Conferences

• 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:
  • Senior Program Committee, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI): 1999, 2000;
  • Program Committee, International Joint Conference in Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 1999.
  • Area Chair, Conference on Uncertainty in AI (UAI) 2000;
  • Program Committee, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI): 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998;
  • Program Committee, Conference on Uncertainty in AI (UAI): 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999;
  • Program Commitee International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 1999;
  • Program Committee Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) 1999;
  • Program Committee Israeli Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ISTCS) 1997;
  • Program Commitee Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge (TARK) 1996;
  • International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics 1996;
    

Journals

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

Selected Invited Talks and Tutorials

• Invited 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).
• Invited 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.
• Invited 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.
• Invited 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.