Canada CIFAR AI Chairs
TOP TALENT
Canada is recruiting and retaining top AI research talent.
The Canada CIFAR AI Chairs program is the cornerstone of the CIFAR Pan-Canadian AI Strategy. A total of $86.5 million has been earmarked for this program.
Its goal is to recruit the world’s leading AI researchers to Canada, while retaining our existing top talent. The program provides long-term, dedicated research funding to support their research programs and help them train the next generation of AI leaders.
There are 109 Canada CIFAR AI Chairs advancing research in a range of fundamental and applied AI topics from drug discovery and machine learning for health, autonomous vehicles, materials discovery, human-AI interaction, natural language prediction, and more. They are based at Canada's three AI Institutes: Amii in Edmonton, Mila in Montreal, and Vector Institute in Toronto.
Meet the #RealBrains Behind AI
The Brains Behind AI is a 10-part video series that provides a behind-the-scenes look at some of Canada’s most talented researchers in artificial intelligence, what areas of research they are focusing on over the next five years as Canada CIFAR AI Chairs and CIFAR fellows, and what motivates them to pursue research in a variety of areas that will transform the way we live and work.
Canada CIFAR AI Chairs
Aishwarya Agrawal
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Mila
Université de Montréal
Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Lebovic Fellow
Pan-Canadian AI Strategy
Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Alona Fyshe
Fellow
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar 2016-2018
Pan-Canadian AI Strategy
University of Alberta
Angel Chang
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Simon Fraser University Technical
University of Munich
Anna Goldenberg
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Lebovic Fellow
Pan-Canadian AI Strategy
University of Toronto
Vector Institute
Blake Richards
Fellow
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Pan-Canadian AI Strategy
Mila
Courtney Paquette
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
McGill University
Mila
Csaba Szepesvari
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
DeepMind
University of Alberta
Dale Schuurmans
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Google Brain
University of Alberta
Danica J. Sutherland
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
University of British Columbia
David Duvenaud
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Vector Institute
Doina Precup
Fellow
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Pan-Canadian AI Strategy
McGill University
Mila
Dzmitry Bahdanau
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Mila
ServiceNow Element AI
Eilif B. Muller
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Mila
Université de Montréal
Golnoosh Farnadi
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Mila
Université de Montréal
Graham Taylor
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar 2016-2018
Pan-Canadian AI Strategy
Vector Institute
Guillaume Rabusseau
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Université de Montréal
Hugo Larochelle
Associate Fellow
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Pan-Canadian AI Strategy
Mila
Université de Montréal
James Wright
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Google Brain
University of Alberta
Jian Tang
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Mila
Université de Montréal
Joelle Pineau
Advisor
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Pan-Canadian AI Strategy
McGill University
Mila
Kevin Leyton-Brown
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
University of British Columbia
Laurent Charlin
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Mila
Université de Montréal
Levi H. S. Lelis
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Universidade Federal de Viçosa in Brazil
University of Alberta
Marc G. Bellemare
Associate Fellow
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Pan-Canadian AI Strategy
McGill University
Mila
Marc-Antoine Dilhac
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Université de Montréal
Mark Schmidt
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
ElementAI
University of British Columbia
Marzyeh Ghassemi
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar 2020-2022
Pan-Canadian AI Strategy
Vector Institute
Matthew Taylor
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
University of Alberta
Washington State University
Michael Bowling
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
DeepMind
University of Alberta
Michael Brudno
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
University of Toronto
Vector Institute
Mijung Park
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
University of British Columbia
Mo Chen
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
NSERC Canadian Robotics Network
Simon Fraser University
Nathan Sturtevant
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
University of Alberta
University of Denver
Pascal Vincent
Associate Fellow
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Pan-Canadian AI Strategy
Université de Montréal
Patrick M. Pilarski
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
DeepMind
University of Alberta
Rahul G. Krishnan
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Vector Institute
Richard S. Sutton
Associate Fellow
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Pan-Canadian AI Strategy
DeepMind
University of Alberta
Richard Zemel
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Vector Institute
Roger Grosse
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
University of Toronto; Vector Institute faculty member
Samira Ebrahimi Kahou
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
McGill University
Mila
Simon Lacoste-Julien
Associate Director
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Pan-Canadian AI Strategy
Samsung SAIT AI Lab in Montreal
Université de Montréal
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