People

Principal Investigator

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  Sarath Chandar

Postdocs

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  Janarthanan Rajendran

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

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  Gonçalo Mordido

  Co-supervisor: François Leduc-Primeau
  Research Areas: Algorithm-hardware co-design, Energy-efficient neural networks

PhD Students

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  Gabriele Prato

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

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  Louis Clouâtre

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

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  Simon Guiroy

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

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  Doriane Olewicki

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

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  Andreas Madsen

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

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  Abdelrahman Zayed

  Research Areas: Natural language processing, Fairness, Causality

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  Xutong Zhao

  Research Areas: Reinforcement Learning, Lifelong Learning

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  Jarrid Rector-Brooks

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

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  Darshan Patil

  Research Areas: Lifelong learning, Compositionality, Learning from Instruction

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  Naga Karthik

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

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  Hadi Nekoei

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

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  Maziar Sargordi

  Co-supervisor: Amal Zouaq
  Research Areas: NLP, Reinforcement Learning

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  Pranshu Malviya

  Research Areas: Lifelong Learning, Causal Inference, Optimization

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  Arjun Vaithilingam Sudhakar

  Research Areas: NLP, Reinforcement Learning

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  Prashant Govindarajan

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

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  Artem Zholus

  Research Areas: NLP, Reinforcement Learning

Masters Students

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  Ali Rahimi-Kalahroudi

  Research Areas: Deep Reinforcement Learning, Lifelong Learning

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  Daphné Lafleur

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

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  Kshitij Gupta

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

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  Jerry Huang

  Research Areas: NLP, Deep Learning

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  Mohammad Reza Samsami

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

Interns/RAs

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  Istabrak Abbes

  Research Areas: NLP, Optimization

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  Maryam Hashemzadeh

  Research Areas: Reinforcement Learning, Lifelong Learning, Natural Language Understanding

Alumni and their next step

Masters Students

• Charan Reddy (Jul 2020 - Jul 2022) -- Founder at Stealth Startup
• Pranshu Malviya (Jan 2021 - Dec 2021) -- PhD student at Polytechnique Montreal
• 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

Interns/RAs

• Arjun Vaithilingam Sudhakar (Sep 2021 - Sep 2022) -- PhD student at Polytechnique Montreal
• Sriyash Poddar (May 2022 - Aug 2022) -- Back to IIT Kharagpur
• Rahul Choudhary (May 2022 - Aug 2022) -- Back to IIT Kharagpur
• Jerry Huang (Apr 2022 - Aug 2022) -- Masters at University of Montreal
• 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