Dr. Joelle Pineau is Chief AI Officer at the Canadian AI firm Cohere, where she leads efforts to make its software more traceable and secure for enterprise and public sector clients. Previously, she served as Vice President of AI research at Meta, leading its Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team.
An influential voice on reproducibility, open science and ethical frameworks in AI, Dr. Pineau is also a professor and William Dawson Scholar at McGill University, a core academic member of Mila, the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair. Her research focuses on developing and applying new models and algorithms to complex problems in robotics, health care, games and conversational agents.
Dr. Pineau pioneered the development of algorithms to handle a special set of mathematical problems wherein decision-makers are presented with multiple choices over time without knowing the full context. The ability to handle these so-called Markov processes is at the core of machine learning; her work stands as a foundation for several AI advances seen today.
Dr. Pineau holds a BASc in engineering from the University of Waterloo and an MSc and PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University.
A distinguished AI scholar, Dr. Pineau is a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), a senior fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and the recipient of numerous academic awards. She is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Machine Learning Research and the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.