The list of student/postdoc collaborators whom I had the opportunity to work with.
Are you interested in joining my group? Please read this first!
Current
Graduate
- Tyler Kastner (PhD Student, CS@U of T; 2022 – Present; Joint with Murat Erdogdu)
- Mete Kemertas (PhD Student, CS@U of T; 2022 – Present; Joint with Allan Jepson)
- Amin Rakhsha (PhD Student, CS@U of T; 2020 – Present)
- Claas Voelcker (PhD Student, CS@U of T; 2020 – Present; Joint with Igor Gilitschenski)
- Avery Ma (PhD Student, CS@U of T; 2018 – Present; Joint with Richard Zemel)
- You?! (PolyMtl; 2025 – Present) [Read here]
Undergraduate
- You?!
Visitors and Interns
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Past
Graduate
- Romina Abachi (MS Student, CS@U of T; 2020 – 2024; Joint with Sheila McIlraith)
Topic: Optimistic Risk-Aware Model-based Reinforcement Learning - Farnam Mansouri (MS Student, CS@U of T; 2020 – 2022; Joint with Murat Erdogdu)
Topic: On the Convergence and Approximation of Policy Gradient Methods for Spectral Measures
Present position: PhD Student at the University of Waterloo - Allen Bao (MScAC Student, CS@U of T; 2021)
Topic: Modern Gameplay Test Automation with Reinforcement Learning
Present position: Sr. Machine Learning Engineer at AMD - Yangchen Pan (PhD Candidate, CS@U of A; Joint with Martha White; 2018 – 2021)
Topic: Improving Sample Efficiency of Online Temporal Difference Learning
Present position: Departmental Lecturer in Machine Learning, Oxford University - Ehsan Mehralian (MS Student, CS@U of T; 2018 – 2020)
Topic: Robust Policy Gradient with Successor Features for Transfer in Reinforcement Learning - Romina Abachi (MS Student, ECE@U of T; 2018 – 2020)
Topic: Policy-Aware Model Learning for Policy Gradient Methods
Present position: PhD student, CS@U of T. - Blanca Miller (Visitor; 2018 – 2019)
Next position: Scientist and educator at Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii)
Present position: PhD student at the University of Alberta - Mohamed Akrout (MScAC Student, U of T, 2018)
Topic: RL for Question-Answering-based Dermatological Diagnosis System
Present position: Research Scientist at Triage - Yangchen Pan (PhD Intern, MERL, 2017)
Topic: RL for PDE Control with High-Dimensional Action Spaces
Next position: PhD Candidate at the University of Alberta
Present position: Departmental Lecturer in Machine Learning, Oxford University - Sepideh Pourazarm (Postdoctoral Researcher, MERL, 2017)
Topic: Random Projection Filter Bank for Time Series Prognosis and Fault Detection
Next position: Senior Data Scientist at Nielsen
Present position: Senior Manager of Data Science & Staff Data Scientist at Walmart Connect - Jordi Grau-Moya (PhD Intern, MERL, 2017)
Topic: Deep Least-Squares Temporal Difference Learning
Next position: Senior Machine Learning Researcher at PROWLER
Present position: Research Scientist at Google DeepMind - De-An Huang (MS Student, CMU, 2014) [Collaborator]
Topic: MaxEnt Inverse RL for Activity Forecasting
Next position: PhD student at Stanford
Present position: Research Scientist at NVIDIA. - Beomjoon Kim (MS Student, McGill, 2013) [Collaborator]
Topic: Accelerating Reinforcement Learning with Demonstration Data
Next position: PhD student at MIT
Present position: Associate Professor at KAIST
Visitors and Interns
- Amarildo Likmeta (from Universita di Bologna and Politecnico di Milano; 2023 Summer)
- Jongmin Lee (from Seoul National University; 2023 Summer)
- Patrick Adjei (from Western University; 2023 Summer – Fall)
- Reginald Chukwuka Molokwu (from University of New Brunswick; 2023 Summer)
- Youssef Mousaaid (PhD Student in Mathematics from University of Ottawa; 2022 May–July)
Undergraduate
- Mark Bedaywi (Undergraduate – DCS@U of T; NSERC USRA Awardee; 2023 February – 2024 August)
- Sophia Abolore (Undergraduate – DCS @ U of T; 2023 Spring – Summer)
- Yash Ramani (Undergraduate – DCS @ U of T; 2023 Winter – Spring)
- Mingjian Jiang (BS Student, CS@U of T; 2022 Summer – Fall)
- Andrew Wang (BS Student, CS@U of T; 2021 Fall – 2022 Fall)
- Aparna Gopalakrishnan (U of T; 2021 Summer)
- Victor Liao (Waterloo; 2021 Summer)
- Qiyao (Ben) Wei (BE Student, ECE@U of T; 2020 Summer – Fall)
- Qi (Simona) Meng (BE Student, ECE@U of T; 2020 Summer – Fall)
Note to my (former) students: If you have a new position or have an updated website, please let me know.
