Alumni

Name
Position
Current Position

Joseph Modayil
Research Associate
Research Scientist, DeepMind
Elliot Ludvig
Research Associate
Associate Professor, University of Warwick
Mark Ring
Research Associate
Founder, Cogitai
Omid Namaki Shoushtari
Research Associate

Karim Abou-Moustafa
Post-Doc
Research Analyst, AIMCo
Tiberio Caetano
Post-Doc
Research Scientist, DeepMind
Li Cheng
Post-Doc
Associate Professor, Department of ECE, University of Alberta
Thomas Degris-Dard
Post-Doc
Research Scientist, DeepMind
Yaki Engel
Post-Doc
Mohammad Ghavamzadeh
Post-Doc
Senior Research Scientist, Facebook AI Research
Yuxi Li
Post-Doc
Founder, Attain.ai
Wenye Li
Post-Doc
Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong,
David Pal
Post-Doc
Principal Applied Researcher, Expedia Group
Istvan Szita
Post-Doc
Software Engineer, Google
Joel Veness
Post-Doc
Research Scientist, DeepMind
Hado van Hasselt
Post-Doc
Research Scientist, DeepMind
Harm van Seijen
Post-Doc
Research Scientist, Microsoft Research
Tor Lattimore
Post-Doc
Research Scientist, DeepMind
Linli Xu
Post-Doc
Associate Professor, University of Science and Technology China
Xinhua Zhang
Post-Doc
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
Martin Zinkevich
Post-Doc
Software Engineer, Google
Samuele Tosatto
Post-Doc
Assistant Professor @ Universität Innsbruck
Yash Satsangi
Post-Doc
Assistant Prof at Tilburg University

Yasin Abbasi-Yadkori
Ph.D
Researcher at VinAI
Arash Afkanpour
Ph.D
Senior Software Engineer, Google
Ozlem Aslan
Ph.D
Research Scientist, DeepMind
Bernardo Ávila Pires
Ph.D
Research Scientist, DeepMind
Gabor Balazs
Ph.D
Quantitative Analyst, Causality Group
Nolan Bard
Ph.D
Research Scientist, DeepMind
Gabor Bartok
Ph.D
Software Engineer, Google
Marc G. Bellemare
Ph.D
Research Scientist, Google Brain
Amir massoud Farahmand
Ph.D
Research Faculty, Vector
Alireza Farhangfar
Ph.D
Machine Learning Engineer, Apple
Yuhong Guo
Ph.D
Associate Professor, Carelton University
Ruitong Huang
Ph.D
Research Team Lead, Borealis AI Edmonton
Michael Johanson
Ph.D
Senior Research Scientist, DeepMind
Pooria Joulani
Ph.D
DeepMind, London
Marc Lanctot
Ph.D
Research Scientist, DeepMind
Lei Le
Ph.D
Applied Scientist, Amazon
Dan Lizotte
Ph.D
Assistant Professor, University of Western Ontario
Marlos C. Machado
Ph.D
Senior Research Scientist, DeepMind
Hamid Reza Maei
Ph.D
Staff Research Scientist, Criteo
Ashique Rupam Mahmood
Ph.D
Assistant Professor, University of Alberta
Kory Mathewson
Ph.D
Research Scientists, DeepMind
Farzaneh Mirzazadeh
Ph.D
Postdoctoral Researcher, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab
James Neufeld
Ph.D
Staff ML Engineer, Twitter
Chris Rayner
Ph.D
Engineer Platform Scientist, IBM
Yi Shi
Ph.D
Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
David Silver
Ph.D
Distinguished Research Scientist, DeepMind
Adam White
Ph.D
Senior Research Scientist, DeepMind/Assistant Professor, University of Alberta
Martha White
Ph.D
Associate Professor, University of Alberta
Min Yang
Ph.D
Hengshuai Yao
Ph.D
Research Scientist, Huawei
Yaoliang Yu
Ph.D
Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo
Qin Iris Wang
Ph.D
Research Scientist, LinkedIn Inc.
Sina Ghiassian
Ph.D
Research Scientist, Spotify
Tao Wang
Ph.D
Senior Applied Research Scientist, Apple
Alex Kearney
Ph.D
Co-Founder, Artificial-Agency
Raksha Kumaraswamy
Ph.D
Research Scientist, Sony AI
Matthew Schlegel
Ph.D
Member of Technical Staff, Research, modl.ai
Dustin Morrill
Ph.D
Research Scientist, Sony AI
Yi Wan
Ph.D
Postdoctoral Researcher, Meta
Yangchen Pan
Ph.D
Departmental Lecturer at the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford
Nadia Ady
Ph.D
Postdoctoral Researcher, Aalto University
Andrew Patterson
Ph.D
Banafsheh Rafiee
Ph.D
Abhishek Naik
Ph.D
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Research Council of Canada
Kenny Young
Ph.D
Founding Research Scientist, Astrus
Kris De Asis
Ph.D
Research Fellow, Openmind Research Institute
Vincent Liu
Ph.D
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia
Craig Sherstan
Ph.D
Research Scientist, Sony AI
Mohammad Mahdi Ajallooeian
Ph.D
AMII
Jincheng Mei
Ph.D
Research Scientist, Google Brain

Kris De Asis
M.Sc
PhD, University of Alberta
Ken Dwyer
M.Sc
Machine Learning Engineer, Intellipse
Michael Delp
M.Sc
Travis Dick
M.Sc
PhD, CMU
Leah Hackman
M.Sc
Research Engineer, DeepMind
Zach Holland
M.Sc
Research Engineer, DeepMind
Ehsan Imani
M.Sc
PhD, University of Alberta
Andrew Jacobsen
M.Sc
PhD, University of Alberta
Taher Jaferjee
M.Sc
Michael Joya
M.Sc
Fushan Li
M.Sc
Sungsu Lim
M.Sc
PhD, University of Alberta
Vincent Liu
M.Sc
PhD, University of Alberta
Neda Mirian
M.Sc
Software Engineer, Google
Somjit Nath
M.Sc
Machine Learning Engineer, Eidos Montreal
Brian Tanner
M.Sc
Research Engineer, DeepMind
Tian Tian
M.Sc
PhD, University of Alberta
Kevin Waugh
M.Sc
PhD, CMU
Jaden Travnik
M.Sc
Vivek Veeriah Jeya Veeraiah
M.Sc
PhD, University of Michigan
Shangtong Zhang
M.Sc
PhD, Oxford
Muhammad Zaheer
M.Sc
Research Enginner, DeepMind
Paniz Behboudian
M.Sc
Research Associate, Huawei
Ryan D'Orazio
M.Sc
PhD, MILA
Samuel Sokota
M.Sc
PhD, CMU
Dylan Ashley
M.Sc
PhD, ISDIA
Cam Linke
M.Sc
CEO, Amii
Parash Rahman
M.Sc
Alan Chan
M.Sc
PhD, MILA
Dhawal Gupta
M.Sc
PhD, UMass
Archit Sakhadeo
M.Sc
Kirby Banman
M.Sc
Khurram Javed
M.Sc
PhD, University of Alberta
Maryam Hashemzadeh
M.Sc
Alex Ayoub
M.Sc
PhD, University of Alberta
Mohamed Elsayed
M.Sc
PhD, University of Alberta
Amir Samani
M.Sc
Deep Learning Software Engineer, Nvidia
Connor Stephens
M.Sc
Machine Learning Engineer, Atomic AI
Chunlok Lo
M.Sc
Software engineer, Roit Games
Erfan Miahi
M.Sc
Quantitative Research Engineer, DeepR Analytics
Ruo Yu (David) Tao
M.Sc
PhD, Brown University
Esra'a Saleh
M.Sc
PhD, University of Montreal
Brad Burega
M.Sc
Software engineer, Spade
Abilmansur Zhumabekov
M.Sc
Associate Researcher, Huawei Technologies
Subhojeet Pramanik
M.Sc
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Costimate
Vlad Tkachuk
M.Sc
PhD, University of Alberta
Kamran Janjua
M.Sc
Machine Learning Researcher, Huawei Technologies
Rohan Nuttall
M.Sc
Applied AI, OpenAI
Hager Radi
M.Sc
Applied Research Scientist, Mila
Kiarash Aghakasiri
M.Sc
Support Researcher, Huawei Techonologies
Matthew McLeod
M.Sc
Data Scientist, Genentech
Amirmohsen Sattarifard
M.Sc
AI Researcher, Huawei Technologies
Shiva Soleimany
M.Sc
Data Engineer, Borealis AI
Homayoon Farrahi
M.Sc
PhD, University of Alberta
Xutong Zhao
M.Sc
PhD, MILA
Sahir
M.Sc
Machine Learning Scientist, AMII
Farnaz Kohankhaki
M.Sc
Machine Learning Specialist, Vector Institute
Yan Wang
M.Sc
Machine Learning Engineer, DeepR Analytics
Calarina Muslimani
M.Sc
PhD, University of Alberta
Md Saiful Islam
M.Sc
Data Scientist, Canadian VIGOUR Centre
Edan Meyer
M.Sc
Co-founder, Intract
Kushagra Chandak
M.Sc
PhD, University of Alberta
Jiamin He
M.Sc
PhD, University of Alberta
Derek Li
M.Sc
Associate Researcher, Huawei Technologies
Yufeng Yuan
M.Sc
Niko Yasui
M.Sc
Jordan Coblin
M.Sc
Founding ML Engineer, Upside Robotics

Junkai Ren
Visiting Student
M.Sc Technical University of Munich
Daniel Plop
Visiting Student
Taapas Agrawal
Visiting Student
Francesco Zanini
Visiting Student
Katya Kudashkina
Visiting Student
Senior Director, AI and Machine Learning, Dayforce
Taapas Agrawal
Visiting Student
Software Engineer, Cisco

Yuxin Liu
Research Assistants
Supervisor: Rich Sutton and Lili Mou
Robert Joseph George
Research Assistants
Supervisor: Martha White and Adam White