Partnerships

Professors Blake Richards (McGill/Mila) and Guillaume Lajoie (UdeM/Mila) are working closely with BIOS Health, a biomedical company whose goal is to optimize, automate, and personalize the treatment of chronic heart conditions through neural interfaces. Partners since 2019, BIOS and Mila researchers are bringing together their brightest minds to develop a closed-loop neuromodulation system using AI.

By leveraging state-of-the-art meta-learning, BrainBox AI and David Rolnick (McGill/Mila) are working together to reduce the amount of data needed to train the company's globally deployed AI algorithms. Specifically, this collaboration will result in the development of a neural network that is “conscious” of the components of a new building and capable of deploying its intelligence in similar buildings. These efforts will enable BrainBox AI to implement an accelerated learning process to benefit AI-built environments.

Professor Christopher Pal (Polytechnique/Mila) is working with Algolux to develop a car simulator to accelerate research on planning and decision-making in autonomous driving. Their recent collaboration produced latent variable sequential set transformers that predict the future evolution of real-world multi-agent scenarios. Equipped with these models, the simulator can generate new plausible scenarios of interactions between multiple agents. The result of this collaboration will facilitate research on reinforcement learning and planning algorithms for self-driving cars or sidewalk robots.