Update June 2 2021: click here for my acceptance speech (in Korean only) Note: This is the first in a series of up to three posts related to the Ho-Am Prize I was awarded this year. Ho-Am Prize & Scholarship for Macademia at Aalto University Ho-Am Prize & 백규고전학술상 (Baek-Gyu Scholarly Award for Classics) Ho-Am Prize & Lim Mi-Sook Scholarship (임미숙 장학금) at KAIST Ho-Am Prize What an honour it has been to be a recipient of the Samsung Ho-Am Prize in Engineering this year (2021)! The Ho-Am Prize is one of the biggest and perhaps most recognized awards in
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Aalto University School of Science Alumnus of the Year 2020
So, this happened. My alma mater chose me as the Alumnus of the Year! As a proud alumni of Aalto University, this is my immense honour to be selected as one. See the announcement in Suomi and English. Aalto University (in particular School of Science within) and Finland just keep on giving, and I feel like I continue to receive without giving anything back. I will have to think of some way for me to pay back all that I have received from them. Kiitos paljon! Of course, the whole event was virtual, and due to the time difference, I
Giving thanks: Samsung AI Researcher of the Year Award and Donation to Mila
Note: see this announcement on the Mila’s homepage Earlier this month (Nov 2020) at the Samsung AI Forum 2020 I was one of the five recipients of the inaugural Samsung AI Researcher of the Year Award by the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT). Samsung has been supporting my research ever since I was a postdoc at Mila in Montreal, and without their support I wouldn’t have been able to support all my PhD students (NSF, i’m looking at you!) Because of this prolonged support, I had been already grateful to Samsung even before this award, and I am even
Google Faculty Award: 2020
I am happy to share the news that Cristina Savin and I have been selected to receive the Google Faculty Research Award this year in the area of computational neuroscience with the topic on <Online Meta-Learning>. See https://research.google/outreach/past-programs/faculty-research-awards/ for the list of awardees.
Best paper award at the AI for Social Good Workshop (ICML’19)
The extended abstract version of <Deep Neural Networks Improve Radiologists’ Performance in Breast Cancer Screening> has received the best paper award at the AI for Social Good Workshop co-located with ICML’19 last week in Long Beach, CA. Congratulations to the first author Nan who is a PhD student at the NYU Center for Data Science, the project lead Krzysztof who is an assistant professor at NYU Radiology, and all the other members of this project!