Gauthier Gidel
Gauthier Gidel
Pronouns: he/him
Associate Professor, Computer Science and Operational Research, Université de Montréal
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Operational Research, University of Montreal
Assistant Professor, Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute
- Joined October 2017
Names
Emails
****@inria.fr (Confirmed)
, ****@umontreal.ca (Confirmed)
, ****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
, ****@mila.quebec (Confirmed)
Personal Links
Career & Education History
Associate Professor
Computer Science and Operational Research, Université de Montréal (umontreal.ca)
2025 – Present
Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Operational Research, University of Montreal (umontreal.ca)
2020 – 2025
Assistant Professor
Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute (mila.quebec)
2020 – 2025
Research intern
Google (google.com)
2019 – 2020
PhD student
University of Montreal (umontreal.ca)
2017 – 2020
Research intern
Element AI (elementai.com)
2019 – 2019
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
PhD Advisor
Simon Lacoste-Julien
2017 – 2020
Expertise
Optimization, non-convex
Present
Optimization, generalization, implicit regularization
Present
Optimization, saddle point
Present
Optimization, generative modeling
Present
Game theory
Present
Adversarial examples
Present
Generative Models
Present
Generative Flow Networks
Present
Robustness of LLM safety alignment
Present
safety
Present
soft reinforcement learning
Present
multi agent RL
Present
cooperative AI
Present