Students
I lead a research group exploring modern, scalable learning systems. We focus on communication-efficient pre-training, robustness to distribution shifts, and learning better optimizers.
- Communication-efficient pre-training (model & data parallelism, privacy, federated heterogeneity)
- Distribution shifts (continual learning, domain adaptation)
- Learned optimizers
PhD Students
- Reza Davari
- Abhinav Moudgil
- Albert Orozco Camacho (co-supervised with Guy Wolf)
- Adel Nabli (co-supervised with Edouard Oyallon)
- Gwen Legate
- Benjamin Therien (co-supervised with Irina Rish)
- Vaibhav Singh
- Paul Janson
- Amirhossein Zamani (co-supervised with Amir Aghdam)
MSc Students
- Paria Mehrbod (co-supervised with Guy Wolf)
- Zafir Khalid
- Xialong Huang
Postdoc
Frequent Collaborators
- Lucas Caccia (McGill)
- Rahaf Aljundi (Toyota Research)
- Boris Knyazev (Samsung Research)
- Guy Wolf (UdeM/Mila)
- Irina Rish (UdeM/Mila)
- Guillaume Lajoie (UdeM/Mila)
- Michael Eickenberg (Flatiron Institute)
- Edouard Oyallon (CNRS)
- Tiberiu Popa (Concordia)
- Aaron Courville (UdeM/Mila)
Alumni
- Congshu Zou — MSc 2025
- Humza Wajid Hameed — MSc 2025
- Nicolas Bernier — MSc 2025 (Now ML at Amazon)
- Charles-Etienne Joseph — MSc 2024 (Now Research engineer at Capital One)
- Alexander Fulleringer — MSc 2024
- Nader Asadi — MSc 2023 (Now ML Researcher at Huawei)
- Nasir Khalid — MSc 2023 (Now ML Researcher at Haven Studios)
- Amir Sarfi — MSc 2023 (Now Researcher at Slyod)
- Adeetya Patel — MSc 2023 (Now RA at McGill University)
- Medric Sonwa — MSc 2023 (Now Data Scientist at ONMO)
- Muawiz Chaudhary — MSc 2023
- Gwen Legate — MSc 2023 (continued to PhD)
- Irene Tenison — MSc 2022 (Now PhD student at MIT)
- Benjamin Therien — NSERC Undergrad Researcher 2021 (Now MSc at University of Waterloo)
- Yu Xiang Zhang — NSERC Undergrad Researcher 2022 (Now Software Engineer at Amazon)
- Boris Knyazev — PhD Intern (Now Research Scientist at Samsung Research)
Sponsors
Our group is generously supported by:
