Alexandru Niculescu-Mizil is researcher at NEC Laboratories America. Before joining NEC, he was a Herman Goldstine postdoctoral fellow at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2008 under the supervision of Rich Caruana, a Masters of Science degree in Computer Science from Cornell University and a Magna Cum Laude Bachelors degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from University of Bucharest. His research interests are in machine learning and data mining, particularly in inductive transfer, graphical model structure learning, probability estimation, empirical evaluations, ensemble methods and on-line learning. He received an ICML Distinguished Student Paper Award in 2005 for his work on probability estimation, and a COLT Best Student in 2008 paper award for his work on on-line learning. In 2009, he led the IBM Research team that won the KDDCUP competition.