Frank Hutter is a Full Professor for Machine Learning at the Computer Science Department of the University of Freiburg
(Germany), as well as Chief Expert AutoML at the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence. Frank holds a PhD from the
University of British Columbia (UBC, 2009) and a Diplom (eq. MSc) from TU Darmstadt (2004). He received the 2010 CAIAC
doctoral dissertation award for the best thesis in AI in Canada, and with his coauthors, several best paper awards and prizes
in international competitions on machine learning, SAT solving, and AI planning. He is the recipient of a 2013 Emmy Noether
Fellowship, a 2016 ERC Starting Grant, a 2018 Google Faculty Research Award, a 2020 ERC PoC Award, and he is a Fellow of
ELLIS. Frank‘s recent research focuses on automated machine learning (AutoML), where he co-organized the ICML workshop
series on AutoML every year since its inception in 2014, co-authored the prominent AutoML tools Auto-WEKA, Auto-sklearn,
and Auto-PyTorch, won the first two AutoML challenges with his team, co-authored the first book on AutoML, worked
extensively on efficient hyperparameter optimization and neural architecture search, and gave a NeurIPS 2018 tutorial
with over 3000 attendees.
Baopu Li obtained his Ph.D degree in the field of computer vision and robotics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong
in 2008. After that, he was in the academic field for another 8 years. Since 2016, he changed his career path to industry in
the USA, and now he is a director at Oracle Cloud. His major research and development interests include Auto machine
learning (ML), low-level image processing, video understanding and so on together with their applications on cloud and
edge devices.
