The paper, entitled "Nearly tight sample complexity bounds for learning mixtures of Gaussians via sample compression schemes", was awarded a NeurIPS 2018 Best Paper Award, 1 of 4 awards among 4854 submissions.  It was presented at the NeurIPS 2018 conference in Montreal, a flagship machine learning conference.

Computer Science MSc student Xinyi Zhang and Professor Michiel van de Panne won the best paper award at the 11th annual conference on Motion, Interaction and Games (MIG 2018) held in Limassol, Cyprus.

Congratulations to UBC Computer Science Course Coordinator Trey Schiefelbein, recipient of a 2018 Faculty of Science Excellence in Service Award. The award recognizes staff, students and faculty whose service contributions have had a significant positive impact in achieving UBC Science's mission.