Hugo Larochelle
Directeur Scientifique at Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolHugo Larochelle is a leading AI researcher and scientific director with over two decades of experience advancing deep learning both in academia and industry. Trained under Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, he helped pioneer methods now central to modern AI—denoising autoencoders, neural autoregressive generative models, and the zero-shot learning concept. After co-founding Whetlab (acquired by Twitter) he led Google’s AI research lab in Montreal and later steered research strategy at Mila, while also teaching thousands of learners through widely used free online courses. He combines hands-on research, startup product experience, and executive leadership with a philanthropic focus on AI for the environment and community mobilization through initiatives like TechAide. Notably, his career bridges foundational theory and practical deployment, influencing both state-of-the-art models and real-world AI adoption.
15 years of coding experience
Ph.D, Sciences informatiques, Ph.D, Sciences informatiques at Université de MontréalChercheur postdoctoral, Apprentissage profond, Chercheur postdoctoral, Apprentissage profond at University of TorontoCollégial, Sciences Pures, Collégial, Sciences Pures at Cégep de Saint-Hyacinthe
Github Skills (5)
latex3
machine-learning2
python-client2
python1
autograd1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
AmirHooshangi/mlpython
Sep 2011 - Oct 2014
Contributions:21 commits in 3 years 1 month
larocheh/MADE_ICML-use-this-version-now-
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:17 pushes, 24 branches in 4 days
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