Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The University of British Columbia

University of Regina

PHD Candidate at MIT Media Lab

University of Washington

Assistant Professor

Working on Social Reinforcement Learning: using multi-agent RL techniques to improve single-agent learning and generalization, and human-AI interaction.

Google

Senior Research Scientist

DeepMind

Research Intern

I led a team of five people in a project to improve deep learning models by making them aware of implicit social feedback from humans.

Google Brain

I helped teach MIT's graduate-level course on Machine Learning, 6.867. My responsibilities included teaching recitations and developing homework and test material.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

I worked on project Magenta, developing new techniques for automatic music generation via deep learning. My project involved applying Reinforcement Learning to fine-tune an LSTM Recurrent Neural Network trained to generate melodies.

Brain Intern

MIT Media Lab

PHD Candidate

Microsoft

Program Manager Intern

I coordinated workshops aimed at increasing interest in Computer Science among elementary school aged girls.

Girlsmarts Coordinator

I was a TA for three courses: CPSC 344: Human Computer Interaction, CPSC 121: Models of Computation, and CPSC 430: Computers and Society

I taught an introductory Computer Science summer course. Aside from delivering lectures, I also prepared the lecture notes, assignments, midterm and final exam.

Sessional Lecturer

I collaborated with the Department of Fine Arts on interactive multimedia art installation involving the Microsoft Kinect, an Arduino and a variety of electronic sensors.

Research Assistant

I ran three tutorial sessions per week to help first year students understand important concepts in introductory Math and Computer Science courses.

Supplemental Instruction Leader

I worked at a centre for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, where I helped children to perform scheduled activities and communicate using picture cards.

Natasha Jaques