My name is Behzad Tabibian, I am a PhD student at Max Planck Institute, Emperical inference department with Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schölkopf and Dr. Manuel Gomez Rodriguez. I studied Computer Science at Edinburgh University and graduated in June of 2012 and completed my masters at university of Pittsburgh. My main research interests are Machine Learning, Statistics and Inference. I primarily apply Machine Learning on (Social) Networks problems.

Previously I was interested in robotics and software engineering. In my free time I enjoy talking about books, particularly history, political philosophy and philosophy of science.

Recent News

Design and Analysis of the NIPS 2016 Review Process

August 30, 2017

In this report, we analyze several aspects of the data collected during the review process, including an experiment investigating the efficacy of collecting ordinal rankings from reviewers (vs. usual scores aka cardinal rankings). Our goal is to check the soundness of the review process we implemented and, in going so, provide insights that may be useful in the design of the review process of subsequent conferences. We introduce a number of metrics that could be used for monitoring improvements when new ideas are introduced.

2017 Machine Learning Summer School

June 19, 2017

I am part of organization team for MLSS2017. The MLSS is a renowned venue for graduate students, researchers, and professionals. It offers an opportunity to learn about fundamental and advanced aspects of machine learning, data analysis and inference, from intellectual leaders of the field.

Applied ML Days @ EPFL

January 24, 2017

I will be attending ML Days conference at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. I will also present a poster on our latest project on Information Reliability and Source Trustworthiness.

Distilling Information Reliability and Source Trustworthiness from Digital Traces

December 20, 2016

Our paper on Information Reliability and Source Trustworthiness has been accepted at WWW 2017, preprint available on Arxiv. Code and data will be published soon.

Therefore the seeker after the truth is not one who studies the writings of the ancients and, following his natural disposition, puts his trust on them, but rather the one who suspects his faith in them and questions what he gathers from them, the one who submits to argument and demonstration, and not to the sayings of a human being whose nature is fraught with all kinds of imperfection and deficiency.
Thus the duty of man who investigates the writings of scientists, if learning the truth is his goal, is to make himself an enemy of all that he reads, and, applying his mind to the core and margins of its content, attack it from every side.
He should also suspect himself as he performs his critical examination of it, so that he may avoid falling into either prejudice or leniency.
Ibn al Haytham 965-1040

Recent Posts

Hacking into Evolutionary Dynamics

August 10, 2017

This notebook contains some implementations of algorithms and ideas discussed in "Evolutionary Dynamics" by M. Novak. For better undrestanding of the code and equtions please consult first five chapters of the book.

Tutorial on Latent Dirichlet Allocation

July 01, 2017

I gave a tutorial on Latent Dirichlet Allocation as part of PhD tutorials at our department. Here you can find the contents I covered in this talk.