Congratulations to
@Mirco_Ravanelli
, Tituoan Parcollet and Yoshua Bengio on the release of
@PyTorch
-Kaldi, an open source speech recognition toolkit for developing state-of-the-art DNN/HMM speech recognition systems. Explore the project and learn more at:
Félicitations à Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton et Yann LeCun, les pères du
#DeepLearning
, qui reçoivent le prix
#ACMTuringAward
2018. Congratulations to Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, the fathers of
#DeepLearning
, who receive the
#ACMTuringAward
2018 award.
Mila welcomes this morning's announcement by Canadian Prime Minister
@JustinTrudeau
of a historic investment of over $2 billion in AI, including a strategic national computing infrastructure, and the establishment of an institute dedicated to AI safety research.
We are pleased to announce the election of Yoshua Bengio by his peers to
@royalsociety
. He joins some of the greats such as Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Dorothy Hodgkin and Stephen Hawking.
Yesterday, Yoshua Bengio gave a lecture on the principles underlying the recent successes of deep learning, its limitations and research directions for advancing AI on a human scale.
#AI
Mila is proud to report that Yoshua Bengio is now the computer scientist with the most recent citations per day (over the last year), with the top-3 being the deep learning trio, Bengio, Hinton and
@ylecun
, in that order. See the full statistics at
Mila alumnus Kyunghyun Cho
@kchonyc
makes a financial contribution to support female PhD and postdoctoral fellows in order to promote equity and diversity at Mila and within the AI community.
On April 23, Yoshua Bengio will give a keynote talk on machine learning for drug discovery against infectious diseases during the Mila TechAide AI Conference.
@Google
@Microsoft
@IVADO_Qc
@UbisoftMtl
@DeepMind
Register today:
The prestigious American magazine
@TIME
named Yoshua Bengio, Founder and Scientific Director of Mila and Full Professor at
@UMontreal
, to the 2024
#TIME100
, its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Congratulations Yoshua!
Yoshua Bengio, Mila’s Founder and Scientific Director, has been appointed Member of the new UN’s Scientific Advisory Board for Independent Advice on Breakthroughs in Science and Technology by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
Full press release:
Our Scientific Director Yoshua Bengio has been named Knight of the Legion of Honour by France in recognition of his scientific contributions, his humanistic commitment to developing responsible AI, and his dedication to the Franco-Canadian relationship.
Interested in joining Mila's research community? Our annual supervision request process for new Mila students is starting this Sunday October 15, 2023.
For more information ➡️
CIFAR DLRL Summer School: Apply now!
Join us from July 29-August 6 in Montreal, Quebec, for the 2020 Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning Summer School.
#DLRLSS2020
Applications close Feb. 22.
@CIFAR_News
@AmiiThinks
@VectorInst
This new partnership will create exciting opportunities for our researchers to collaborate with
@twittereng
researchers on the development of responsible, community-driven machine learning systems.
Congratulations to Mila & McGill Professor Doina Precup, who was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada! Prof. Precup, a Canada CIFAR AI Chair and Research Lead at
@DeepMind
in Montreal, is recognized for her contributions to
#RL
and
#ML
for medicine.
Mila is bringing its machine learning expertise to the scientific community together with its partners across different disciplines to help find potential solutions to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Our Scientific Director Yoshua Bengio is now
#2
in the world ranking of top scientists in computer science and electronics by
@Guide2Research
, the prestigious portal for computer science research:
From November 8 to 10, Mila will be holding its first workshop on generative flow networks (GFlowNets).
Save this link and join us online tomorrow as of 9:30am :
Congratulations to the six Faculty Members of
@MILAMontreal
on being named a Canada CIFAR AI Chair and thank you for your Canadian
#AI
leadership. Read the full announcement:
#CIFARAI
@CIFAR_News
Mila and AI startup
@CohereAI
announce a new partnership to foster meaningful research collaborations within the developer community and accelerate access to cutting-edge
#NLP
tools.
We’re sharing & learning today at the 3rd annual Microsoft Research & Mila Workshop, bringing together Mila professors, students and MSR researchers from around the world who are working together to advance the state-of-the-art fundamental and applied AI research.
@MSFTResearch
Mila's strength is the diversity of people in its community.
Registration to study at Mila for Fall 2021 is now open!
📅 You have until December 15th to apply!
👉
Reminder - CIFAR DLRL Summer School: Apply now!
Join us from July 29-August 6 in Montreal, Quebec, for the 2020 Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning Summer School.
#DLRLSS2020
Applications close Feb. 22.
@CIFAR_News
@AmiiThinks
@VectorInst
🎉Congratulations to our founder and scientific director Yoshua Bengio, who received the Medal of Honour from the National Assembly of Québec yesterday in recognition of his scientific career and commitment to making Québec a world leader in the responsible development of AI !
We are soliciting your assistance in training a chatbot who will be able to answer questions from the public about VIDOC-19. Just ask any questions you might have!
@godialogue
@NuanceInc
Congratulations to prof Bengio who have been inducted as a AAAI Fellow yesterday evening along with Yann LeCun and several others.
#AI
#Montreal
@UMontreal
Yesterday, we had the honour to welcome German Chancellor
@OlafScholz
, a delegation of prominent business leaders and Canadian Prime Minister
@JustinTrudeau
. They met with leading AI researchers and entrepreneurs from our community.
More details:
Congratulations to David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Mila Core Academic Member and Assistant Professor at
@mcgillu
who has been appointed a Canada
@CIFAR_News
AI Chair!
Read the announcement:
Mila's professor Jian Tang and his group has developed a general and high-performance graph embedding system called GraphVite specifically designed for large-scale graphs.
We are one week away from ICLR 2024, where Mila researchers will present over 50 scientific papers.
See the full list of Mila-affiliated papers accepted at
@iclr_conf
here 👇
Mila salue l'annonce d’investissement historique de plus 2G$ en IA, notamment pour une infrastructure nationale de calcul stratégique ainsi que la mise en place d’un institut dédié à la recherche sur la sécurité de l’IA réalisée par le premier ministre du Canada
@JustinTrudeau
.
Interested in joining Mila's research community?
The recruitment period for new Mila students will take place from October 15 to December 1, 2022.
For more information 👉
As International Women’s Day fast approaches, we have rounded up a list of 10 women advancing AI in Canada to celebrate their strides and accomplishments.
#CDNtech
#womenintech
We are pleased to share the conferences of the Neural Backpropagation Workshop that took place at Mila in December 2019. Talks by Yoshua Bengio, Irina Rish, Blake Richards and Gaël Varoquaux.
#dlrl
#AI
On October 14, Yoshua Bengio, Mila's scientific director and founder, was recognized as the 3rd most influential scientist in the world, according to
@Stanford
's top 2% Scientists directory.
Read the article ➡️
Congrats to all 29 Canada
@CIFAR_News
AI Chairs announced today at
#AICan
by the honorable Minister
@FP_Champagne
. Mila is pleased to present 10 faculty members among the newest cohort of chairs:
Thanks to substantial funding from
@SimonsFdn
, researchers
@g_lajoie_
(Mila, UdeM) &
@neuroamyo
@UW
hope to further the understanding of how multiple brain areas collaborate to guide learning across neural networks, a process that remains largely unknown.
We are proud that
@UMontreal
and
@mcgillu
are once again recognized in the top 100 of the prestigious Times Higher Education ranking. Also the Computer Science programs of these two universities are respectively ranked 34th and 54th in the world👏
From mitigating the risk of birth asphyxia to helping the public visualize climate change, our members'
#AI4SocialGood
projects are getting noticed.
@onucharlesc
and
@SashaMTL
selected among
@HCRCS
Rising Stars for their exemplary work in the field:
Mila's founder and scientific director, Yoshua Bengio, published an article on his website explaining why he signed the open letter asking for a pause in the development of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.
Read the news here 👉
#CIFAR
AI Chair
@gfarnadi
, Mila researcher and Assistant Professor at
@HEC_Montreal
, named among 2021 recipients of the Google AI Research Scholar Program for her project "Addressing Fairness in Decision-focused Deep Learning."
Borealis AI is thrilled to announce our 2018-2019 Graduate Fellowship winners! Meet our 10 outstanding finalists and learn more about the research topics they'll be pursuing this year.
#AI
#Canada
Notre directeur scientifique Yoshua Bengio donnera une grande conférence gratuite ce jeudi 28 octobre au Centre de recherches mathématiques de
@UMontreal
intitulée Intelligence artificielle : entre généraliser et comprendre. Inscrivez-vous ici!
This week, Mila researchers will present more than 50 papers at
@iclr_conf
in Vienna. Every day, we will share a schedule featuring Mila-affiliated presentations.
Day 1 👇
#ICLR2024
“In nature and in artificial intelligence, there are two key functions to learn: perception and prediction. And I believe prediction is the real driver of what we’d define as intelligence.”
Guillaume Lajoie, Core Academic Member at Mila, in a tech talk at
#WSAIAM24
.
@g_lajoie_
Yesterday, Yoshua Bengio, founder and scientific director of Mila, and Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, exchanged views on how AI is set to transform society as part of the
#TIME100
Summit. Watch the full conversation here:
Nous sollicitons votre aide pour entraîner un agent conversationnel (chatbot) qui sera capable de répondre aux questions du public sur la COVID-19. Vous n’avez qu’à poser toutes les questions que vous avez en tête !
#IA
#COVID
ー19
@godialogue
@NuanceInc
Notre directeur scientifique Yoshua Bengio a été nommé Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur par la France qui reconnaît son apport scientifique unique, son engagement pour l’IA responsable et son implication pour la relation franco-canadienne.
The Mila community offers sincere condolences to the family, friends, colleagues and students of Professor François Laviolette who recently passed away. François was recognized in the Quebec scientific community as a pioneer in machine learning research.
Life at Mila, ep. 5:
@bonadossou
is an intern-research affiliate at Mila from
@jacobs_bremen
. He shares with us his research interests in deep learning and molecular models and his love for the French language and Montreal as an intercultural city.
We are thrilled to announce our lineup of speakers who will be present at
#MoML2023
. You don’t want to miss this year's conference.
Register now and submit a poster today 👉
We are excited to announce that the molecular machine learning conference (
#MoML2023
) is making a return at Mila on May 29, 2023!
⭐ Registrations and poster submissions are now open, students can register for free ⭐
Mila is proud to announce that
@david_rolnick
–core academic member,
@CIFAR_News
AI Chair and Assistant Professor at
@mcgillu
–has been named to MIT
@techreview
's prestigious annual list of Innovators Under 35 as a Pioneer.
Mila PhD student Mélisande Teng was awarded a prize at
#ICLR2023
for her AI model mapping ecosystems to better understand the relationships between species and their habitat and ultimately facilitate decision-making on environmental preservation.
Congratulations to
@tyrell_turing
, Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science and the Montreal Neurological Institute at
@mcgillu
and Core Academic Member at Mila, for winning the Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship in 2022.
Read article here 👉
Congratulations to Mila and
@IVADO_Qc
professor Guillaume Dumas (
@introspection
) and colleagues for their work in the journal
@PNASNews
which presents a new neurocomputational model of the brain.