Ardavan Saeedi is one of the three winners of an Outstanding Student Paper Award at the upcoming NIPS conference in Spain:
http://nips.cc/Conferences/2011/
The paper is titled `Priors over Recurrent Continuous Time Processes,' by Ardavan Saeedi and Alexandre Bouchard-Côté. To give some sense of the accomplishment, Ardavan and Alex's paper is one of a very small number chosen for oral presentation from amongst 1400 submissions!!!