Francois Rivest holds an M.Sc. in machine learning from McGill University, where he was on the Dean’s Honours List, and a Ph.D. in computational neuroscience from the University of Montreal. He has been an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics & Computer Science at the Royal Military College of Canada since 2010. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, he is a member of the Center for Neuroscience Studies at Queen’s University, a position he has held since 2011. His current research focuses on understanding how animals learn quickly, particularly in relation to timing, and he develops representation-construction algorithms for real-time machine learning. His research interests also encompass the brain’s dopaminergic system, animal interval timing, machine reinforcement learning, and automatic construction of representations.
Royal Military College of Canada • Kingston, ON
Teaching and researching in the field of computer science and neuroscience.