Biography

Glen Berseth is an assistant professor at the Université de Montréal, a core academic member of Mila, CIFAR AI chair, and co-director of the Robotics and Embodied AI Lab (REAL). He was a Postdoctoral Researcher with Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) working in the Robotic AI & Learning (RAIL) lab with Sergey Levine. Glen completed his NSERC-supported Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia in 2019, where he worked with Michiel van de Panne. He received his MSc from York University under the supervision of Petros Faloutsos in 2014 and worked at IBM (2012) and with Christopher Pal at ElementAI (2018). His goal is to create systems that can learn and act in the world intelligently by developing deep learning and reinforcement learning methods that solve diverse planning problems from vision.