Marc-Alexandre Côté
Scholar

Marc-Alexandre Côté

Google Scholar ID: L83CE5gAAAAJ
Microsoft Research
Deep LearningNatural Language UnderstandingReinforcement LearningText-based Games
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
5,757
 
H-index
26
 
i10-index
51
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
20
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - 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.