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Audrey Durand

Appointment

Canada CIFAR AI Chair

National Program Committee member

Pan-Canadian AI Strategy

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Université Laval

Google Scholar

About

Audrey Durand is a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Mila and an assistant professor in the department of computer science and software engineering and the department of electrical and computer engineering at Université Laval. 

Durand specializes in algorithms that learn through interaction with their environment using reinforcement learning and is particularly interested in leveraging these approaches in health-related applications.

Awards

  • NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship, 2012

Relevant Publications

  • Hogue, S. C., Chen, F., Brassard, G., Lebel, D., Bussières, J. F., Durand, A., & Thibault, M. (2021). Pharmacists’ perceptions of a machine learning model for the identification of atypical medication orders. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

  • Sirois, C., Khoury, R., Durand, A., Deziel, P. L., Bukhtiyarova, O., Chiu, Y., … & Simard, M. (2021). Exploring polypharmacy with artificial intelligence: data analysis protocol. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 21(1), 1-8.

  • Williams, J. J., Nogas, J., Deliu, N., Shaikh, H., Villar, S. S., Durand, A., & Rafferty, A. (2021). Challenges in Statistical Analysis of Data Collected by a Bandit Algorithm: An Empirical Exploration in Applications to Adaptively Randomized Experiments.

  • Hogue, S. C., Chen, F., Brassard, G., Lebel, D., Bussières, J. F., Durand, A., & Thibault, M. (2020). Comparison of pharmacist evaluation of medication orders with predictions of a machine learning model.

  • Lavoie-Cardinal, F., Bilodeau, A., Delmas, C., Parent, M., De Koninck, P., & Durand, A. (2020). MICRA-Net: MICRoscopy Analysis Neural Network to solve detection, classification, and segmentation from a single simple auxiliary task.

Institution

Mila

Université Laval

Department

Computer Science and Software Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Education

  • PhD (Electrical Engineering), Université Laval
  • MSc (Electrical Engineering), Université Laval
  • BSc (Computer Science), Université Laval

Country

Canada

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