Roland Memisevic received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 2008 under the supervision of Prof. Geoffrey Hinton. He has been a faculty member at MILA (University of Montreal) and at the University of Frankfurt, Germany. In 2021 he joined Qualcomm AI research, following the acquisition of startup Twenty Billion Neurons, which he co-founded in 2016. Roland’s research interests are end-to-end learning, multi-modal reasoning and the emergence of concepts in neural networks.