Talks
Deep learning for conversational AI, Deep learning summit, Montreal, 2019
The advantages of AI in Canada, World Summit AI, Amsterdam, 2019
Panelist at the WiNLP workshop at ACL, Florence, 2019
Panelist on battling bias in AI at C2 as part of the RBC disruptors series, Montréal, 2019, link to video
Invited speaker at the Visual question answering and dialog workshop at CVPR, Long Beach, 2019
Women in AI panel, McGill University, Montréal, 2019
Panelist for the series Les Porte-Voix, BAnQ, Montreal, 2019
Panelist at the Internet Governance Forum on Accountability for Human Rights: Mitigate Unfair Bias in AI, Paris, 2018
Invited speaker at The Fifth IEEE Research Boost, Montreal, 2018
Invited speaker at the Artificial Intelligence and the Next Generation User Experience Workshop, ICACHI, Montreal, 2018. I talked about designing dialogue systems with user satisfaction in mind.
Invited speaker at TechAide, Montreal, 2018. I talked about machine learning for dialogue systems.
Panelist at RightsCon on bias in machine learning, Toronto, 2018
Invited speaker at I chose STEM, Montreal, 2018
AI for social good, Montreal. I led a session on machine learning for dialogue systems in 2017 and 2018.
Women in Intelligence dinner, Montreal, 2018
Panel on machine learning at scale, Montreal, 2018
Panelist at YLIT Montréal - Breakfast with Female Role Models In Tech for Young Ladies in Tech, Montreal, 2018
WiDL panel/lunch during the deep learning summer school, Montreal, 2017
Teaching AI to make decisions and communicate at MLConf, NYC, 2017
Invited speaker at the RL Barbados workshop, Barbados, 2016. I talked about machine learning for dialogue systems.
Media Articles and Blog Posts
Tutorial #7: neural natural language generation - sequence level training, Borealis AI blog
Tutorial #6: neural natural language generation - decoding algorithms, Borealis AI blog
Ces femmes qui changent le visage de la techno, Elle Québec, Janvier 2020
A conversation with John Stackhouse on AI for good as part of the RBC disruptors series
Urbania Sans Filtre about privacy on the internet (in French), link to video
30 Influential Women Advancing AI in Canada, RE•WORK
Celle qui murmurait à l’oreille des robots, in URBANIA Spécial Extraordinaire 2018
How to build smarter chatbots, co-authored with Kaheer Suleman for VentureBeat
Canada’s AI explosion: Visit three labs where machines are being taught to think like people, in the Globe and Mail
How women in STEM fields are hacking into the boys' club, on CTV News
Memory & machines: A study in goal-oriented dialogue systems, Microsoft Research Montréal blog
Podcasts
20% podcast (in French)
Women in AI Podcast, RE•WORK