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			Tony Jebara is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University and co-founder of Sense Networks. He directs the Columbia Machine Learning Laboratory whose research intersects computer science and statistics to develop new frameworks for learning from data with applications in vision, networks, spatio-temporal data, and text. Jebara has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers in conferences and journals including NIPS, ICML, UAI, COLT, JMLR, CVPR, ICCV, and AISTAT. He is the author of the book Machine Learning: Discriminative and Generative and co-inventor on multiple patents in vision, learning and spatio-temporal modeling. In 2004, Jebara was the recipient of the Career award from the National Science Foundation. His work was recognized with a best paper award at the 26th International Conference on Machine Learning, a best student paper award at the 20th International Conference on Machine Learning as well as an honorable mention from the Pattern Recognition Society in 2000. Jebara's research has been featured on television (ABC, BBC, New York One, TechTV, etc.) as well as in the popular press (New York Times, Slash Dot, Wired, Businessweek, IEEE Spectrum, etc.). He obtained his PhD in 2002 from MIT. Recently, Esquire magazine named him one of their Best and Brightest of 2008. Jebara's lab is supported in part by the NSF, CIA, NSA, DHS, and ONR. Awards: Best Paper Award, Intl. Conf. on Machine Learning, 2009 Esquire Magazine's Best and Brightest, 2008 KDD Challenge ER1B Best Performer, 2005 National Science Foundation Career Award, 2004 Best Student Paper Award, Intl. Conf. on Machine Learning, 2003 Pattern Recognition Society Annual Award, Honorable Mention, 2001 Detailed C.V. as a PDF file.