Conferences

• Conference chair for the 21st Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2008) .
• Program co-chair for the 20th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2007) ; Program chairs: Daphne Koller and Yoram Singer. Conference chair: John Platt.
• Conference chair for the Eighteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-2002) ; Program chairs: Adnan Darwiche and Nir Friedman.
• Program co-chair for the Seventeenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-2001) , with Jack Breese.
• Program committee member for the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) , 2001.
• Conference chair for the Eighteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-2002) .
• Program committee member for the Learning Workshop .
• In the past, I have also served on the following program committees:
  • Computer Vision an Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
  • Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)
  • National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
  • International Joint Conference in Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
  • Conference on Uncertainty in AI (UAI)
  • International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics;
  • Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA);
  • Israeli Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ISTCS);
  • Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge (TARK);
  • International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics;
    

Journals

• Associate editor for Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR).
• Associate editor for Machine Learning (MLJ).
• Editorial board member of Journal of Machine Learning Research.

Selected Invited Plenary Talks and Tutorials

• Invited plenary talk at the International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB), Stanford, California, 2009.
• Keynote talk at the joint 17th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) and the 8th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB), Stockholm, Sweden, 2009.
• Keynote talk at the Meeting of the Microarray Gene Expression Data Society (MGED), Seattle, Washington, September 2006.
• Keynote talk titled Multi-Agent Planning in Complex Uncertain Environments given at the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), New York, New York, July 2004. The slides are available for download (powerpoint).
• Keynote talk titled Probabilistic Models of Relational Data given jointly to the Twentieth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2003) and the Ninth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2003), Washington, DC, August 2003. The slides are available for download (powerpoint).
• Tutorial at the Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) 2003, titled Probabilistic Relational Models. The slides are available in powerpoint.
• Keynote talk titled Probabilistic Models of Relational Data, given at the ACL Conference, 2002. The slides are available for browsing (without animations) or for download (powerpoint).
• Keynote talk titled Representation, Reasoning, Learning, given at IJCAI-01, as part of the IJCAI-2001 Computers and Thought Award. Click here if you want to see a static (no animations) version of the talk. (I'm sorry to say that some of the slides only show up well on advanced versions of Internet Explorer.)
• Tutorial at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2001, titled Learning Bayesian Networks, with Nir Friedman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The slides are available in pdf at 6 slides/page, or as a powerpoint show.
• Invited talk at the First International Congress of the Game Theory Society titled Structured models of complex decision problems. An improved version of the slides is available for download.
• Keynote talk at the Seventh International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2000) titled Probabilistic Relational Models: Probabilistic Meets KR.
• Invited talk at the Ninth International Workshop on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP 1999) titled Probabilistic Relational Models .
• Invited talk at Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 1998) titled "Structured Probabilistic Models: Bayesian Networks and Beyond" . The slides are available for browsing.
• Tutorial at Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 1997) titled Belief Networks and Decision-Theoretic Reasoning for AI, with Jack Breese, Microsoft Research. The slides are available for browsing, in pdf at 2 slides/page or 6 slides/page, or in powerpoint.