People

Principal Investigator

Janarthanan Rajendran

Co-supervisor: Doina Precup
Research Areas: Reinforcement Learning, Lifelong Learning, Meta-Learning, Dialog Systems

Gabriele Prato

Co-supervisor: Alain Tapp
Research Areas: Out-of-Distribution Generalization
Louis Clouatre

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

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

Co-supervisor: Siva Reddy
Research Areas: Interpretability in NLP
Doriane Olewicki

Co-supervisor: Bram Adams
Research Areas: Continual Learning for Software Engineering, Continuous Integration
Abdelrahman Zayed

Research Areas: Applying constraints to neural networks, Recurrent neural networks
Mojtaba Faramarzi

Research Areas: Continual learning focused on replay and regularization methods, Data-dependent regularization for deep learning
Xutong Zhao

Research Areas: Reinforcement Learning, Lifelong Learning
Darshan Patil

Research Areas: Lifelong learning, Compositionality, Learning from Instruction
Naga Karthik

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
Maziar Sargordi

Research Areas: Machine Learning, Lifelong Learning
Pranshu Malviya

Research Areas: Lifelong Learning, Causal Inference, Optimization

Charan Reddy

Research Areas: Modular Continual Learning, Multi Domain Meta Learning, Fairness in Deep Learning, Optimization
Ali Rahimi-Kalahroudi

Research Areas: Deep Reinforcement Learning, Lifelong Learning
Daphné Lafleur

Co-supervisor: Gilles Pesant
Research Areas: Algorithmic composition, Constraint programming, Machine learning
Jarrid Rector-Brooks

Co-supervisor: Yoshua Bengio
Research Areas: ML for drug discovery, ML for social good, Reinforcement Learning, Optimization
Kshitij Gupta

Co-supervisor: Irina Rish
Research Areas: Model-based RL, Planning, Lifelong Learning

Yi Wan

Research Areas: Reinforcement Learning
Shabnam Haghzare

Research Areas: Human-Automation Interaction, Automated Driving, Older Adults, Intelligent Vehicles, Artificial Intelligence

Pranshu Malviya (Jan 2021 - Dec 2021) -- PhD student at Polytechnique Montreal
Mohamed Ashraf 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

Hadi Nekoei (Jan 2020 - Dec 2021) -- PhD student at University of Montreal
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.
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