RISELab faculty Prof. Michael Mahoney and his postdocs Michal Derezinski and Rajiv Khanna are recipients of NeurIPS 2020 Best Paper Award for their paper “Improved Guarantees and a Multiple-Descent Curve for Column Subset Selection and the Nyström Method“. To quote the selection committee: “(…) this paper is expected to have substantial impact and give new insight into (…) kernel methods, feature selection, and the double-descent behavior of neural networks.” Congratulations to Michael, Michal and Rajiv!