Elaine Lau

Researcher, Scale AI

Joined

May 2021

Names

Elaine Lau (Preferred)

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@mail.mcgill.ca (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Researcher

Scale AI (scale.ai)

2024 – Present

MS student

McGill University (mcgill.ca)

2022 – 2024

MS student

Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute (mila.quebec)

2022 – 2024

Undergrad student

McGill University (mcgill.ca)

2017 – 2022

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Doina Precup

2022 – 2025

Coauthor

Emmanuel Bengio

2023 – 2024

Expertise

Reinforcement learning

Present

Generative Models

Present

Large Language Models

Present

NLP

Present

Publications

Evaluating Frontier Agents on End-to-End Investment Banking Workflows
Elaine Lau, Rosemary Wei, Guram Gogia, Ronak Chaudhary, Yi Liu, Saed Qunbar, Hui Wen Goh, Scott Millslagle, Samuel Eshun Danquah, Punit Arani, Ray Epps, Markus Dücker, Abdullah Arif, Asrith Devalaraju, Varsha Sandadi, Haemi Nam, Sahil Bhaiwala, Skyler Wang, Anish Athalye, Jonas Mueller et al. (1 additional authors not shown)
- ICLR 2026 Workshop DATA-FM
- Readers: Everyone
SciPredict: Can LLMs Predict the Outcomes of Scientific Experiments in Natural Sciences?
Udari Madhushani Sehwag, Elaine Lau, Haniyeh Ehsani Oskouie, Shayan Shabihi, Erich Liang, Andrea Sarai Echeverria Toledo, Guillermo A. Mangialardi, Sergio Fonrouge, Ed-Yeremai Hernandez-Cardona, Paula Vergara, Utkarsh Tyagi, Chen Bo Calvin Zhang, Pavi Bhatter, Nicholas E. Johnson, Furong Huang, Ernesto Gabriel Hernández Montoya, Bing Liu
- ICLR 2026 Workshop FM4Science Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Evaluating Frontier Agents on End-to-End Investment Banking Workflows
Elaine Lau, Rosemary Wei, Guram Gogia, Ronak Chaudhary, Yi Liu, Samuel Eshun Danquah, Punit Arani, Ray Epps, Markus Dücker, Abdullah Arif, Asrith Devalaraju, Varsha Sandadi, Scott Millslagle, Haemi Nam, Skyler Wang, Sahil Bhaiwala, Anish Athalye, Jonas Mueller, Francisco Guzmán
- ICLR 2026 Workshop Advances in Financial AI
- Readers: Everyone
Adaptive Guidance Accelerates Reinforcement Learning of Reasoning Models
Vaskar Nath, Elaine Lau, Anisha Gunjal, Manasi Sharma, Nikhil Barhate, Sean M. Hendryx
- NeurIPS 2025 ER Workshop
- Readers: Everyone
Rubrics as Rewards: Reinforcement Learning Beyond Verifiable Domains
Anisha Gunjal, Anthony Wang, Elaine Lau, Vaskar Nath, Yunzhong He, Bing Liu, Sean M. Hendryx
- NeurIPS 2025 ER Workshop
- Readers: Everyone
Adaptive Guidance Accelerates Reinforcement Learning of Reasoning Models
Vaskar Nath, Elaine Lau, Anisha Gunjal, Manasi Sharma, Nikhil Barhate, Sean M. Hendryx
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Rubrics as Rewards: Reinforcement Learning Beyond Verifiable Domains
Anisha Gunjal, Anthony Wang, Elaine Lau, Vaskar Nath, Yunzhong He, Bing Liu, Sean M. Hendryx
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Aligned LLMs Are Not Aligned Browser Agents
Priyanshu Kumar, Elaine Lau, Saranya Vijayakumar, Tu Trinh, Elaine T Chang, Vaughn Robinson, Shuyan Zhou, Matt Fredrikson, Sean M. Hendryx, Summer Yue, Zifan Wang
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
QGFN: Controllable Greediness with Action Values
Elaine Lau, Stephen Zhewen Lu, Ling Pan, Doina Precup, Emmanuel Bengio
- 2nd SPIGM @ ICML Poster
- Readers: Everyone
QGFN: Controllable Greediness with Action Values
Elaine Lau, Stephen Zhewen Lu, Ling Pan, Doina Precup, Emmanuel Bengio
- NeurIPS 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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