People
Principal Investigator
Research Fellows
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Quentin Fournier
Research Areas: Lifelong Learning, Natural Language Processing
Postdocs
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Mathieu Reymond
Research Areas: Reinforcement Learning, Model-Based RL, Multi-Agent RL, AI for scientific discovery
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Ekaterina Lobacheva
Research Areas: Optimization, Training dynamics, Generalization
PhD Students
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Gabriele Prato
Co-supervisor: Alain Tapp
Research Areas: Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models, Knowledge Consolidation -
Louis Clouâtre
Co-supervisor: Amal Zouaq
Research Areas: Natural Language Processing, sequential information -
Simon Guiroy
Co-supervisor: Chris Pal
Research Areas: Meta-Learning, Transfer Learning -
Abdelrahman Zayed
Research Areas: Natural Language Processing, Fairness
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Darshan Patil
Research Areas: Lifelong learning, Compositionality, Learning from Instruction
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Xutong Zhao
Research Areas: Reinforcement Learning, Lifelong Learning
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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
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Pranshu Malviya
Research Areas: Lifelong Learning, Causal Inference, Optimization
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Prashant Govindarajan
Research Areas: Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning for Drug Discovery, Crystal Structure Design
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Artem Zholus
Research Areas: Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning
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Jerry Huang
Research Areas: Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing
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Maryam Hashemzadeh
Research Areas: Reinforcement Learning, Lifelong Learning, Natural Language Processing
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David Heurtel-Depeiges
Research Areas: AI for Science, AI safety
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Lola Le Breton
Research Areas: Deep Learning, Optimization, Lifelong Learning
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Davide Baldelli
Co-supervisor: Amal Zouaq
Research Areas: Natural Language Processing, Interpretability
Masters Students
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Mohammad Reza Samsami
Co-supervisor: Irina Rish
Research Areas: Reinforcement Learning, Causality, Scaling Laws -
Istabrak Abbes
Research Areas: Optimization, Lifelong Learning
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Antoine Clavaud
Research Areas: Reinforcement Learning, AI for scientific discovery
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Nour Shaheen
Co-supervisor: Amine Mhedhbi
Research Areas: Optimization, Deep Learning Dynamics, Data Systems
Interns/RAs
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Kamran Chitsaz
Research Areas: Efficient Machine Learning
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Behnoush Khavari
Research Areas: Deep Learning, Memory-Augmented Neural Networks
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Ali Rahimi-Kalahroudi
Research Areas: Reinforcement Learning, Lifelong Learning
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Kowen Woo
Research Areas: Reinforcement Learning, Indigenous AI, Deep Learning
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Roshan Balaji
Co-supervisor: Nirav Bhatt
Research Areas: Computational Biology, AI for Science -
Milan Bhan
Research Areas: Interpretability, Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models
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Alex Aselstyne
Research Areas: AI for scientific discovery, Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models
Alumni and their next step
Postdocs
- 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
PhD Students
- Andreas Madsen (Aug 2020 - Nov 2024) ⸺ Founding Research Scientist at Guide Labs
Masters Students
- Megh Thakkar (Sep 2023 - Feb 2025) ⸺ Machine Learning Engineer at ServiceNow
- 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
Interns/RAs
- 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
- 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