Reinforcement Learning Conference @rl-conference.bsky.social Information and updates about RLC 2026 at Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from August 15 to 18.
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Pierre-Yves Oudeyer @pyoudeyer.bsky.social Research director @Inria, Head of @flowersInria
lab, prev. @MSFTResearch @SonyCSLParis
Artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, sciences of curiosity, language, self-organization, autotelic agents, education, AI and society
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Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social Professor at UT Nuremberg, Germany
I’m 🇫🇷 and I work on RL and lifelong learning. Mostly posting on ML related topics.
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
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Chris J. Maddison @cmaddis.bsky.social Asst. Prof. in Machine Learning at UofT. #LongCOVID patient.
https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~cmaddis/
Brokoslaw Laschowski @drlaschowski.bsky.social Assistant Professor at University of Toronto. Director of Machine Intelligence Lab. Research in neural networks and learning systems.
https://discover.research.utoronto.ca/33310-brokoslaw-laschowski/
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Ishan Durugkar @idurugkar.bsky.social Reinforcement learning researcher, dabbled in robotics, and generative techniques that were later made out of date by diffusion. Currently at Sony AI, working on game AI
Eric J. Earley, PhD @handle.invalid I turn humans into cyborgs 🦾🦿
Assistant Research Prof | CU Anschutz
Leadership Team | ComSciCon
Serial dabbler
he/him
www.ericjearley.com
danilobzdok @danilobzdok.bsky.social Research director | @McGillU @Mila_Quebec @IVADO_Qc | My team designs machine learning frameworks to understand biological systems from new angles of attack
Jan Dubiński @jandubinski.bsky.social PhD student in Machine Learning @Warsaw University of Technology and @IDEAS NCBR
Abhishek Naik @abhisheknaik96.bsky.social PhD graduate in reinforcement learning from the University of Alberta. Now, RL research in space! 🚀🛰️
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Zaheen Ahmad @zaheenfa.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of Alberta. Research in AI: search, games, reinforcement learning.
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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com Assistant Prof of CS at NYU Courant. Co-EiC of TMLR. My group is The Salon. Privacy, robustness, machine learning.
http://www.gautamkamath.com
Freda Shi @fredashi.bsky.social Assistant Professor & Canada CIFAR AI Chair, University of Waterloo & Vector Institute | Excited about "grounding" in any form | Feeder of 2 🐈 | 🏸, 🏐, 🏂 | she/her
Victor Zhong @vzhong.bsky.social Assistant Prof at University of Waterloo, CIFAR AI Chair at Vector Institute. Formerly UWNLP, Stanford NLP, MSR, FAIR, Google Brain, Salesforce Research via MetaMind
#machinelearning, #nlp
victorzhong.com
Alán Aspuru-Guzik @aspuru.bsky.social Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science
University of Toronto
Faculty member, Vector Institute
Director, Acceleration Consortium
Senior Director of Quantum Chemistry NVIDIA
My views expressed here are personal and are not those of my employers.
Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social Working towards the safe development of AI for the benefit of all at Université de Montréal, LawZero and Mila.
A.M. Turing Award Recipient and most-cited AI researcher.
https://lawzero.org/en
https://yoshuabengio.org/profile/
Glen Berseth @glenberseth.bsky.social Associate Prof at @umontreal-en.bsky.social @mila-quebec.bsky.social @MontrealRobots
. CIFAR AI Chair, @RL_Conference chair. Creating generalist problem-solving agents for the real world. He/him/il.
Michael Bowling @michaelhbowling.bsky.social Professor of Computing Science at the University of Alberta. Interested in AI, reinforcement learning, and games of all sorts.
Sarath Chandar @sarath-chandar.bsky.social Associate Professor at Polytechnique Montreal and Mila.
Jeff Clune @jeffclune.com Professor, Computer Science, University of British Columbia. CIFAR AI Chair, Vector Institute. Senior Advisor, DeepMind. ML, AI, deep RL, deep learning, AI-Generating Algorithms (AI-GAs), open-endedness. 
Audrey Durand @audurand.bsky.social Associate professor @ Université Laval - IID - Mila
Interested in reinforcement learning, bandits, partial monitoring, active learning, ... anything that learns by getting its own data from the environment!
David Duvenaud @davidduvenaud.bsky.social Machine learning prof at U Toronto. Working on evals and AGI governance.
Murat A. Erdogdu @erdog.bsky.social Professor at University of Toronto. Research on machine learning, optimization, and statistics.
Christian Gagné @cgagne.bsky.social Professor at Université Laval - IID - Mila | Machine Learning Researcher
https://christiangagne.net
Gillian Hadfield @ghadfield.bsky.social Economist and legal scholar turned AI researcher focused on AI alignment and governance. Prof of government and policy and computer science at Johns Hopkins where I run the Normativity Lab. Recruiting CS postdocs and PhD students. gillianhadfield.org
Rahul G. Krishnan @rahulgk.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto
⚒️ 🏥 Deep learning and causal inference for computational medicine
Guillaume Lajoie @glajoie.bsky.social Professor at Université de Montréal & Mila -- Québec AI Institute
mathematics - neuroscience - artificial intelligence
Levi Lelis @programsynthesis.bsky.social Associate Professor - University of Alberta
Canada CIFAR AI Chair with Amii
Machine Learning and Program Synthesis
he/him; ele/dele 🇨🇦 🇧🇷
https://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~santanad
Eilif B. Muller @neuralensemble.bsky.social A leading cause of In Silico #Neuroscience world-wide since 2010
https://neuro.plasticit.ai
Nicolas Papernot @nicolaspapernot.bsky.social Security and Privacy of Machine Learning at UofT, Vector Institute, and Google 🇨🇦🇫🇷🇪🇺 Co-Director of Canadian AI Safety Institute (CAISI) Research Program at CIFAR. Opinions mine
Reihaneh Rabbany @reirab.com CS Faculty at Mila and McGill, interested in Graphs and Complex Data, AI/ML, Misinformation, Computational Social Science and Online Safety
Siva Reddy @sivareddyg.bsky.social Assistant Professor @Mila-Quebec.bsky.social
Co-Director @McGill-NLP.bsky.social
Researcher @ServiceNow.bsky.social
Alumni: @StanfordNLP.bsky.social, EdinburghNLP
Natural Language Processor #NLProc
Catherine Regis @catherineregis.bsky.social Law professor at Université de Montréal, Canada CIFAR Chair in AI and Human Rights, Canada research chair in Health Law and Policy, Academic Member at Mila, Director of social innovation and international policy at IVADO
Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social Researcher at Google and CIFAR Fellow, working on the intersection of machine learning and neuroscience in Montréal (academic affiliations: @mcgill.ca and @mila-quebec.bsky.social).
Geoffrey Rockwell @grockwel.bsky.social Philosophy and Digital Humanities at the U of Alberta
David Rolnick @drolnick.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Computer Science, McGill University /
Mila Quebec AI Institute. Co-Founder and Chair, Climate Change AI. MIT Tech Review "Innovator Under 35". he/him/his
Bo Wang @bowang87.bsky.social Chief AI Officer @ UHN; Assistant Prof. @ U of Toronto; CIFAR AI Chair @ Vector Institute; AI & Biology
Danica Sutherland @djsutherland.ml machine learning asst prof at @cs.ubc.ca and amii
statistical testing, kernels, learning theory, graphs, active learning…
she/her, 🏳️⚧️, @queerinai.com
Csaba Szepesvari @skiandsolve.bsky.social ⛷️ ML Theorist carving equations and mountain trails | 🚴♂️ Biker, Climber, Adventurer | 🧠 Reinforcement Learning: Always seeking higher peaks, steeper walls and better policies.
https://ualberta.ca/~szepesva
Jian Tang @tangjian.bsky.social Associate Professor at Mila. Working on Generative AI, Geometric Deep Learning for Protein Design, Multiomics
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The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com 
Dan Roy @roydanroy.bsky.social Research Director, Founding Faculty, Canada CIFAR AI Chair @VectorInst.
Full Prof @UofT - Statistics and Computer Sci. (x-appt) danroy.org
I study assumption-free prediction and decision making under uncertainty, with inference emerging from optimality.
Veronica Chelu @veronicachelu.bsky.social postdoc • neuroscience, psychedelics, RL & decision-making, ML @ McGill University / MILA Quebec AI Institute
•past Google DeepMind London / Montreal
https://veronicachelu.github.io
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•meditation enthusiast
•yogi/200h RYT
•handbalancer/contortionist
Alex Lewandowski @alexlewandowski.bsky.social PhD candidate studying learning algorithms- E Esra'a Saleh @esraasaleh.bsky.social Research in AI / ML / RL @Mila_Quebec / @UMontreal, formerly research @Ualberta, @AmiiThinks, @rlai_lab
Sara Hooker @sarahooker.bsky.social I lead Cohere For AI. Formerly Research
Google Brain. ML Efficiency, LLMs,
@trustworthy_ml.
Russ Salakhutdinov @rsalakhu.bsky.social VP of Research, GenAI @ Meta (Multimodal LLMs, AI Agents), UPMC Professor of Computer Science at CMU, ex-Director of AI research at @Apple, co-founder Perceptual Machines (acquired by Apple)
Kris D. @kris.pengy.ca Research Fellow @ http://openmindresearch.org interested in AI, robotics, and penguins—dabbles with game development, pixel art, speedrunning, and speedcubing.
http://kris.pengy.ca 🐧
Marlos C. Machado @marloscmachado.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta. Amii Fellow, Canada CIFAR AI chair. ML researcher. All things reinforcement learning. Photo by Ampersand Grey.
📍 Edmonton, Canada 🇨🇦
🔗 https://mcmachado.github.io/
🗓️ Joined November, 2024
Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social Associate professor @ University of Alberta and Canada CIFAR AI Chair @ Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute.
Games, machine learning, and creativity | he/him
Alona Fyshe @alonaf.bsky.social Associate prof @ UAlberta (CS and Psychology) studying language and semantic representations in the brain. TED speaker
Tom Schaul @schaul.bsky.social RL researcher at DeepMind
https://schaul.site44.com/ 🇱🇺
Shibhansh Dohare @shibhansh.bsky.social AI researcher at University of Alberta.
https://shibhansh.github.io/
Khurram Javed @khurramjaved.com Working on scalable and decentralized algorithms for real-time reinforcement learning. Research scientist @ Keen AGI
Prev - PhD with Richard S. Sutton
Craig Sherstan @craigsherstan.bsky.social AI Research Scientist - Reinforcement Learning.
Tokyo based.
Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social Primarily Robotics and AI. Distinguishing hype-notism from plausibility one press release at a time. rodneybrooks.com/blog people.csail.mit.edu/brooks
Satinder Singh Baveja @satindersingh.bsky.social Research Scientist at Google DeepMind and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. Interested in Reinforcement Learning and Artificial Intelligence. 
Katja Hofmann @katjahofmann.bsky.social At Microsoft Research. Lead of https://aka.ms/game-intelligence - we drive innovation in machine learning with applications in games. https://iclr.cc Board.
Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social Large-Scale Robot Decision Making @GoogleDeepMind European @ELLISforEurope - imitation interaction transfer - priors: @oxfordrobots @berkeley_ai @ETH @MIT
Alexandre Moufarek 🔜 GDC 🎮 @amoufarek.bsky.social Group PM, AI Research @GoogleDeepMind | Gemini | Project Astra | SIMA | Genie
Formerly with Ubisoft (Ghost Recon, Watch Dogs) and Softbank Robotics (Pepper)
Karl Tuyls @karltuyls.bsky.social Research Scientist, Entrepreneur - Ex: Team Lead @ DeepMind and
@GoogleDeepMind. Also CS professor (Liverpool/Leuven) and LFC fan.
Piotr Mirowski @piotrmirowski.bsky.social Research scientist in machine learning at Google DeepMind, theatre director and co-founder of Improbotics, visiting researcher at Goldsmiths. Ex-Bell Labs, Microsoft, PhD at NYU. Work in AI for weather and climate & AI for artistic creativity. he/him.
Amir-massoud Farahmand @sologen.bsky.social Research Goal: Understanding the computational and statistical principles required to design AI/RL agents.
Associate Professor at Polytechnique Montréal and Mila. 🇨🇦
academic.sologen.net
Alex Kearney @alexkearney.com Building the behavior engine for games @ Artificial.Agency • fmr RS DeepMind • Really like the #indieweb really like #YEG • can’t do a kickflip
kongaloosh.com
Steve Collins @stevecollins.bsky.social Stanford professor studying biomechanics, robotics, and design. I think a lot about how we design exoskeletons to improve human mobility. Also how we help students become good engineers. #Sci‘Sky. biomechatronics.stanford.edu
MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory @csail.mit.edu MIT's Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Media Inquiries: rachelg@csail.mit.edu
He (Helen) Huang @helenhuang.bsky.social Wolfpack and Tar Heels. Prof in BME. Robotic prostheses and exoskeletons. Neural-machine interface. Mom of Two. Lab website https://nrel.bme.unc.edu
Editor-in-Chief of IEEE TNSRE https://www.embs.org/tnsre/
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Sonny Jones @sonny-jones.bsky.social Graduate Research Assistant @ NERVES Lab
BME PhD student @ UofU
RL, Rehabilitative Robotics 🤖🦿
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