Founded by Professor Yoshua Bengio of the University of Montreal, Mila is a research institute in artificial intelligence that now brings together over 1,200 specialized researchers in machine learning. Based in Montreal, Mila’s mission is to be a global center for scientific advancements that inspire innovation and the growth of AI for the benefit of all. Mila is a globally recognized non-profit organization for its significant contributions to deep learning, especially in the fields of language modeling, automatic translation, object recognition, and generative models. Scientific Mission: Understanding of fundamental principles Supervised learning and pattern recognition Unsupervised and semi-supervised learning Representation learning, and deep learning of representations Computer vision applications Applications in natural language processing Applications in modelling signals such as speech Applications to healthcare Applications on large scale data (big data)