Bio: Mengye Ren is an assistant professor of computer science and data science at New York University (NYU). Before joining NYU, he was a visiting faculty researcher at Google Brain Toronto. He received Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto. He was also a senior research scientist at Uber Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) and Waabi, working on self-driving vehicles. His research focuses on making machine learning more natural and human-like, in order for AIs to continually learn, adapt, and reason in naturalistic environments.

Research Areas:

• Deep learning
• Computer vision
• Machine learning

Link to Mengye Ren’s Website