Faisal Mohamed
Student Researcher at Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolFaisal Mohamed is an M.Sc. research student at Mila and Université de Montréal with eight years of experience bridging mechanical engineering, software development, and machine learning research. His work focuses on deep reinforcement learning, optimal control, and probabilistic inference to create efficient learning systems, informed by training from industry experts through the AMMI program. He has held research positions at leading institutions including Max Planck Institute and the University of Tübingen and has taught and mentored at AIMS, demonstrating both academic depth and pedagogical skill. Prior roles as an Android developer and software engineer give him practical systems experience that complements his research, enabling end-to-end thinking from algorithm to implementation. Based in Montreal, he brings a cross-disciplinary perspective—combining control theory, ML research, and hands-on engineering—to tackle challenging decision-making problems.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Research MSc, Computer Science, Research MSc, Computer Science at Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence InstituteResearch MSc, Computer Science, Research MSc, Computer Science at Université de MontréalBachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering at University of KhartoumMaster of Science - MS, Machine Intelligence, Master of Science - MS, Machine Intelligence at African institute for mathematical sciences
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Github Skills (19)
mutual-information7
java6
reinforcement-learning3
machine-learning2
entropy2
fairness-ml2
state-space2
discovery2
correlation2
deep-learning2
information-theory2
meta-learning1
distributions1
representation-learning1
pytorch1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
FaisalAhmed0/SLUSD
Oct 2021 - Apr 2022
Official Implementation of the paper "An Empirical Investigation of Mutual Information Skill Learning"
Contributions:31 commits, 10 PRs, 18 pushes in 6 months
investigationfairness-mldeep-learningmachine-learningmutual
FaisalAhmed0/gym-airsim
May 2020 - Jul 2024
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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