{"id":437,"date":"2015-01-24T17:22:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T21:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/?p=437"},"modified":"2017-08-07T18:08:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T22:08:50","slug":"doctoral-advisee-weicong-ding-wins-best-student-paper-award-in-2014-nips-workshop-on-rank-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/2015\/01\/24\/doctoral-advisee-weicong-ding-wins-best-student-paper-award-in-2014-nips-workshop-on-rank-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Weicong Ding wins best paper award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Ishwar&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/dingwc\/\" target=\"_blank\">PhD student Weicong Ding<\/a> won the best student paper award (sponsored by Google) in the 13 December <a href=\"http:\/\/events.csa.iisc.ernet.in\/NIPS-14-rankingsws\/\" target=\"_blank\">2014 NIPS Workshop on Analysis of Rank Data: Confluence of Social Choice, Operations Research,\u00a0and Machine Learning<\/a>, held in Montreal, Canada, for paper titled\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1412.3705\" target=\"_blank\">A Topic Modeling Approach to Rank Aggregation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Ishwar&#8217;s PhD student Weicong Ding won the best student paper award (sponsored by Google) in the 13 December 2014 NIPS Workshop on Analysis of Rank Data: Confluence of Social Choice, Operations Research,\u00a0and Machine Learning, held in Montreal, Canada, for paper titled\u00a0A Topic Modeling Approach to Rank Aggregation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2606,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2606"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}