Hugo Larochelle
Principal Scientist, Google DeepMind
Google Canada
Hugo Larochelle is a Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind’s Montreal office, specializing in deep
learning. His extensive research covers unsupervised pretraining with autoencoders, denoising
autoencoders, visual attention-based classification, neural autoregressive distribution models,
and zero-shot learning. Hugo’s interests extend to applying deep learning in natural language
processing, code, computer vision, and environmental sustainability.
Schedule
20 mins
St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts - Bluma Appel Theatre
Purpose-Driven AI Innovation
AI promises extraordinary breakthroughs that can improve billions of lives. In order to harness it, we must do so boldly, while being responsible from the start. Join this keynote session, as we dive into the transformational AI research being done by Google DeepMind, both in Canada and across the world, to help address some of our most complex and pressing societal challenges.