Portrait of Simon Lacoste-Julien

Simon Lacoste-Julien

Core Academic Member
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Associate Scientific Director, Mila, Associate Professor, Université de Montréal, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research
Vice President and Lab Director, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) AI Lab, Montréal
Research Topics
Causality
Computer Vision
Deep Learning
Generative Models
Machine Learning Theory
Natural Language Processing
Optimization
Probabilistic Models

Biography

Simon Lacoste-Julien is an associate professor at Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute and in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research (DIRO) at Université de Montréal. He is also a Canada CIFAR AI Chair and heads (part time) the SAIT AI Lab Montréal.

Lacoste-Julien‘s research interests are machine learning and applied mathematics, along with their applications to computer vision and natural language processing. He completed a BSc in mathematics, physics and computer science at McGill University, a PhD in computer science at UC Berkeley and a postdoc at the University of Cambridge.

After spending several years as a researcher at INRIA and the École normale supérieure in Paris, he returned to his home city of Montréal in 2016 to answer Yoshua Bengio’s call to help grow the Montréal AI ecosystem.

Current Students

Independent visiting researcher - Samsung SAIT
Independent visiting researcher - Samsung SAIT
PhD - Université de Montréal
Collaborating Alumni - Université de Montréal
Principal supervisor :
Independent visiting researcher - Samsung
Independent visiting researcher - Samsung SAIT
Collaborating Alumni - Université de Montréal
PhD - Université de Montréal
Independent visiting researcher - Samsung SAIT
Collaborating researcher - Université de Montréal
Independent visiting researcher - Samsung SAIT
PhD - Université de Montréal
Independent visiting researcher - Université de Montréal
Independent visiting researcher - Université de Montréal
PhD - Université de Montréal
Master's Research - Université de Montréal
PhD - Université de Montréal
PhD - Université de Montréal
PhD - Université de Montréal
Co-supervisor :
Independent visiting researcher - Samsung SAIT
Collaborating Alumni - Université de Montréal
PhD - Université de Montréal
Independent visiting researcher - Samsung SAIT