Hugo Larochelle
Scientific Director at Université de Montréal
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolHugo Larochelle is a leading AI researcher and scientific director with over two decades of experience advancing deep learning both in academia and industry. Trained under Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, he helped pioneer methods now central to modern AI—denoising autoencoders, neural autoregressive generative models, and the zero-shot learning concept. After co-founding Whetlab (acquired by Twitter) he led Google’s AI research lab in Montreal and later steered research strategy at Mila, while also teaching thousands of learners through widely used free online courses. He combines hands-on research, startup product experience, and executive leadership with a philanthropic focus on AI for the environment and community mobilization through initiatives like TechAide. Notably, his career bridges foundational theory and practical deployment, influencing both state-of-the-art models and real-world AI adoption.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D Computer Science, Ph.D Computer Science at Université de MontréalPostdoctoral fellow Machine Learning, Postdoctoral fellow Machine Learning at University of TorontoCollégial Sciences Pures, Collégial Sciences Pures at Cégep de Saint-Hyacinthe
Github Skills (8)
machine-learning3
pytorch3
autodiff2
automatic-differentiation2
autograd1
python-client1
python1
latex1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
AmirHooshangi/mlpython
Sep 2011 - Oct 2014
Contributions:21 commits in 3 years 1 month
larocheh/MADE_ICML-use-this-version-now-
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:17 pushes, 24 branches in 4 days
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