Aaron Courville

Accomplishments

• Deep Learning textbook (MIT Press, 2016)¹
• Mila founding member¹
• IVADO scientific director¹

Appointments

Courville is a core academic member of Mila and holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair and a Canada Research Chair in Systematic Generalization. Courville received a PhD from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.¹²

Research and the Deep Learning textbook

Mila lists Courville's research topics as deep learning, generative models, reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems, and representation learning. In 2016 Courville, Ian Goodfellow, and Yoshua Bengio published Deep Learning with MIT Press; the authors keep a free HTML edition at deeplearningbook.org.¹²

Work and contributions

• Deep Learning (MIT Press, 2016) Show, channel or publication

  Co-author with Ian Goodfellow and Yoshua Bengio of the MIT Press textbook Deep Learning.¹²

Honors and recognition

• Canada CIFAR AI Chair · ¹
• Canada Research Chair in Systematic Generalization · ¹

Where they work

• Université de Montréal 4 people in the wiki
• Mila 5 people in the wiki
• IVADO 1 person in the wiki

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