People

Principal Investigator

Janarthanan Rajendran

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

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

Gabriele Prato

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

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: Natural language processing, Fairness, Causality
Xutong Zhao

Research Areas: Reinforcement Learning, Lifelong Learning
Darshan Patil

Research Areas: Lifelong learning, Compositionality, Learning from Instruction
Jarrid Rector-Brooks

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

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

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

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

Research Areas: NLP, Reinforcement Learning

Ali Rahimi-Kalahroudi

Research Areas: Deep Reinforcement Learning, Lifelong Learning
Daphné Lafleur

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

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

Research Areas: NLP, Deep Learning
Mohammad Reza Samsami

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

Istabrak Abbes

Research Areas: NLP, Optimization
Maryam Hashemzadeh

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

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

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