Group

I lead a research group developing algorithms for more efficient foundation model training as well as trustworthiness. Recent focus of the team includes, among others, communication-efficient pre-training, continual learning and adaptation, and learned optimization.

PhD Students

• Pietro Cagnasso
• 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

• Xialong Huang

Postdocs

• Geraldin Nanfack

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

• Abhinav Moudgil — PhD 2026 (now Research Scientist at Meta)
• Kaly Zhang — Postdoc (now Assistant Professor at Queen's University)
• Zafir Khalid — MSc 2026 (now Software Developer at Intuit)
• Reza Davari — PhD 2025 (now Research Scientist at Microsoft)
• Paria Mehrbod — MSc 2025
• 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 Covenant AI)
• Adeetya Patel — MSc 2023 (now RA at McGill University)
• Medric Sonwa — MSc 2023 (now Data Scientist at ONMO)
• Muawiz Chaudhary — MSc 2023 (now Founding Engineer at Guide Labs)
• 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)