Hugo Larochelle

I am a Principal Scientist in the Google DeepMind team in Montreal. My main area of expertise is deep learning. My previous work includes unsupervised pretraining with autoencoders, denoising autoencoders, visual attention-based classification, neural autoregressive distribution models and zero-shot learning. More broadly, I’m interested in applications of deep learning to natural language processing, code, computer vision and environmental sustainability problems.

Previously, I was Associate Professor at the Université de Sherbrooke (UdeS). I also co-founded Whetlab, which was acquired in 2015 by Twitter, where I then worked as a Research Scientist in the Twitter Cortex group. From 2009 to 2011, I was also a member of the machine learning group at the University of Toronto, as a postdoctoral fellow under the supervision of Geoffrey Hinton. I obtained my Ph.D. at the Université de Montréal, under the supervision of Yoshua Bengio.

My academic involvement includes being a member of the boards for the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) and for the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) conference. I also co-founded the journal Transactions on Machine Learning Research.

Finally, I have a popular online course on deep learning and neural networks, freely accessible on YouTube.