Raymond Chua
Scientific Communicator
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRaymond 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
1 year of employment as a software developer
Brains, Minds, and Machines (BMM) summer course, Brains, Minds, and Machines (BMM) summer course at Center for Brains, Minds, and MachinesResearch visit, Research visit at University of BernBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of AdelaideMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Technical University of MunichDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at McGill UniversityResearch visit, Research visit at University of Bristol
English, Chinese, German, French
Github Skills (128)
gymnasium10
mahjong10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
q-learning10
platform-independent10
reinforcement-learning10
maze10
grid-world10
grid10
mujoco10
markdown9
airsim9
control-systems9
simulator9
crf9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
raymondchua/dqn
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:194 commits, 259 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
raymondchua/gym-minigrid
Oct 2019 - Mar 2022
Minimalistic gridworld package for OpenAI Gym
Contributions:4 PRs, 88 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
gridworldreinforcement-learningopenaiminimalisticgym
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