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Career

· VP AI Research, Global lead for Fundamental AI Research (FAIR), Meta2023–2025
· Head of Facebook AI Research Lab (Montreal), Meta2017–2023
· Professor and William Dawson Scholar, School of Computer Science, McGill University2004–
· MSc and PhD in Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University
· Core Academic Member, Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute
· Software Engineer, Natural Resources Canada
· BSc in Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo

Publications (551)

Deep Reinforcement Learning that Matters
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2017
2,173
cited
Building End-To-End Dialogue Systems Using Generative Hierarchical Neural Network Models
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2015
1,797
cited
An Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning
Found. Trends Mach. Learn. · 2018
1,419
cited
How NOT To Evaluate Your Dialogue System: An Empirical Study of Unsupervised Evaluation Metrics for Dialogue Response Generation
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2016
1,362
cited
Point-based value iteration: an anytime algorithm for POMDPs
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2003
1,210
cited
A Hierarchical Latent Variable Encoder-Decoder Model for Generating Dialogues
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2016
1,134
cited
The Ubuntu Dialogue Corpus: A Large Dataset for Research in Unstructured Multi-Turn Dialogue Systems
SIGDIAL Conference · 2015
969
cited
Towards robotic assistants in nursing homes: Challenges and results
Robotics Auton. Syst. · 2003
720
cited
Bayesian Reinforcement Learning: A Survey
Found. Trends Mach. Learn. · 2015
691
cited
An Actor-Critic Algorithm for Sequence Prediction
International Conference on Learning Representations · 2016
661
cited
Towards the Systematic Reporting of the Energy and Carbon Footprints of Machine Learning
arXiv.org · 2020
596
cited
Online Planning Algorithms for POMDPs
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research · 2008
592
cited
Improving Sample Efficiency in Model-Free Reinforcement Learning from Images
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2019
497
cited
TarMAC: Targeted Multi-Agent Communication
International Conference on Machine Learning · 2018
465
cited
Improving Reproducibility in Machine Learning Research (A Report from the NeurIPS 2019 Reproducibility Program)
Journal of machine learning research · 2020
454
cited
Anytime Point-Based Approximations for Large POMDPs
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research · 2006
427
cited
The Second Conversational Intelligence Challenge (ConvAI2)
The NeurIPS '18 Competition · 2019
389
cited
Pearl: A Mobile Robotic Assistant for the Elderly
2002
387
cited
Transparency and reproducibility in artificial intelligence
Nature · 2020
382
cited
Towards an Automatic Turing Test: Learning to Evaluate Dialogue Responses
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2017
379
cited
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