Riashat Islam
Riashat Islam
Senior Researcher, AI Frontiers, Microsoft Research
Joined
June 2017
Names
Emails
****@mail.mcgill.ca (Confirmed)
****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
****@dreamfold.ai (Confirmed)
****@microsoft.com (Confirmed)
Personal Links
Career & Education History
Senior Researcher
AI Frontiers, Microsoft Research (microsoft.com)
2025 – Present
Researcher
Saudi Data and AI Authority, Saudi Data and AI Authority (sdaia.gov.sa)
2023 – 2025
Researcher
DreamFold AI (dreamfold.ai)
2022 – 2023
PhD student
Computer Science, Mila - Quebec AI Institute (mcgill.ca)
2017 – 2022
MS student
Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge (cam.ac.uk)
2015 – 2017
Undergrad student
Computer Science, University College London, University of London (ucl.ac.uk)
2011 – 2015
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
Expertise
Reasoning and RL
2025 – Present
LLM Fine-Tuning
2024 – Present
LLM Safety and Post-Training
2024 – Present
Representation Learning
2024 – Present
Reinforcement Learning
2017 – Present
Probabilistic and Bayesian Method
2016 – Present
Deep Learning
2015 – Present
Publications
Co-Authors
- Aaron C. Courville
- Abdelhak Lemkhenter
- Akshay Krishnamurthy
- Alesia Ivanova
- Alessandro Sordoni
- Alex Lamb
- Alex M. Lamb
- Alexander Tong
- Alexandre Lacoste
- Alexi Gladstone
- Andre Cianflone
- Aniket Rajiv Didolkar
- Animesh Garg
- Anirudh Goyal
- Anurag Koul
- Arash Tavakoli
- Azmine Toushik Wasi
- Baigui Sun
- Ben Evans
- Bogdan Mazoure
- Byron Xu
- Charles London
- Chen Liu
- Cheng-Hao Liu
- Chin-Wei Huang