Joëlle Pineau

Joëlle Pineau
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Joëlle Pineau speaks at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in 2018
Born1974 (age 50–51)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Awards
Scientific career
Institutions
ThesisTractable Planning Under Uncertainty: Exploiting Structure (2004)
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Joëlle Pineau (born 1974) is a Canadian computer scientist and Associate Professor at McGill University.[1] She is the global Vice President of Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR), now known as Meta AI, and is based in Montreal, Quebec. She was elected to the Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2023.

Early life and education

Pineau was born in 1974 in Ottawa, Ontario.[2] She played the viola in the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra.[2][3] She eventually studied engineering at the University of Waterloo.[4] She completed her postgraduate education in robotics at Carnegie Mellon University in 2004.[4][5] A chapter of Pineau's Masters thesis, Point-based value iteration: An anytime algorithm for POMDPs, has been published and cited almost 1,000 times.[6] Her doctoral thesis, Tractable Planning Under Uncertainty: Exploiting Structure, was supervised by Sebastian Thrun and Geoff Gordon.[7]

Research and career

Pineau develops algorithms and models that allow learning in partially complex domains.[4] She is co-director of McGill University's Reasoning and Learning Lab.[8] She founded two start-ups that develop robotic assistants for the elderly; the SmartWheeler initiative and the Nursebot platform.[9][10] SmartWheeler is a multi-modal wheelchair that combines artificial intelligence and robotics.[11]

She is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and a Senior Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.[4] In 2016 she was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.[12] Pineau investigates approaches to personal medicine, using data from medical charts, X-ray images, clinical notes and lab reports to generate new treatment strategies.[13] She teaches Artificial intelligence how to analyse medical scans.[14] Her team have used Deep learning for detecting seizures.[15] She serves as an editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) and the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR).[16][17] She has given lectures for the Artificial Intelligence Channel.[18] She is a core academic member of Mila Quebec.[19]

In 2017 Pineau was appointed the head of the Facebook AI Research Lab in Montreal.[20] She won a Facebook Research Award.[21] She spoke at the third annual Canada 2020 conference.[22] Here she focuses on reinforcement learning, deep learning, computer vision and video understanding.[20] In 2018 she won the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship.[13] She challenges Artificial intelligence research that is not reproducible.[23] She was the reproducibility chair for the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems in 2019, where she introduced the requirement of a reproducibility checklist as part of the paper submission process.[24] She is president of the International Machine Learning Society.[25][26] In 2019, Pineau received a Governor General's Innovation Award for her leadership in the innovative applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning to the field of personalized medicine.[27][28] She has climbed the ranks within FAIR and is now leading the entire AI research organization at Meta.

Pineau was elected to the Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2023 for her "contributions to research in machine learning, with a focus on Bayesian learning and planning under uncertainty."[29][30]

References

  1. ^ Joëlle Pineau publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b Castonguay, Alec. "Le CV : Joëlle Pineau". L’actualité (in Canadian French). Retrieved July 28, 2018.
  3. ^ "Facebook: Qui est Joëlle Pineau, la femme qui pèse dans le milieu de l'intelligence artificielle?". www.20minutes.fr (in French). July 3, 2018. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  4. ^ a b c d "Joelle Pineau's Home". www.cs.mcgill.ca. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  5. ^ "Bio - Joelle Pineau". CIFAR. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  6. ^ Krause, Alex. "Point-based value iteration: An anytime algorithm for POMDPs". The Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved July 28, 2018.
  7. ^ "Joelle Pineau - The Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University". www.ri.cmu.edu. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  8. ^ "Joëlle Pineau to head new Facebook AI (FAIR) lab in Montreal : McGill Reporter". publications.mcgill.ca. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  9. ^ "Towards Personal Service Robots for the Elderly". www.cs.cmu.edu. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  10. ^ "Nursebot : Towards Personal Service Robots for the Elderly". homes.cs.washington.edu. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  11. ^ "Smart wheelchair gives users more autonomy : McGill Reporter". publications.mcgill.ca. Archived from the original on July 28, 2018. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  12. ^ "The College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists | The Royal Society of Canada". rsc-src.ca. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  13. ^ a b Division, Government of Canada, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Communications (June 28, 2016). "NSERC - E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowships". www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca. Retrieved July 27, 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ BRUEL, Benjamin (June 29, 2018). ""Les machines peuvent être créatives", assure Joëlle Pineau, à la tête du laboratoire FAIR de Facebook à Montréal". Mashable avec France 24 (in French). Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  15. ^ Thodoroff, Pierre (December 10, 2016). "Learning Robust Features using Deep Learning for Automatic Seizure Detection". Machine Learning and Healthcare Conference(2016): 178–190. arXiv:1608.00220. Retrieved December 31, 2016.
  16. ^ "Editorial Team | Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research". www.jair.org. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  17. ^ "JMLR Editorial Board". jmlr.csail.mit.edu. Archived from the original on July 19, 2018. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  18. ^ The Artificial Intelligence Channel (November 11, 2017), Canada's Artificial Intelligence Revolution - Dr. Joelle Pineau, retrieved July 27, 2018
  19. ^ "Joelle Pineau". Mila. Retrieved March 3, 2024.
  20. ^ a b "A conversation with Dr. Joëlle Pineau, head of new FAIR lab in Montreal". Facebook Research. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  21. ^ "Research Award Recipients". Facebook Research. Retrieved July 28, 2018.
  22. ^ Canada 2020 (November 11, 2016), Artificial Intelligence, Made in Canada, retrieved July 27, 2018{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  23. ^ Gershgorn, Dave. "The titans of AI are getting their work double-checked by students". Quartz. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  24. ^ Barber, Gregory (September 16, 2019). "Artificial Intelligence Confronts a 'Reproducibility' Crisis". Wired. Archived from the original on March 29, 2023.
  25. ^ "RE•WORK | Joelle Pineau". www.re-work.co. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  26. ^ "Dr. Joëlle Pineau | The mentor of machines". C2 Montréal. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  27. ^ "A Governor General's Innovation Award for AI Pioneer Joelle Pineau". McGill University. May 13, 2019.
  28. ^ "Dr. Joelle Pineau - Governor General's Innovation Awards". The Governor General of Canada. Retrieved July 18, 2019.
  29. ^ Annual Report 2023 (PDF) (Report). The Royal Society of Canada. 2023. Retrieved March 3, 2024.
  30. ^ "Prof. Joëlle Pineau elected to the Royal Society of Canada". McGill School of Computer Science. September 5, 2023.