Roland Memisevic

Roland Memisevic received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Toronto in 2008, doing research in deep learning. He subsequently held positions as a research scientist at PNYLab, Princeton, as a post-doc at the University of Toronto and at ETH Zurich, and as a junior professor at the University of Frankfurt. In 2012, he joined the MILA institute at the University of Montreal as a faculty member (adjunct since 2016). He is currently CEO and Chief Scientist at the Canadian-German AI startup Twenty Billion Neurons (20bn.com), which he co-founded in 2015.