Joelle Pineau

Joelle Pineau

Joelle Pineau

Head of Facebook AI Facebook Research Lab William Dawson Scholar and Co-Director, Reasoning and Learning Lab, McGill University; Canada CIFAR AI Chair

Bio

Joelle Pineau is a William Dawson Scholar and Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at McGill University. Dr. Pineau’s research focuses on developing new models and algorithms that allow computers to learn to make good decisions in complex real-world domains, even in circumstances where there is incomplete or incorrect information. She also works on applying these algorithms to problems in robotics and health care. Dr. Pineau is a Senior Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and a Member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists in the Royal Society of Canada