Invited Speakers

Rihab Gorsane 

Rihab Gorsane is a Research Engineer and a team lead at InstaDeep. She is currently working on Reinforcement Learning based projects for industrial applications where she is helping to automate the scheduling, routing and dispatching of trains at a large scale for a national rail operator. Rihab is also involved in research projects within the company focusing on Multi-Agent RL evaluation. She is passionate about AI skills development in Africa, is a google developer expert in Machine Learning, and has taught DL/RL courses at Tunisian universities. 

Jennifer Doudna 

Jennifer A. Doudna is the Li Ka Shing Chancellor’s Chair and a Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her groundbreaking development of CRISPR-Cas9 as a genome-engineering technology, with collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier, earned the two the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and forever changed the course of human and agricultural genomics research.

Joelle Pineau

Joelle Pineau is the Vice President of AI Research at Meta, supporting labs across North America and Europe. She is also a faculty member at Mila and a Professor and William Dawson Scholar at the School of Computer Science at McGill University, where she co-directs the Reasoning and Learning Lab. She holds a BASc in Engineering from the University of Waterloo, and an MSc and PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Pineau's research focuses on developing new models and algorithms for planning and learning in complex partially-observable domains and on applying these algorithms to complex problems in robotics, health care, games and conversational agents.