Raymond Chua
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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SeniorRaymond Chua is a researcher bridging AI, computational neuroscience, and reinforcement learning, recently completing a PhD at McGill University conducted at Mila under Doina Precup and Blake Richards. He develops adaptive agents and neuro-inspired models that emphasize continual learning, stable predictive representations, memory consolidation, and mechanistic interpretability, with work presented at NeurIPS and COSYNE. With 12 years of experience across academia and industry, he mentors interns and students, organizes cross-disciplinary workshops, and reviews for top ML conferences. Ray combines mathematical rigor with neuroscience techniques (e.g., representation similarity analyses and cross-attention mechanisms) to build models that generalize in changing environments. Outside the lab he trains for triathlons, a discipline he credits for sustaining long-term focus and resilience in research.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (91)
simulator10
gymnasium10
reinforcement-learning10
grid-world10
airsim9
ai9
platform-independent9
control-systems9
computer-vision9
deep-reinforcement-learning9
3d9
crf9
unreal9
algorithms9
self-driving-car9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
raymondchua/dqn
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:194 commits, 259 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
RileySE/Craftax-Foraging
May 2024 - May 2025
Craftax adapted into a foraging task for NeuroAI research
Contributions:215 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
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