Aaron Courville (MILA)
Aaron Courville is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research (DIRO) at Université de Montréal. Courville was an early contributor to deep learning: he is a founding member of Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, a fellow in CIFAR’s Learning in Machines & Brains program and, with Ian Goodfellow and Yoshua Bengio, co-wrote the seminal textbook on deep learning.His current research focuses on the development of deep learning models and methods. He is particularly interested in reinforcement learning, deep generative models and multimodal ML, as well as their applications, such as computer vision and natural language processing.Courville holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair and a Canada Research Chair in Learning Representations that Generalize Systematically.
Eric Kaplan (Operation hope)
Eric Kaplan, a seasoned expert in housing finance and consumer advocacy, joins Financial Literacy for All (FL4A) as EVP, bringing 30 years of experience. Formerly with the Milken Institute, Kaplan led housing finance initiatives and advised stakeholders in government, private, and nonprofit sectors to promote inclusive finance systems. He has also served on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Consumer Advisory Board and spearheaded mortgage-backed securities reform, notably through roles with the U.S. Treasury Department.
Kaplan serves on multiple boards, including Kroll Bond Rating Agency and MISMO. With degrees from Princeton and Boston University School of Law, his career spans legal practice and impactful financial advocacy, aligning closely with FL4A's mission of empowering financial literacy.
Andreea Bobu (MIT)
Andreea Bobu is an Assistant Professor at MIT in AeroAstro and CSAIL, leading the Collaborative Learning and Autonomy Research Lab (CLEAR Lab). Her research focuses on developing autonomous agents that collaborate seamlessly with people by aligning behaviors to human expectations. Through experiments with AI systems like assistive robots and LLMs, she addresses data supervision, shared task representation, and misalignment in human-robot interaction. Andreea earned her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley with Anca Dragan and previously worked as a Research Scientist at the AI Institute.
Danny Gray
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Y-Lan Boureau ( NYU)
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Felix is an AI researcher and entrepreneur, completing his PhD in computational cognitive science at Harvard and the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines (MIT). They work on formal analysis of learning algorithms based on program synthesis and programming languages, and hold visiting researcher status at Google DeepMind.