Last updated August 2018.
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. Computer Science, @McGill University, 1991
- M.Sc. Computer Science, @ McGill University, 1988
PROFESSIONAL WORK
- Full professor 2002- @(DIRO, UdeM)
- Associate professor 1997-2002 @(DIRO, UdeM)
- Assistant professor 1993-1997 @(DIRO, UdeM)
- Researcher @ AT&T Bell Labs, 1992-93 (and continued collaboration until 1997), with Yann Le Cun, Vladmir Vapnik, Larry Jackel, Leon Bottou, Patrick Haffner, Patrice Simard, Isabelle Guyon, and John Denker.
- Postdoc @ MIT (with Mike Jordan), 1991-92
TITLES AND DISTINCTIONS
- Full Professor, University of Montreal, department of computer science and operations research (DIRO)
- Founder and scientific director of Mila, scientific director of IVADO
- Canada Research Chair on Statistical Learning Algorithms since 2000
- Former NSERC–Ubisoft Industrial Research Chair
- Member of the NIPS Foundation board
- Marie-Victorin Prize 2017, Radio-Canada Scientist of the Year 2017, Urgel Archambault Prize 2009
- Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) and co-director of its proram on Learning in Machines and Brains
PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT
- Co-creator and General Chair for ICLR since 2013
- General Chair for NIPS‘2009
- Program Chair for NIPS‘2008
- Co-organizer of the Learning Workshop (a.k.a. as the “Snowbird Workshop” since it was often held there)since 1998 with Yann LeCun
- Action Editor, Journal of Machine Learning Research, and Associate Editor, Neural Computation
- Editor, Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning
- Previously associate editor, Machine Learning Journal, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
- Ex-Member of the board of the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques
- Co-founder of Element AI