Ronan Collobert

Menlo Park, United States

Ronan Collobert joined Facebook in September 2014 as a Research Scientist in the AI Research Group. Over the past four years he was a researcher at the Idiap Research Institute in Switzerland, leading the Applied Machine Learning group. He also spent six years at NEC Labs in Princeton, NJ. His current interests are around deep learning in general, with applications in natural language, image and speech processing. Ronan also hacks Torch (a machine learning library) in his free time. He received his PhD from University of Pierre & Marie Curie in Paris under the supervision of the Bengio brothers (Idiap in Swizterland, and University of Montreal).