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Career

· Senior Staff Developer Tech Lead, Shopify2020–2025
· GPU compiler team, Apple
· McGill
· B.Sc., Honours Computer Science, McGill University
· Researcher, Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (Mila)
· PhD in Computer Science, Université de Montréal
· PhD in compiler design, yasp

Publications (54)

Minigrid & Miniworld: Modular & Customizable Reinforcement Learning Environments for Goal-Oriented Tasks
Neural Information Processing Systems · 2023
316
cited
BabyAI: A Platform to Study the Sample Efficiency of Grounded Language Learning
International Conference on Learning Representations · 2018
295
cited
BabyAI: First Steps Towards Grounded Language Learning With a Human In the Loop
arXiv.org · 2018
178
cited
Optimizing Matlab through Just-In-Time Specialization
International Conference on Compiler Construction · 2010
56
cited
Options of Interest: Temporal Abstraction with Interest Functions
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2020
50
cited
Simple and Effective Type Check Removal through Lazy Basic Block Versioning
European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming · 2014
33
cited
Option-critic in cooperative multi-agent systems
Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems · 2019
32
cited
Interprocedural Type Specialization of JavaScript Programs Without Type Analysis
European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming · 2015
22
cited
McLab: an extensible compiler toolkit for MATLAB and related languages
Canadian Conference on Computer Science & Software Engineering · 2010
17
cited
BabyAI 1.1
2020
15
cited
Bootstrapping a self-hosted research virtual machine for JavaScript: an experience report
Dynamic Languages Symposium · 2011
11
cited
Combating False Negatives in Adversarial Imitation Learning
IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Network · 2020
8
cited
YJIT: a basic block versioning JIT compiler for CRuby
VMIL@SPLASH · 2021
8
cited
DeepDrummer : Generating Drum Loops using Deep Learning and a Human in the Loop
AIMC · 2020
7
cited
MCVM: AN OPTIMIZING VIRTUAL MACHINE FOR THE MATLAB PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
2009
5
cited
On the fly type specialization without type analysis
2016
4
cited
Type Check Removal Using Lazy Interprocedural Code Versioning September 4
2015
4
cited
Extending Basic Block Versioning with Typed Object Shapes
arXiv.org · 2015
3
cited
Automated curriculum generation for Policy Gradients from Demonstrations
arXiv.org · 2019
2
cited
McLAB: enabling programming language, compiler and software engineering research for matlab
OOPSLA Companion · 2011
2
cited
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