Laurent Charlin, HEC Montréal

Research

Machine Learning Recommender Systems large language models personalization interpretability Graphical Models Neural Networks Reinforcement Learning

Latest funding

Personalized large-scale learning
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$48,000
The Political Economy of Oil and Indigenous Self-Determination in Alberta
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$60,000
Un laboratoire vivant sur les technologies d'apprentissage innovantes en enseignement supérieur
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$499,507

All 4 grants and awards

Personalized large-scale learning

Principal investigatorNSERC2024Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Charlin, Laurent

Keywords: machine learning; recommender systems; large language models; personalization; interpretability

$48,000

The Political Economy of Oil and Indigenous Self-Determination in Alberta

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Black Scholars - CGS

Principal investigators: Yuzyk, Seon A.

Keywords: Indigenous; Indigeneity; oil and gas; reconciliation; Indigenous feminism; political ecology; Alberta governance; mining; refusal; environmental violence; self-determination; decolonial futures; lived-experience; Indigenous consultation; body land; nature

$60,000

Un laboratoire vivant sur les technologies d'apprentissage innovantes en enseignement supérieur

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Partnership Grants

Keywords: recherche collaborative; technologies d'apprentissage innovantes; laboratoire vivant; recherche-développement; réalité virtuelle; jeux et ludification; espaces maker; intelligence artificielle; appropriation; usages; adoption; engagement; motivation

$499,507

Life-Long Machine Learning for Recommender Systems

Principal investigatorNSERC2017Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Charlin, Laurent

Keywords: Graphical Models; Machine Learning; Neural Networks; Recommender Systems; Reinforcement Learning; Sequential Decision Making

$196,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Machine Learning Dear Professor Charlin, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on machine learning connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your NSERC-funded project "Personalized large-scale learning" (2024), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]