With more than 20 years of experience in deep learning, Joumana Ghosn is Director of the Applied Research Team at Mila. In 2002, she obtained a doctorate in computer science (machine learning) from the Université de Montréal, under the supervision of Professor Yoshua Bengio. She then developed an expertise in natural language understanding, particularly at Nuance Communications, where she worked with a team of deep learning researchers dedicated to the creation of virtual assistants and to computer-assisted clinical documentation improvement.