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Joelle Pineau
Vice President of AI Research at Meta; Computer Science Professor at McGill University
Joelle Pineau is a Professor and William Dawson Scholar at the School of Computer Science at McGill University, where she co-directs the Reasoning and Learning Lab. She is a core academic faculty member of Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, a Canada CIFAR AI Chair, and Vice President of AI research at Meta where she leads the Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team.
Pineau's research focuses primarily on developing new models and algorithms for planning and learning in complex, partially observable domains. She also applies these algorithms to robotics, health care, games, and conversational agents.
Pineau holds a BASc in Engineering from the University of Waterloo and an MSc and PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University. She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors: NSERC’s E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship (2018), Governor General Innovation Award (2019), Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Senior Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She serves on the board of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research and the Journal of Machine Learning Research.
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