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Students

Current Students & Postdocs (* = close to finishing)

Postdoc	Alexander Tong*, Luca Scimeca, Danyal Rehman, Oliver Richardson
Ph.D.	Jarrid Rector-Brooks, Kanika Madan, Rim Assouel, Paul François Bertin, Tristan Deleu, Akram Erraqabi, Leo Feng, Tianyu Zhang, Edward Hu, Alexandra Volokhova, Oussama Boussif, Léna Néhale Ezzine, Mohsin Hasan, Xiaoyin Chen, Moksh Jain
M.Sc.	Dragos Secrieru, Vedant Kandarp Shah*

Co-supervised students

Postdoc	Donna Vakalis*
Ph.D.	Cristian Dragos Manta, Camille Rochefort-Boulanger, Harry Zhao, Melisande Teng, Zhen Liu, Nasim Rahaman, Dinghuai Zhang, Eric Elmoznino, Xi (Nicole) Zhang, Jean-Pierre Falet, Aniket Didolkar, Sarthak Mittal
M.Sc.	Thomas Jiralerspong

Former (graduated)

Postdoc	Alex Hernández Garcia (2024), Zichao Yan (2024), Nikolay Malkin (2024), Michal Korzarski (2024), Ling Pan (2023), Hae Beom Lee (2023), Xu Ji (2023), Kartik Ahuja (2023), Jason Hartford (2022), Dianbo Liu (2022), Jie Fu (2022), Alexandra Vorobyova Luccioni (2021), Mirco Ravanelli (2021), Damjan Kalajdzievski (2021), Travis Lacroix (2021), Ghouthi Boukli Hacene (2021), Qicheng Lao (2021), Jonathan Binas (2021), Simon Verret (2020), Min Lin (2020), Maximilian Puelma Touzel (2020), Ahmad Pesaranghader (2020), Joseph Cohen (2020), Margaux Luck (2020), Jason Jo (2020), Kris Sankaran (2020), Karthik Mukkavilli (2020), Devansh Arpit (2019), Devon Hjelm (2018), Simon Blackburn (2018), Adriana Romero Soriano (2017), Philemon Brakel (2017), Nicolas Ballas (2017), Sungjin Ahn (2016), Asja Fischer (2016), Jorg Bornschein (2015), Kyung-Hyun Cho (2015), Jyri Kivinen (2014), Heng Luo (2013), Aaron Courville (2011), Antoine Bordes (2011), Joseph Turian (2010), Michael Mendel (2010), Jerome Louradour (2008), Marina Sokolova (2007), Pierre-Jean L’Heureux (2006), Christopher Kermorvant (2005), Xiangdong Wang (2003), Gilles Caporossi (2002), Ichiro Takeuchi (2001), Takafumi Kanamori (2001), Claude Nadeau (2000), Stephen Langdell (2000), Holger Schwenk (1997), Samy Bengio (1996).
Co-supervised Postdoc	Chen Sun (2024), Dan Assouline (2024), Stefano Massaroli (2024)
Ph.D.	Sherjil Ozair (2024), Victor Schmidt (2024), Salem Lahlou (2023), Ruixiang Zhang (2023), Valentin Thomas (2022), Rosemary Nan Ke (2022), Giancarlo Kerg (2022), Anirudh Goyal (2022), Alex Lamb (2022), Tong Che (2022), Mohammad Pezeshki (2022), Rémi Le Priol (2022), Taesup Kim (2021), Sandeep Subramanian (2021), Antoine Prouvost (2021), Tristan Sylvain (2021), Benjamin Scellier (2021), Jessica Thompson (2020), Chinnadurai Sankar (2020), Dmitriy Serdyuk (2020), Dzmitry Bahdanau (2020), Sarath Chandar Anbil Parthipan (2019), Zhouhan Lin (2019), Julian Vlad Serban (2019), Saizheng Zhang (2019), Yaroslav Ganin (2019), Guillaume Alain (2019), Bart Merrienboer (2019), Vincent Dumoulin (2018), Laurent Dinh (2018), Junyoung Chung (2018), Caglar Gulcehre (2018), David Warde-Farley (2017), Li Yao (2017), Mehdi Mirza (2017), Yann Dauphin (2015), Xavier Glorot (2015), Razvan Pascanu (2014), Ian Goodfellow (2014), Guillaume Desjardins (2014), Nicolas Boulanger-Lewandoski (2013), Philippe Hamel (2012), Olivier Delalleau (2012), James Bergstra (2011), Dumitru Erhan (2011), François Rivest (2010), Nicolas Chapados (2009), Hugo Larochelle (2009), Nicolas Le Roux (2008), Julie Carreau (2008), Narjes Boufaden (2005), Pascal Vincent (2003), Charles Dugas (2003), Joumana Ghosn (2002), Steven Pigeon (2001), François Gingras (1999).
M.Sc.	Cristian Dragos Manta (2024), Rahul Patel (2022), Rim Assouel (2020), Rahul Mihir Patel (2020), Stéphanie Larocque (2020), Bhargav Kanuparthi (2020), Samuel Lavoie-Marchildon (2020), Rithesh Kumar (2019), Shagun Sodhani (2019), Francis Dutil (2018), Philippe Lacaille (2018), Olexa Bilaniuk (2018), Dong-Hyun Lee (2018), Kelvin Xu (2017), Soroush Mehri (2016), Samira Shabanian (2016), Jose Rodriguez Sotelo (2016), Kyle Kastner (2016), David Krueger (2016), Matthieu Courbariaux (2015), Pierre Luc Carrier (2014), Eric Thibodeau-Laufer (2014), Nicholas Leonard (2014), Valentin Bisson (2012), François Savard (2011), Olivier Breuleux (2010), Guillaume Desjardins (2009), Pierre-Antoine Manzagol (2007), Dumitru Erhan (2006), Marie Ouimet (2004), Christian Dorion (2004), Maryse Boisvert (2004), Fréderic Morin (2004), Francis Piérault (2003), Jean-François Paiement (2003), Jean-Sébastien Senecal (2003), Christian Jauvin (2003), Lynian Meng (2002), Nicolas Chapados (2000) Vincent-Philippe Lauzon (1999), Simon Latendresse (1999), Julien Desaulnier (1998).

Recognized worldwide as one of the leading experts in artificial intelligence, Yoshua Bengio is most known for his pioneering work in deep learning, earning him the 2018 A.M. Turing Award, “the Nobel Prize of Computing,” with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun.

He is Full Professor at Université de Montréal, and the Founder and Scientific Director of Mila – Quebec AI Institute. He co-directs the CIFAR Learning in Machines & Brains program as Senior Fellow and acts as Scientific Director of IVADO.

In 2019, he was awarded the prestigious Killam Prize and in 2022, became the computer scientist with the highest impact in the world as measured by h-index. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of London and Canada, Knight of the Legion of Honor of France, Officer of the Order of Canada, Member of the UN’s Scientific Advisory Board for Independent Advice on Breakthroughs in Science and Technology since 2023 and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair.

Concerned about the social impact of AI, he actively contributed to the Montreal Declaration for the Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence

Recognized worldwide as one of the leading experts in artificial intelligence, Yoshua Bengio is most known for his pioneering work in deep learning, earning him the 2018 A.M. Turing Award, “the Nobel Prize of Computing,” with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun.

He is Full Professor at Université de Montréal, and the Founder and Scientific Director of Mila – Quebec AI Institute. He co-directs the CIFAR Learning in Machines & Brains program as Senior Fellow and acts as Scientific Director of IVADO.

In 2019, he was awarded the prestigious Killam Prize and for several years has been the computer scientist with the greatest impact in terms of citations, as measured by the h-index. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of London and Canada, Knight of the Legion of Honor of France, Officer of the Order of Canada, Member of the UN’s Scientific Advisory Board for Independent Advice on Breakthroughs in Science and Technology since 2023 and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair.

Concerned about the social impact of AI, he actively contributed to the Montreal Declaration for the Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence and currently chairs the International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI.