Portrait of Sarath Chandar

Sarath Chandar

Core Academic Member
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Assistant Professor, Polytechnique Montréal, Department of Computer Engineering and Software Engineering
Adjunct Professor, Université de Montréal, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Research Topics
AI Alignment
Deep Learning
Explainable AI (XAI)
Foundation Models
Interpretability
Large Language Models (LLM)
Lifelong Learning
Medical Machine Learning
Multi-Agent Systems
Natural Language Processing
Online Learning
Optimization
Recurrent Neural Networks
Reinforcement Learning
Representation Learning
Transfer Learning
Trustworthy AI

Biography

Sarath Chandar is an associate professor at Polytechnique Montreal's Department of Computer and Software Engineering, where he leads the Chandar Research Lab. He is also a Core Academic Member at Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute and holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair and the Canada Research Chair in Lifelong Machine Learning.

Chandar’s research interests include lifelong learning, deep learning, optimization, reinforcement learning and natural language processing. To promote research in lifelong learning, Chandar created the Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs) in 2022, for which he served as program chair in 2022 and 2023.

He has a PhD from Université de Montréal and an MSc (By Research) from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

Current Students

Master's Research - Université de Montréal
Master's Research - Polytechnique Montréal
PhD - Polytechnique Montréal
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PhD - Université de Montréal
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Collaborating researcher - Université de Montréal
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PhD - Université de Montréal
Independent visiting researcher - NA
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PhD - Polytechnique Montréal
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PhD - Polytechnique Montréal
Postdoctorate - Polytechnique Montréal
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PhD - Université de Montréal
PhD - Université de Montréal
PhD - Université de Montréal
Master's Research - Université de Montréal
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Independent visiting researcher
Master's Research - Université de Montréal
PhD - Polytechnique Montréal
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Master's Research - Université de Montréal
PhD - Polytechnique Montréal
PhD - McGill University
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PhD - Polytechnique Montréal
PhD - Polytechnique Montréal