Francois Rivest

Full Professor, Royal Military College of Canada
Cross-Appointed, Queens University
Joined
February 2020

Names

Francois Rivest (Preferred)
, 
François Rivest

Emails

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

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Full Professor
Royal Military College of Canada (rmcc-cmrc.ca)
2023 – Present
Cross-Appointed
Queens University (queensu.ca)
2011 – Present
Associate Professor
Royal Military College of Canada (rmcc-cmrc.ca)
2015 – 2023
Assistant Professor
Royal Military College of Canada (rmcc-cmrc.ca)
2010 – 2015
PhD student
University of Montreal (umontreal.ca)
2002 – 2010
MS student
McGill University (mcgill.ca)
2000 – 2002
Undergrad student
McGill University (mcgill.ca)
1996 – 2000

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor
Sarath Chandar
2024 – Present
Coauthor
Ali Etemad
2020 – 2022
Coauthor
Jean Berger
2018 – 2020
Coauthor
Eduardo Alonso
2013 – 2019
Coauthor
Andre Luzardo
2011 – 2018
Coauthor
Elliot A Ludvig
2011 – 2018
Coauthor
Patrick Simen
2011 – 2015
PhD Advisor
Yoshua Bengio
2002 – 2010
PhD Advisor
John F Kalaska
2002 – 2010

Expertise

RNNs
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LSTM
2010 – 2020
Reinforcement Learning
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Deep Reinforcement Learning
2003 – 2020
Neural Networks
2000 – 2020
Mathematical Psychology
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Interval Timing
2000 – 2020
Dopamine
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Computational Models
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Conditioning
2005 – 2015
Knowledge Transfer
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Multitask Learning
2000 – 2007

Publications

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Co-Authors

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