Bogdan Mazoure

About Me

I am taking students to be co-advised with Mila faculty members for 2025-2026. If you are interested, reach out over e-mail with a research problem and list of 3 suggested faculty members.

I am currently a Research Scientist at the Interactive & Embodied group within the Machine Learning Research team at Apple, working with Alex Toshev on solving fundamental sequential decision making problems using large generative models.

I defended my PhD at the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (Mila) and McGill University in December 2022, co-supervised by Devon Hjelm and Doina Precup.

Research Interests

• Reinforcement learning: exploration, representation learning, generalization.
• Generative Models:: large language models, diffusion models and applications to reinforcement learning.

Education

• PhD in Computer Science (2019-2022) McGill University / Mila

• MSc in Math & Stats (2017-2018) McGill University

• BSc in Stats & Computer Science (2014-2017) McGill University

Past Interns

• Riashat Islam (now at Microsoft Research)
• Max Schwarzer (now at OpenAI)
• Andrew Szot (now at Apple Machine Learning Research)
• Martin Klissarov (now at Google DeepMind)
• Ram Ramrakhya (now PhD student at GeorgiaTech)
• Silvia Sapora (now DPhil student at Oxford)