- Member of the organizing committee for the 'Wordplay: When Language Meets Games' workshops at NeurIPS 2018 and 2020, and NACCL 2022.
- Served as a program committee member for NeurIPS, ICLR, and ICML.
Research Experience
- Research in the areas of reinforcement learning and natural language understanding.
- Leading the Microsoft TextWorld project aimed at developing new RL agents capable of navigating and interacting with text environments (e.g., text-based adventure games).
- Such agents should have skills including reading and understanding natural language text, information/knowledge-gathering, planning, and handling combinatorially large action spaces.
Background
He is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research – Montréal. Since joining Microsoft in 2017, his research focuses on reinforcement learning and natural language understanding.