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.
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Born | 1974 (age 48–49) |
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Awards | AAAI Fellow (2018) |
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Thesis | Tractable Planning Under Uncertainty: Exploiting Structure (2004) |
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Website | www |
Early life and education
Pineau was born in 1974 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 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]
References
- Joëlle Pineau publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Castonguay, Alec. "Le CV : Joëlle Pineau". L’actualité (in Canadian French). Retrieved July 28, 2018.
- "Facebook: Qui est Joëlle Pineau, la femme qui pèse dans le milieu de l'intelligence artificielle?". www.20minutes.fr (in French). July 3, 2018. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
- "Joelle Pineau's Home". www.cs.mcgill.ca. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
- "Bio - Joelle Pineau". CIFAR. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
- Krause, Alex. "Point-based value iteration: An anytime algorithm for POMDPs". The Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved July 28, 2018.
- "Joelle Pineau - The Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University". www.ri.cmu.edu. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
- "Joëlle Pineau to head new Facebook AI (FAIR) lab in Montreal : McGill Reporter". publications.mcgill.ca. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
- "Towards Personal Service Robots for the Elderly". www.cs.cmu.edu. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
- "Nursebot : Towards Personal Service Robots for the Elderly". homes.cs.washington.edu. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
- "Smart wheelchair gives users more autonomy : McGill Reporter". publications.mcgill.ca. Archived from the original on July 28, 2018. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
- "The College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists | The Royal Society of Canada". rsc-src.ca. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
- Division, Government of Canada, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Communications (June 28, 2016). "NSERC - E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowships". www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - BRUEL, Benjamin (June 29, 2018). ""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 July 27, 2018.
- Thodoroff, Pierre (December 10, 2016). "Learning Robust Features using Deep Learning for Automatic Seizure Detection". Machine Learning and Healthcare Conference(2016): 178–190. arXiv:1608.00220. Retrieved December 31, 2016.
- "Editorial Team | Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research". www.jair.org. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
- "JMLR Editorial Board". jmlr.csail.mit.edu. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
- The Artificial Intelligence Channel (November 11, 2017), Canada's Artificial Intelligence Revolution - Dr. Joelle Pineau, retrieved July 27, 2018
- "A conversation with Dr. Joëlle Pineau, head of new FAIR lab in Montreal". Facebook Research. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
- "Research Award Recipients". Facebook Research. Retrieved July 28, 2018.
- Canada 2020 (November 11, 2016), Artificial Intelligence, Made in Canada, retrieved July 27, 2018
- Gershgorn, Dave. "The titans of AI are getting their work double-checked by students". Quartz. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
- Barber, Gregory (September 16, 2019). "Artificial Intelligence Confronts a 'Reproducibility' Crisis". Wired. Archived from the original on March 29, 2023.
- "RE•WORK | Joelle Pineau". www.re-work.co. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
- "Dr. Joëlle Pineau | The mentor of machines". C2 Montréal. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
- "A Governor General's Innovation Award for AI Pioneer Joelle Pineau". McGill University. May 13, 2019.
- "Dr. Joelle Pineau - Governor General's Innovation Awards". The Governor General of Canada. Retrieved July 18, 2019.