Joëlle Pineau

Joëlle Pineau (born 1974) is a Canadian Computer Scientist and Associate Professor at McGill University.[1] She is the lead of Facebook's Artificial Intelligence Research lab (FAIR) in Montreal, Quebec.

Joëlle Pineau
Joëlle Pineau speaks at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in 2018
Born1974 (age 45–46)
Ottawa, Ontario
Alma mater
AwardsAAAI Fellow (2018)
Scientific career
Institutions
ThesisTractable Planning Under Uncertainty: Exploiting Structure (2004)
Academic advisorsSebastian Thrun
Geoffrey J. Gordon
Websitewww.cs.mcgill.ca/~jpineau/

Early life and education

Pineau was born in Ottawa, Ontario.[2] She played violin in the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra.[2][3] She eventually studied engineering at the University of Waterloo.[4] She completed her postgraduate education in robotics at Carnegie Mellon University in 2004.[4][5] A chapter of Pineau's Masters thesis, Point-based value iteration: An anytime algorithm for POMDPs, has been published and cited almost 1,000 times.[6] Her doctoral thesis, Tractable Planning Under Uncertainty: Exploiting Structure, was supervised by Sebastian Thrun and Geoff Gordon.[7]

Research and career

Pineau develops models for algorithms and models that allow learning in partially complex domains.[4] She is co-director of McGill University's Reasoning and Learning Lab.[8] She founded two start-ups that develop robotic assistants for the elderly; the SmartWheeler initiative and the Nursebot platform.[9][10] SmartWheeler is a multi-modal wheelchair that combines artificial intelligence and robotics.[11]

She is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and a Senior Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.[4] In 2016 she was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.[12] Pineau investigates approaches to personal medicine, using data from medical charts, X-ray images, clinical notes and lab reports to generate new treatment strategies.[13] She teaches Artificial intelligence how to analyse medical scans.[14] Her team have used Deep learning for detecting seizures.[15] She serves as an editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) and the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR).[16][17] She has given lectures for the Artificial Intelligence Channel.[18]

In 2017 Pineau was appointed the head of the Facebook AI Research Lab in Montreal.[19] She won a Facebook Research Award.[20] She spoke at the third annual Canada 2020 conference.[21] Here she focuses on reinforcement learning, deep learning, computer vision and video understanding.[19] In 2018 she won the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship.[13] She challenges Artificial intelligence research that is not reproducible.[22] She is President of the International Machine Learning Society.[23][24] In 2019, Pineau received a Governor General's Innovation Award for her leadership in the innovative applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning to the field of personalized medicine.[25][26]

gollark: *can't tell if joke or insane person*
gollark: …
gollark: I think quite a lot of countries allow arbitrary recording of calls.
gollark: Doesn't that apply to companies and not people?
gollark: So it's a good idea to annoy *everyone*?

References
  1. Joëlle Pineau publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. Castonguay, Alec. "Le CV : Joëlle Pineau". L’actualité (in French). Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  3. "Facebook: Qui est Joëlle Pineau, la femme qui pèse dans le milieu de l'intelligence artificielle?". www.20minutes.fr (in French). Retrieved 2018-07-27.
  4. "Joelle Pineau's Home". www.cs.mcgill.ca. Retrieved 2018-07-27.
  5. "Bio - Joelle Pineau". CIFAR. Retrieved 2018-07-27.
  6. Krause, Alex. "Point-based value iteration: An anytime algorithm for POMDPs". The Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  7. "Joelle Pineau - The Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University". www.ri.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-27.
  8. "Joëlle Pineau to head new Facebook AI (FAIR) lab in Montreal : McGill Reporter". publications.mcgill.ca. Retrieved 2018-07-27.
  9. "Towards Personal Service Robots for the Elderly". www.cs.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-27.
  10. "Nursebot : Towards Personal Service Robots for the Elderly". homes.cs.washington.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-27.
  11. "Smart wheelchair gives users more autonomy : McGill Reporter". publications.mcgill.ca. Retrieved 2018-07-27.
  12. "The College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists | The Royal Society of Canada". rsc-src.ca. Retrieved 2018-07-27.
  13. Division, Government of Canada, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Communications (2016-06-28). "NSERC - E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowships". www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca. Retrieved 2018-07-27.
  14. BRUEL, Benjamin (2018-06-29). ""Les machines peuvent être créatives", assure Joëlle Pineau, à la tête du laboratoire FAIR de Facebook à Montréal". Mashable avec France 24 (in French). Retrieved 2018-07-27.
  15. Thodoroff, Pierre. "Learning Robust Features using Deep Learning for Automatic Seizure Detection". Machine Learning and Healthcare Conference(2016). Retrieved 2016-12-31.
  16. "Editorial Team | Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research". www.jair.org. Retrieved 2018-07-27.
  17. "JMLR Editorial Board". jmlr.csail.mit.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-27.
  18. The Artificial Intelligence Channel (2017-11-11), Canada's Artificial Intelligence Revolution - Dr. Joelle Pineau, retrieved 2018-07-27
  19. "A conversation with Dr. Joëlle Pineau, head of new FAIR lab in Montreal". Facebook Research. Retrieved 2018-07-27.
  20. "Research Award Recipients". Facebook Research. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  21. Canada 2020 (2016-11-11), Artificial Intelligence, Made in Canada, retrieved 2018-07-27
  22. Gershgorn, Dave. "The titans of AI are getting their work double-checked by students". Quartz. Retrieved 2018-07-27.
  23. "RE•WORK | Joelle Pineau". www.re-work.co. Retrieved 2018-07-27.
  24. "Dr. Joëlle Pineau | The mentor of machines". C2 Montréal. Retrieved 2018-07-27.
  25. "A Governor General's Innovation Award for AI Pioneer Joelle Pineau". McGill University. 13 May 2019.
  26. "Dr. Joelle Pineau - Governor General's Innovation Awards". The Governor General of Canada. Retrieved 18 July 2019.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.