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Principal Investigator

Quentin Fournier

Research Areas: Lifelong Learning, Natural Language Processing

Mathieu Reymond

Research Areas: Reinforcement learning, model-based RL, multi-agent RL, AI for scientific discovery

Gabriele Prato

Co-supervisor: Alain Tapp
Research Areas: NLP, Large Language Models, Knowledge Consolidation
Louis Clouâtre

Co-supervisor: Amal Zouaq
Research Areas: NLP, sequential information
Simon Guiroy

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

Research Areas: Natural language processing, Fairness, Causality
Darshan Patil

Research Areas: Lifelong learning, Compositionality, Learning from Instruction
Xutong Zhao

Research Areas: Reinforcement Learning, Lifelong Learning
Naga Karthik Enamundram

Co-supervisor: Julien Cohen-Adad
Research Areas: Continual Learning in Medical Imaging, Bayesian Uncertainty Estimation, Biomedical Image Processing
Hadi Nekoei

Research Areas: Multi-agent RL, Model-based RL, Lifelong Learning, Generalization in RL
Pranshu Malviya

Research Areas: Lifelong Learning, Causal Inference, Optimization
Prashant Govindarajan

Research Areas: Reinforcement Learning, ML for drug discovery, Crystal Structure Design
Artem Zholus

Research Areas: NLP, Reinforcement Learning
Jerry Huang

Research Areas: Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing
Maryam Hashemzadeh

Research Areas: Reinforcement Learning, Lifelong Learning, Natural Language Understanding
David Heurtel-Depeiges

Research Areas: AI for Science, AI safety
Lola Le Breton

Research Areas: Deep learning, Optimization, Lifelong Learning

Mohammad Reza Samsami

Co-supervisor: Irina Rish
Research Areas: Reinforcement Learning, Causality, Scaling Laws
Megh Thakkar

Research Areas: Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models
Istabrak Abbes

Research Areas: Optimization, Lifelong Learning
Antoine Clavaud

Research Areas: Reinforcement Learning, AI for scientific discovery

Kamran Chitsaz

Research Areas: Efficient ML
Behnoush Khavari

Research Areas: Deep Learning, Memory-Augmented Neural Networks
Ali Rahimi-Kalahroudi

Research Areas: Deep Reinforcement Learning, Lifelong Learning

Gonçalo Mordido (Mar 2022 - Jul 2024) ⸺ Senior AI Researcher at Huawei Ireland Research Centre.
Quentin Fournier (Jan 2023 - Jan 2024) ⸺ Research Fellow at Mila.
Janarthanan Rajendran (Jun 2021 - Dec 2023) ⸺ Assistant Professor at Dalhousie University

Andreas Madsen (Aug 2020 - Nov 2024) ⸺ Founding Research Scientist at Guide Labs

Lola Le Breton (Aug 2023 - Sep 2024) ⸺ Fast-track to Ph.D.
Arjun Vaithilingam Sudhakar (Aug 2022 - Sep 2024) ⸺ Senior Generative AI Scientist at TD Bank
Maziar Sargordi (Jan 2022 - Apr 2024) ⸺
Kshitij Gupta (Sep 2021 - Jan 2024) ⸺ Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI
Ali Rahimi-Kalahroudi (Jan 2021 - Dec 2023) ⸺ Research Assistant at Mila
Jerry Huang (Sep 2022 - Sep 2023) ⸺ Fast-track to Ph.D.
Daphné Lafleur (Jun 2021 - Dec 2022) ⸺ Data Scientist at MoovAI
Jarrid Rector-Brooks (Sep 2021 - Sep 2022) ⸺ Fast-track to Ph.D.
Charan Reddy (Jul 2020 - Jul 2022) ⸺ Founder at Stealth Startup
Pranshu Malviya (Jan 2021 - Dec 2021) ⸺ PhD student at Polytechnique Montreal
Darshan Patil (Sep 2020 - Sep 2021) ⸺ Fast-track to Ph.D.
Mohamed Abdelsalam (Jan 2020 - Jul 2021) ⸺ ML Research Engineer at Samsung AI Center Toronto
Akilesh Badrinaaraayanan (Jan 2020 - Jul 2021) ⸺ PhD student at CMU
Mojtaba Faramarzi (Jan 2020 - Dec 2020) ⸺ PhD student at University of Montreal

Maryam Hashemzadeh (Sep 2022 - Dec 2023) ⸺ PhD student at University of Montreal
Annabel Adeyeri (Jun 2023 - Aug 2023) ⸺ Back to MIT
Istabrak Abbes (Jun 2022 - Oct 2022) ⸺ Data Governance Manager at Sofrecom Tunisie
Jerry Huang (May 2022 - Sep 2022) ⸺ Masters at University of Montreal
Arjun Vaithilingam Sudhakar (Sep 2021 - Sep 2022) ⸺ PhD student at Polytechnique Montreal
Rahul Choudhary (May 2022 - Aug 2022) ⸺ Back to IIT Kharagpur
Sriyash Poddar (May 2022 - Aug 2022) ⸺ Back to IIT Kharagpur
Hadi Nekoei (Jan 2020 - Dec 2021) ⸺ PhD student at University of Montreal
Shabnam Haghzare (May 2021 - Dec 2021) ⸺ Back to University of Toronto
Maziar Sargordi (May 2021 - Dec 2021) ⸺ Back to Polytechnique Montreal
Saujas Vaduguru (May 2021 - Aug 2021) ⸺ Back to IIIT Hyderabad.
Vignesh Rangarajan (Jun 2021 - Aug 2021) ⸺ Back to Mission San Jose High School.
Yi Wan (May 2021 - Aug 2021) ⸺ Back to University of Alberta
Paul-Aymeric McRae (Sep 2020 - Jul 2021) ⸺ PhD student at Michigan State University
Rodrigo Chavez Zavaleta (Jun 2020 - May 2021) ⸺ Masters at McGill Univesity
Sam Finestone (Jun 2020 - Dec 2020) ⸺ Back to McGill University
Evan Racah (Jan 2020 - Jun 2020) ⸺ Waymo