Four Mila student awarded the Professor Cho Diversity Scholarship

The names of the 4 students who received the Professor Cho Diversity Scholarship
On December 5, four Mila students were awarded the Professor Cho Diversity scholarship, which supports Mila students from under-represented regions.
RecipientsSupervisorCurrent Program

Tianyue

Zhang

Simon Lacoste-Julien 

(Core Academic member)

PhD

Ines

Arous

Jackie Cheung 

(Core Academic member)

Postdoctoral fellowship

Anwesha

Bhattacharya

Danilo Bzdok 

(Associate Academic member)

PhD

Sahar

Dastani

Oghani

Samira Ebrahimi Kahou

(Associate Academic member)

PhD

Promoting underrepresented groups in AI research 

In November 2020, Professor Kyunghyun Cho, a Mila postdoctoral fellow alumnus, donated $35,000 to the institute to promote equity and diversity by awarding scholarships to incoming female

PhD students and postdoctoral fellows from designated underrepresented regions within the field of AI.

Prof. Cho recognizes the difficulty and stress involved for international students to relocate and pursue their academic dreams. This difficulty only increases for students who belong to underrepresented groups in AI due to their gender or nationality.

Through these awards, Prof. Cho aims to give incoming students some financial relief by providing them with additional funding upon their arrival to Montreal.

Mila is committed to supporting equity, diversity and inclusion in its research endeavors.