Sarath Chandar is an Associate Professor at Polytechnique Montreal where he leads the Chandar Research Lab. He is also a core faculty member at Mila, the Quebec AI Institute. Sarath holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair and the Canada Research Chair in Lifelong Machine Learning. His research interests include lifelong learning, deep learning, optimization, reinforcement learning, and natural language processing. To promote research in lifelong learning, Sarath created the Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs) in 2022 and served as a program chair for 2022 and 2023. He received his PhD from the University of Montreal and MS by research from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. 

Webpage: http://sarathchandar.in/.