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17/7/2020 Our research on "What can I do here? A Theory of Affordances in RL" is featured at the MIT Technology Review.

1/6/2020 Our paper on "What can I do here? A Theory of Affordances in RL" has been accepted at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2020. See full paper here.

14/5/2020 I gave a talk on A Theory of Affordances in RL at the Reinforcement Learning and Artificial Intelligence lab meeting at University of Alberta, invited by Martha White.

6/1/2020 Our work on Value Preserving State Action Abstractions has been accepted for presentation at AISTATS, 2020.

11/10/2019 Our work on Options of Interest: Temporal Abstraction with Interest Functions has been accepted at AAAI, 2020. A preliminary draft of the ideas in this work was published in the AAAI, 2019 Student Abstract proceedings

13/9/2019 I taught an invited lecture on “Introduction to RL” at the MILA/IVADO summer school on Deep Learning, Montreal, 2019

29/7/2019 I am currently a PhD Research Intern at DeepMind , Montreal working with Doina Precup and the HRL team.

6/6/2019 I am co-organizing a Lifelong Learning: A Reinforcement Learning (LLARLA) Workshop to be held during RLDM, 2019 .

24/3/2019 I am co-organizing a Workshop on Multi-Task and Lifelong Reinforcement Learning to be held during ICML-19 in Long Beach, USA . We have an exicting line up of speakers. Consider submitting your work.

10/26/2018 Our work on Learning Options with Interest Functions, has been selected for poster presentation in the AAAI-19 Student Abstract and Poster Program to be held during AAAI-19 in Honolulu, Hawaii

10/15/2018 I have been chosen to be a presenter at the 24th AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium (DC) at AAAI-19 in Honolulu, Hawaii

6/20/2018 Our work on 'Safe Option-Critic: Learning Safety in the Option-Critic Architecture' Accepted in ICML 2018 Workshop on Adaptive Learning Agents. Paper is now on arxiv!

6/16/2018 Our work on 'Attend Before you Act: Leveraging human visual attention for continual learning' Accepted in ICML 2018 Workshop on LifeLong Learning. Paper coming out soon!

5/13/2018 I will be one of the Teaching Assistants at the AI For Social Good Summer School from May 14-June 21. Super excited to be a part of this initiative.

2/28/2018 Invited talk on Introduction to Computer Vision & Reinforcement Learning at ITTT (Informative Talks on Technical Topics) organized by the McGill IEEE Student Branch.

11/13/2017 Volunteered as a mentor at the Women in Innovation and Artificial Intelligence Breakfast organized as the kick-off event of the McGill Innovation Week in the Fall of 2017.

10/1/2017 Organized the weekly Fall-17 AI Safety RL Lab Reading Group to get started with discussions and initial reading on related literature.

9/15/2017 Joined the Reasoning and Learning lab at McGill University as a 1st year Ph.D. student. Attended the ACM Canadian Women Celebration of Women in Computing

6/1/2017 Left job at Intel. I will be joining Ph.D. in CS program at the McGill University in Fall 2017.

5/1/2017 My application for Reinforcement Learning Summer School (RLSS) 2017 has been accepted. 225 out of 1130 applicants were selected.

4/14/2017 My application for International Computer Vision Summer School (ICVSS) 2017 has been accepted. 150 out of 430 applicants were selected.

03/27/2017 Manuscript entitled “Creating Segments and Effects on Comics by Clustering Gaze Data” has been accepted for publication in the Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications [ACM TOMM]

02/27/2017 Invited Talk on Learning Visual Representations at the ASU Active Perception Group Seminar Series at the Arizona State University, Tempe.

08/03/2016 Invited Talk at the Women in Deep Learning event at the Deep Learning Summer School, Montreal

06/09/2016 As of June-27-2016, I start working as a Software Engineer in the Perception Computing Group-IOTG at Intel Corporation, Arizona.

05/11/2016 My application for CIFAR-CRM 2016 Deep Learning Summer School has been accepted.

04/22/2016 Paper on 'A Preliminary Benchmark of Four Saliency Algorithms On Comic Art' Accepted in ICME-MMArt Workshop 2016 .

09/23/2015 Attended RoboBusiness Expo 2015 at San Jose from Intel.

02/05/2015 I will be spending Summer & Fall of 2015 as a Perception Computing Software Intern at Intel.

12/10/2014 My robot AUMORO built in the course IMDL- Fall 2014 was covered in the WUFT news on Robot Demo Day .

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