About
Research Interests
My ultimate research goal is to understand intelligent agents well enough to program an autonomous robot that can adapt to its environment. I am currently focussing on online model-learning in changing environments, particularly using binary context trees for mixture-of-experts meta-learning.
CV as of January 2021
Personal in Brief
Currently I am a Research Developer at Google DeepMind Montréal. Still finishing my PhD with Michael Bowling at the University of Alberta. I have been Managing Director of Applied Science at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (https://amii.ca) and a sessional instructor at Augustana Campus, University of Alberta. With Amii I had the privilege of teaching and leading development on an online specialization at Coursera: Machine Learning: Algorithms in the Real World. The first course is a non-technical introduction to applied machine learning, while the full specialization walks through implementing classification algorithms for real-world applications. I have been supervised by Drs. Michael Bowling, Patrick Pilarski and Dale Schuurmans. I completed my Masters in Computing Science, supervised by Richard S. Sutton, in 2007.
I live in Pointe-Claire, Quebec with my husband Joel (Nature Photographer and Wilderness Guide) and an townhouse stuffed with hobbies.
