Principal Investigator

Postdocs

  • Picture of Ekaterina Lobacheva

    Research Areas: Optimization, Deep Learning

  • Picture of Saurav Jha

    Research Areas: Foundation Models, Continual and Lifelong learning

  • Picture of Anabel XL

    Co-supervisor: Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo
    Research Areas: Radio Astronomy, AI/ML for Science

PhD Students

  • Picture of Gabriele Prato

    Co-supervisor: Alain Tapp
    Research Areas: Natural Language Processing, Foundation Models, Interpretability/Explainability

  • Picture of Louis Clouâtre

    Co-supervisor: Amal Zouaq
    Research Areas: Natural Language Processing

  • Picture of Simon Guiroy

    Co-supervisor: Chris Pal
    Research Areas: Meta-Learning, Transfer Learning

  • Picture of Abdelrahman Zayed

    Research Areas: Natural Language Processing

  • Picture of Xutong Zhao

    Research Areas: Reinforcement Learning, Continual and Lifelong learning

  • Picture of Darshan Patil

    Research Areas: Continual and Lifelong learning, Reinforcement Learning, Optimization
    (Fast Tracked from Masters)

  • Picture of Hadi Nekoei

    Research Areas: Reinforcement Learning, Continual and Lifelong learning

  • Picture of Pranshu Malviya

    Research Areas: Continual and Lifelong learning, Optimization

  • Picture of Prashant Govindarajan

    Research Areas: Reinforcement Learning, AI/ML for Science

  • Picture of Artem Zholus

    Research Areas: Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning

  • Picture of Jerry Huang

    Research Areas: Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing
    (Fast Tracked from Masters)

  • Picture of Maryam Hashemzadeh

    Research Areas: Reinforcement Learning, Continual and Lifelong learning, Natural Language Processing

  • Picture of David Heurtel-Depeiges

    Research Areas: AI/ML for Science, AI Safety

  • Picture of Lola Le Breton

    Research Areas: Deep Learning, Optimization, Continual and Lifelong learning
    (Fast Tracked from Masters)

  • Picture of Davide Baldelli

    Co-supervisor: Amal Zouaq
    Research Areas: Natural Language Processing, Interpretability/Explainability

  • Picture of Nilaksh

    Co-supervisor: Caglar Gulcehre
    Research Areas: Reinforcement Learning, Embodied AI

  • Picture of Shai Pranesh

    Research Areas: AI/ML for Science, Foundation Models

  • Picture of Istabrak Abbes

    Research Areas: Optimization, Continual and Lifelong learning
    (Fast Tracked from Masters)

  • Picture of Achille Sowa

    Research Areas: Deep Learning

Masters Students

  • Picture of Nour Shaheen

    Co-supervisor: Amine Mhedhbi
    Research Areas: Optimization, Deep Learning, Data Systems

  • Picture of Diego Cerda Mardini

    Co-supervisor: Sreenath Madathil
    Research Areas: AI for Health, Interpretability/Explainability, Natural Language Processing

  • Picture of Alex Aselstyne

    Research Areas: AI for scientific discovery, Natural Language Processing, Foundation Models

  • Picture of Aidan Li

    Co-supervisor: Ross Goroshin
    Research Areas: Continual and Lifelong learning, Foundation Models

Interns/RAs

Lab Manager

Alumni and their next step

Postdocs

  • (Feb 2024 - Jan 2026) ⸺ Senior ML Engineer at Insilico Medicine
  • (Mar 2022 - Jul 2024) ⸺ Senior AI Researcher at Huawei Ireland Research Centre
  • (Jan 2023 - Jan 2024) ⸺ Research Fellow at Mila
  • (Jun 2021 - Dec 2023) ⸺ Assistant Professor at Dalhousie University

PhD Students

  • (Oct 2021 - Dec 2025) ⸺ Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto/University Health Network
  • (Aug 2020 - Nov 2024) ⸺ Founding Research Scientist at Guide Labs

Masters Students

  • (Aug 2022 - Aug 2025) ⸺ Research Engineer at Google DeepMind
  • Antoine Clavaud (Jan 2024 - Jul 2025) ⸺ Data Science Developer at Watchout
  • (Sep 2023 - Feb 2025) ⸺ Machine Learning Engineer at ServiceNow
  • (Aug 2022 - Sep 2024) ⸺ Senior Generative AI Scientist at TD Bank
  • (Jan 2022 - Apr 2024) ⸺ Machine Learning Associate at Vector Institute
  • (Sep 2021 - Jan 2024) ⸺ Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI
  • (Jan 2021 - Dec 2023) ⸺ Research Assistant at Mila
  • (Jun 2021 - Dec 2022) ⸺ Data Scientist at MoovAI
  • (Sep 2021 - Sep 2022) ⸺ PhD student at University of Montreal
  • Charan Reddy (Jul 2020 - Jul 2022) ⸺ Founder at Stealth Startup
  • (Jan 2021 - Dec 2021) ⸺ PhD student at Polytechnique Montreal
  • (Jan 2020 - Jul 2021) ⸺ ML Research Engineer at Samsung AI Center Toronto
  • (Jan 2020 - Jul 2021) ⸺ PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University
  • (Jan 2020 - Dec 2020) ⸺ PhD student at University of Montreal

Interns/RAs

  • (May 2025 - Nov 2025) ⸺ Back to IIT Madras
  • (Jun 2025 - Oct 2025) ⸺ Back to Sorbonne University
  • (Jul 2025 - Sep 2025) ⸺ Back to Ecole Nationale des Sciences de l'Informatique (ENSI), Tunisia
  • (Jun 2025 - Aug 2025) ⸺ Back to University of Tunis El Manar - Higher Institue of Computer Science
  • (May 2025 - Aug 2025) ⸺ Back to University of Alberta
  • Alex Aselstyne (Jun 2025 - Aug 2025) ⸺ Masters student at Polytechnique Montreal
  • (Jan 2024 - Jul 2025) ⸺ AI Research Scientist at DRW
  • (Sep 2022 - Dec 2023) ⸺ PhD student at University of Montreal
  • Annabel Adeyeri (Jun 2023 - Aug 2023) ⸺ Back to Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • (Jun 2022 - Oct 2022) ⸺ Data Governance Manager at Sofrecom Tunisie
  • (Sep 2021 - Sep 2022) ⸺ PhD student at Polytechnique Montreal
  • (May 2022 - Aug 2022) ⸺ Back to IIT Kharagpur
  • (May 2022 - Aug 2022) ⸺ Back to IIT Kharagpur
  • (Jan 2020 - Dec 2021) ⸺ PhD student at University of Montreal
  • (May 2021 - Dec 2021) ⸺ Back to University of Toronto
  • (May 2021 - Dec 2021) ⸺ Back to Polytechnique Montreal
  • (May 2021 - Aug 2021) ⸺ Back to IIIT Hyderabad
  • (Jun 2021 - Aug 2021) ⸺ Back to Mission San Jose High School
  • (May 2021 - Aug 2021) ⸺ Back to University of Alberta
  • (Sep 2020 - Jul 2021) ⸺ PhD student at Michigan State University
  • (Jun 2020 - May 2021) ⸺ Masters at McGill Univesity
  • (Jun 2020 - Dec 2020) ⸺ Back to McGill University
  • Evan Racah (Jan 2020 - Jun 2020) ⸺ Machine Learning Engineer at Waymo