Scholar
Irina Rish
Google Scholar ID: Avse5gIAAAAJ
University of Montreal / Mila -Quebec AI Institute
Citations & Impact
Citations
11,350
H-index
39
i10-index
91
Publications
20
Co-authors
23
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Holds 64 patents
- Authored over 170 research papers
- Contributed to several book chapters and edited three books
- Published a monograph on Sparse Modeling
- Recipient of IBM Eminence & Excellence Award (2018)
- IBM Outstanding Innovation Award (2018)
- IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (2017)
- IBM Research Accomplishment Award (2009)
Background
- Full Professor at Université de Montréal (UdeM), leading the Autonomous AI Lab
- Core faculty member at MILA - Quebec AI Institute
- Holder of a Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) and a CIFAR Chair
- Research interests include automated reasoning, probabilistic inference in graphical models, machine learning, sparse modeling, and neuroscience-inspired AI
- Recent work focuses on continual learning, robustness, model compression, and scaling behaviors in foundation models across language, vision, and time series
- Co-founder of Nolano.ai, a startup building high-performing, resource-efficient compressed foundation models with fast inference
