Biography:Joëlle Pineau
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 Joëlle Pineau speaks at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in 2018 | |
| Born | 1974 (age 49–50) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
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| Awards | AAAI Fellow (2018), Governor General's Innovation Award, (2019) |
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| Thesis | Tractable Planning Under Uncertainty: Exploiting Structure (2004) |
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| Website | https://ai.meta.com/people/joelle-pineau/, https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~jpineau/ |
Joëlle Pineau (born 1974) is a Canadian computer scientist and Associate Professor at McGill University.[1] She is the global Vice President of Meta's Artificial Intelligence Research department, also known as FAIR, and is based in Montreal , Quebec.
Early life and education
Pineau was born in 1974 in Ottawa, Ontario.[2] She played the viola 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 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 was the reproducibility chair for the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems in 2019, where she introduced the requirement of a reproducibility checklist as part of the paper submission process.[23] She is president of the International Machine Learning Society.[24][25] 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.[26][27] She has climbed the ranks within FAIR and is now leading the entire AI research organization at Meta.
References
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- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Castonguay, Alec. "Le CV : Joëlle Pineau" (in fr-CA). L’actualité. https://lactualite.com/techno/2017/10/13/le-cv-joelle-pineau/.
- ↑ "Facebook: Qui est Joëlle Pineau, la femme qui pèse dans le milieu de l'intelligence artificielle?" (in fr). 2018-07-03. https://www.20minutes.fr/arts-stars/culture/2300215-20180703-facebook-joelle-pineau-femme-pese-milieu-intelligence-artificielle.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "Joelle Pineau's Home". https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~jpineau/.
- ↑ "Bio - Joelle Pineau" (in en-ca). https://www.cifar.ca/bio/joelle-pineau.
- ↑ Krause, Alex. "Point-based value iteration: An anytime algorithm for POMDPs" (in en-US). https://www.ri.cmu.edu/publications/point-based-value-iteration-an-anytime-algorithm-for-pomdps/.
- ↑ "Joelle Pineau - The Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University" (in en-US). https://www.ri.cmu.edu/ri-people/joelle-pineau/.
- ↑ "Joëlle Pineau to head new Facebook AI (FAIR) lab in Montreal : McGill Reporter" (in en-US). https://publications.mcgill.ca/reporter/2017/09/joelle-pineau-to-head-new-facebook-ai-fair-lab-in-montreal/.
- ↑ "Towards Personal Service Robots for the Elderly". https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rll/guide2001/flo/html/flo.html.
- ↑ "Nursebot : Towards Personal Service Robots for the Elderly". https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~mausam/AIpresentation/elderly.htm.
- ↑ "Smart wheelchair gives users more autonomy : McGill Reporter" (in en-US). https://publications.mcgill.ca/reporter/2017/04/a-robot-you-can-drive-meet-mcgills-smartwheeler/.
- ↑ "The College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists | The Royal Society of Canada" (in en). https://rsc-src.ca/en/college-new-scholars-artists-and-scientists.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Division, Government of Canada, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Communications (2016-06-28). "NSERC - E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowships" (in en). http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Prizes-Prix/Steacie-Steacie/Index-Index_eng.asp.
- ↑ BRUEL, Benjamin (2018-06-29). ""Les machines peuvent être créatives", assure Joëlle Pineau, à la tête du laboratoire FAIR de Facebook à Montréal" (in fr-FR). Mashable avec France 24. http://mashable.france24.com/tech-business/20180629-joelle-pineau-facebook-fair-ia-mcgill-usi.
- ↑ Thodoroff, Pierre (10 December 2016) (in en-US). Learning Robust Features using Deep Learning for Automatic Seizure Detection. pp. 178–190. http://proceedings.mlr.press/v56/Thodoroff16.html. Retrieved 2016-12-31.
- ↑ "Editorial Team | Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research" (in en-US). https://www.jair.org/index.php/jair/about/editorialTeam.
- ↑ "JMLR Editorial Board". http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/editorial-board.html.
- ↑ The Artificial Intelligence Channel (2017-11-11), Canada's Artificial Intelligence Revolution - Dr. Joelle Pineau, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JdeTqRhwEs, retrieved 2018-07-27
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 "A conversation with Dr. Joëlle Pineau, head of new FAIR lab in Montreal" (in en-US). https://research.fb.com/a-conversation-with-dr-joelle-pineau-head-of-new-fair-lab-in-montreal.
- ↑ "Research Award Recipients" (in en-US). https://research.fb.com/programs/faculty-awards/page/8/.
- ↑ Canada 2020 (2016-11-11), Artificial Intelligence, Made in Canada, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYfp9-kZxzI, retrieved 2018-07-27
- ↑ Gershgorn, Dave. "The titans of AI are getting their work double-checked by students" (in en-US). Quartz. https://qz.com/1118671/the-titans-of-ai-are-getting-their-work-double-checked-by-students/.
- ↑ Barber, Gregory (2019-09-16). "Artificial Intelligence Confronts a 'Reproducibility' Crisis". Wired. https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-confronts-reproducibility-crisis/.
- ↑ "RE•WORK | Joelle Pineau" (in en). https://www.re-work.co/events/deep-learning-summit-montreal-canada-track1-2017/speakers/joelle-pineau.
- ↑ "Dr. Joëlle Pineau | The mentor of machines" (in en-US). C2 Montréal. https://www.c2montreal.com/speaker/joelle-pineau/.
- ↑ "A Governor General's Innovation Award for AI Pioneer Joelle Pineau". McGill University. 2019-05-13. https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/governor-generals-innovation-award-ai-pioneer-joelle-pineau-297076.
- ↑ "Dr. Joelle Pineau - Governor General's Innovation Awards". The Governor General of Canada. https://innovation.gg.ca/winner/dr-joelle-pineau/. Retrieved 2019-07-18.
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