About me

I was born and raised in Montreal. I fell in love with programming in high school where I learned the basics of website designing. I then decided to pursue my studies in that field by applying for CEGEP in computer science and mathematics. I have now completed my Bachelor degree in software engineering in the spring of 2021 and am currently pursuing my Masters in artificial intelligence at MILA. I am fluent in both English and French.

Background

Studies

• 2010-2015: High school diploma at Collège Jean-Eudes, specializing in computer science
• 2015-2017: DEC at Collège Bois-de-Boulogne, CEGEP, in Computer Sciences and Mathematics
• 2017-2021: Bachelor degree at Polytechnique Montréal, in Software Engineering, specializing in artificial intelligence
• 2021: Masters at Polytechnique Montréal and MILA in artificial intelligence

Work

• Summer of 2018: Intern in software development for the Canadian Governement
• Summer of 2019: Intern in software development at Stingray Digital
• Spring and summer of 2020: Teacher’s Assistant in C++ at Polytechnique Montréal
• Spring of 2022: Teacher’s Assistant in Testing at Polytechnique Montréal

Areas of research

My Master’s project is focusing on Machine Learning and Constraint Programming in the field of Music Generation. I am also interested in the following subjects:

• Natural Language Processing
• Reinforcement Learning
• Computer Vision

Publications

Combining Reinforcement Learning and Constraint Programming for Sequence-Generation Tasks with Hard Constraints
Daphné Lafleur, Sarath Chandar, Gilles Pesant
Paper presented at CP 2022
Link to paper

Other interests

Music has always been a part of my life. I have learnt the basics of various instruments (violin, percussions, piano) and am currently focusing on guitar. I have done a lot of songwriting in high school. I also love to solve puzzles and enigmas. Finally, I love writing short (and longer) stories.