I am a Deep Learning Researcher at Microsoft Research (MSR) in Montreal, an Adjunct Professor at the Universtiy of Montreal, and an associate member of Mila. My research focuses on using mutual information estimation and self-supervision in representation learning for applications in computer vision, natural language processing, and RL. My long-term goal is to use machine learning to learn representations that help with scientific discovery.
I earned my Ph.D. at the University of New Mexico where I focused on Unsupervised Learning with applications to Neuroimaging. I then did a postdoc under Yoshua Bengio at Mila as an IVADO “distinguished researcher” fellow, focusing on adversarial learning.
PhD in Computer Science (Distinction), 2016
University of New Mexico
MA Linguistics (Honors), 2011
University of New Mexico
MS Physics, 2009
University of New Mexico