Sarath Chandar

Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Canada Research Chair in Lifelong Machine Learning

Associate Professor
Department of Computer and Software Engineering
École Polytechnique de Montréal

Core faculty member
Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute

Email: fname [DOT] lname [AT] mila [DOT] quebec

About Me:

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Software Engineering at Polytechnique Montreal where I lead the Chandar Research Lab (CRL). I hold a Canada CIFAR AI (CCAI) chair and the Canada Research Chair in Lifelong Machine Learning. I am a core faculty member at Mila - the Quebec AI Institute.

I am also an adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at University of Montreal and in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

I work in machine learning and my long-term vision is to develop interactive learning algorithms that can continually learn from experiences.

I created the Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs) in 2022.

You can find my short bio here.

Research Areas:

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Recurrent Neural Networks, Lifelong/Continual Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Natural Language Processing, Optimization, AI for Science.

Education:

Ph.D. from University of Montreal with Yoshua Bengio and Hugo Larochelle.

MS by Research from Indian Institute of Technology Madras with Balaraman Ravindran.