Emilio Parisotto

I am a PhD student under the supervision of Ruslan Salakhutdinov. In June 2015 I graduated from the University of Toronto with an Honours Bachelor of Science, Computer Science Specialist with a focus in Artificial Intelligence.

My CV can be found here.

I can be reached at eparisotto[2]cs[1]toronto[1]edu, replacing [1] with a period and [2] with an AT sign.

Below is a list of some of the work I have done.

Publications

1. E. Parisotto, J. Ba, R. Salakhutdinov. "Actor-Mimic: Deep Multitask and Transfer Reinforcement Learning". Submitted to International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2016. http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06342.
   • Presented at Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2015 Deep Reinforcement Learning workshop (spotlight + poster).


2. E. Mansimov, E. Parisotto, J. Ba, R. Salakhutdinov. "Generating Images From Captions with Attention". Submitted to International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2016. http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.02793.
   • Presented at Neural Information Processing System (NIPS) 2015 Multimodal Machine Learning workshop (poster) and Reasoning, Attention, Memory (RAM) workshop (oral).

Graduate Course Projects

• CS2542 "Topics in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Automated Planning and Reasoning about Action", Summer 2014
  Instructor: Professor Sheila McIlraith
  Description: Wrote a literature review covering Inverse Reinforcement Learning and several of its main algorithms.

Undergraduate Research Projects

• E. Parisotto, Y.A. Ghassabeh, S. Freydoonnejad, F. Rudzicz. "EEG Dimensionality Reduction in Automatic Identification of Synonymy". In Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2015.


• E. Parisotto, Y.A. Ghassabeh, M.J. MacDonald, A. Cozma, E.W. Pang, F. Rudzicz. "Automatic Identification of Received Language in MEG". In Proceedings of Interspeech 2015.

Work Experience

• 2014, CSC384 "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" Teaching Assistant (Course Development)
  • Redeveloped two programming assignments for the course from prolog to python 3.
  • Designed and created the automated marking code.