Joelle Pineau

Associate Professor, School of Computer Science; Co-director, Reasoning and Learning Lab McGill University

  • Montreal QC

Machine Learning Researcher; Professor of Computer Science and William Dawson Scholar at McGill University; Senior Fellow at CIFAR

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Biography

Joelle Pineau is a William Dawson Scholar and Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at McGill University in Montreal. She holds a PhD and MSc from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.A.Sc. from the University of Waterloo. Her research focuses on the development and analysis of algorithms for Artificial Intelligence, in particular in machine learning and reinforcement learning, with application of these methods to problems in health-care and robotics. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Machine Learning Research and the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. She was the Program Chair (2012) and General Chair (2015) of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), and is the President-Elect of the International Machine Learning Society.

Industry Expertise

Computer Software
Health Care - Services
Research
Education/Learning

Areas of Expertise

Reinforcement learning and probabilistic inference
Deep Learning
Natural Language Processing
Robotics
Adaptive treatment design
Machine Learning
Planning, learning, and decision making

Accomplishments

Member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. The Royal Society of Canada

2016-01-01

The College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists is Canada’s first national system of multidisciplinary recognition for the emerging generation of Canadian intellectual leadership. It will comprise a fourth entity (along with the current three Academies) within the Royal Society of Canada.

Senior Fellow at CIFAR program in Learning in Machines & Brains

2016-01-01

CIFAR fellows take on tough questions that span disciplines. The answers they require can only be reached by international, interdisciplinary teams working together over a sustained period of time. Our 14 programs tackle questions across four broad areas: improving human health, creating successful societies, using technology to make life better, and sustaining life on Earth.

William Dawson Scholar at McGill University

2015-04-09

The William Dawson Scholar award recognizes a scholar developing into an outstanding and original researcher of world-class caliber who is poised to become a leader in his or her field, similar to that of a CRC Tier 2 chair holder.

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Education

Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Ph.D

Robotics/Machine Learning

2004

Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

M.Sc

Robotics/Machine Learning

2001

University of Waterloo

B.A.Sc

Systems Design Engineering

1998

Affiliations

  • Member of the Centre for Intelligent Machines (CIM) at McGill

Languages

  • English
  • French

Media Appearances

Montréal: star de l'intelligence artificielle

La Presse  online

2017-02-02

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Microsoft to grow Monteral AI ecosystem

McGill Reporter  online

2017-01-18

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Comment une machine devient-elle intelligente?

Le Devoir  online

2017-01-14

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Research Grants

Google Focused Research Award

Google

2016-11-01

2017-2020

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National Centre of Excellence (AGE-WELL)

National Centre of Excellence

2015-01-01

2015-2020

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NSERC / CIHR Collaborative Health Research Projects

NSERC / CIHR

2015-01-01

2015-2018

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