Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Université Laval

Research Thrust Leader: Methods of Artificial Intelligence and Data Processing, IID

Canada-CIFAR Artificial Intelligence Chair

Audrey Durand is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Software/Computer/Electrical Engineering at Université Laval (Québec City, Canada). She is also affiliated with Mila — Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute (Montreal, Canada) through a Canada CIFAR AI Chair. Prior to that she was a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Joelle Pineau at McGill University (Montreal, Canada).

She completed a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (2011-2018) in the Computer Vision and Systems Laboratory at Université Laval, where she was supervised by Prof. Christian Gagné and co-supervised by Prof. Joelle Pineau (McGill University). She also collaborated with Odalric-Ambrym Maillard (INRIA Lille – Nord Europe). Before that she obtained a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (2009-2011) and a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering (2004-2009) from Université Laval.