, Universidad Polit‚cnica de Madrid

  • Cyrus Cousins, Brown University

  • Gary Delaney, CSIRO

  • Neil Dhir, University of Oxford

  • Iddo Drori, NYU and Columbia University

  • David Duvenaud, Harvard University

  • Katharina Eggensperger, University of Freiburg

  • Thomas Elsken, Bosch

  • Hugo Jair Escalante, INAOE

  • Sergio Escalera, Computer Vision Center and University of Barcelona

  • Stefan Falkner, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg

  • Matthias Feurer, Albert-Ludwigs-Universit„t Freiburg

  • Luca Franceschi, University College London & Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

  • Roman Garnett, University of Washington Saint Louis

  • Eduardo Garrido, Universidad Aut¢noma de Madrid

  • Justin Gawrilow, Jataware

  • Michael Gelbart, The University of British Columbia

  • Pieter Gijsbers, Eindhoven University of Technology

  • Christophe Giraud-Carrier, Brigham Young University

  • Anna Goldie, Google

  • Jonathan Gordon, University of Cambridge

  • Erin Grant, University of California, Berkeley

  • Riccardo Grazzi, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

  • Daniel Hern ndez-Lobato, Universidad Aut¢noma de Madrid

  • Tin Kam Ho, IBM Watson

  • Matthew W Hoffman, University of Cambridge

  • Yanping Huang, Google

  • Frank Hutter, University of Freiburg

  • Rauf Izmailov, Applied Communication sciences

  • Haifeng Jin, Texas A&M University

  • Purushotham Kamath, SigFind

  • Balazs Kegl, LAL/CNRS,

  • Mayank Kejriwal, Information Sciences Institute

  • Udayan Khurana, IBM TJ Watson

  • Dae-Won Kim, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)

  • Bongsang Kim, LG Electronics AI Lab

  • Jungtaek Kim, Pohang University of Science and Technology

  • Pieter-Jan Kindermans, Google

  • Lars Kotthoff, University of Wyoming

  • Scott Langevin, Uncharted Software

  • Frantzeska Lavda, University of Geneva

  • Ben Letham, Facebook

  • Richard Liaw, University of California, Berkeley

  • Peter Lin, Vencore Labs

  • Marius Lindauer, University of Freiburg

  • Concha Bielza Lozoya, Universidad Polit‚cnica de Madrid

  • Rafael Gomes Mantovani, University of SÆo Paulo

  • Mark Mcleod, University of Oxford

  • Diego Mesquita, Federal University of Cear

  • Jan Metzen, Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence

  • Felix Mohr, University of Paderborn

  • Randal Olson, University of Pennsylvania

  • Michael Osborne, University of Oxford

  • Arpan Pal, Tata Consultancy services

  • Kunkun Pang, University of Edinburgh

  • Vid Podpecan, Jozef Stefan Institute

  • Ricardo Prudêncio, UFPE

  • Chetanya Puri, Innovation Labs, Tata Consultancy Services

  • Prajit Ramachandran, Google

  • Esteban Real, Google

  • Jan N. van Rijn, Leiden University

  • Stephen Roberts, University of Oxford

  • Ishan Sahu, Tata Consultancy Services

  • Brandon Schoenfeld, Brigham Young University

  • Kevin Seppi, Brigham Young University

  • Sujen Shah, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  • Zain Shah, Opendoor

  • Zeyuan Shang, Tsinghua University

  • Jasper Snoek, Harvard University

  • Carlos Soares, University of Porto

  • Mukund Sudarshan, NYU

  • Pedro Szekely, USC/Information Sciences Institute

  • Alessandra Tosi, Mind Foundry

  • Wei Wei Tu, 4Paradigm

  • Arijit Ukil, Tata Consultancy Services

  • Joaquin Vanschoren, Eindhoven University of Technology

  • Tejpal Virdi, Gunn High School

  • Ellen Vitercik, Carnegie Mellon University

  • Wenyi Wang, The University of British Columbia

  • William Welch, The University of British Columbia

  • Yang Wu, Nara Institute of Science and Technology

  • Ke-Thia Yao, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute

  • Yang Yu, Nanjing University

  • Arber Zela, University of Freiburg