Professional Experience:

❖ Google Brain with Noam Shazeer – Research internship, Mountain View office (remotely).

- Large scale language models, language generation and retrieval.

❖ Google AI – NLP branch, Research Internship, Googleplex (Mountain-View):

- Builtan End-to-end Neural Conversational Model for Google Assistant – Shopping

o Imagined & pitched the project, organized data collection, Implemented and iterated on the models. Got very promising results.

- Also built a salient term representation learning system building on BERT, for conversational shopping assistants.

❖ Huawei AI Research – NLP Team, Research Internship:

- Worked on improving Generative Adversarial models for Text.

- Worked on Unsupervised Translation and adversarial losses in the context of text generation.

❖ Autodesk Research, Applied Research Internship:

- Delivered a solution: 3D Deep Learning Computer Vision: Semantic Segmentation in 3D Point Cloud Scenes, exploiting the sparsity of 3D space.

Prizes:

❖ CSGames 2015: First place in machine learning, Second place in classical AI and Third place in parallelism. (One podium for each category I was in.)

❖ First place, Fighting Fake News with AI competition by ElementAI. Made the mainstream press.

Publications:

❖ “SALSA-TEXT: Self-Attentive Latent Space-Based Adversarial Text Generation”, Canadian Conference on AI 2018, Jules Gagnon-Marchand, Hamed Sadeghi, Md. Akmal Haidar, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh.

❖ “Monitoring Neuromotricity Online: A Cloud Computing Approach”, 17th Conf. of the International Graphonomics Society, 2015, by Olivier Lefebvre, Pau Riba, Jules Gagnon-Marchand, Charles Fournier, Alicia Fornes, Josep Llados, Réjean Plamondon:

Algorithms were previously developed for extracting lognormal parameters that describe handwriting movements. The study of the evolution of these parameters over different periods of time allows the monitoring changes in a user’s neuromotor skills. We explore cloud-based approaches for this purpose.

Talks Given:

❖ @ Mila “A Review of Dense Passage Retrieval forOpen Domain NLP” (2021)

❖ @ Mila “A Review of Non-MLE-Based TextGeneration Approaches” (2021)

❖ @ Google AI: “Conversational Shopping Assistant” (2019) Slides here.

❖ @ Google AI, for the ShopTalk group: “GANs, GAN Stability, Conditional GANs and Cycle GAN” (2019)

❖ “Latent Space Based Text Generation Using Attention Models” (2018), Chosen to represent Huawei Research Montreal at the Natural Language Processing Workshop for Yoshua Bengio’s MILA Sponsors and Partners, http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/2018/Langue18/progNLP_en.html

❖ @ Huawei Research: “Spectral Normalization: The State of the Art in GAN Stabilization” (2018)

❖ @ Autodesk Research: “Deep Learning for Semantic Segmentation of 3D Scenes” (2017)

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