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Aaron Courville
Université de MontréalFull Professor
IVADOScientific Director
Courville co-wrote Deep Learning, a standard textbook[1], and contributed to the original paper on generative adversarial networks, where one model learns by trying to fool another.[2] As a founding member of Mila, he helped build Montréal’s deep-learning research community.[3]
Career & education
Current rolesUniversité de Montréal2023-presentFull ProfessorIVADOApr 2025-presentScientific Director
Université de Montréal2023-presentIVADOApr 2025-presentPreviouslyUniversité de Montréal2005-2008Postdoc
Université de Montréal2005-2008Education
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations382,323As of Nov 1, '26
citations+6,185Since last snapshot, Oct 1, '26
Selected contributions
Generative Adversarial Networks
With Ian Goodfellow, Jean Pouget-Abadie, Mehdi Mirza, Bing Xu, David Warde-Farley, Sherjil Ozair and Yoshua BengioGANs pit two networks against each other: one creates examples while the other learns to spot fakes.
Deep Learning
With Ian Goodfellow and Yoshua BengioA textbook on neural networks, their mathematical foundations and practical applications.
References
- Deep Learning — official textbookdeeplearningbook.org
Courville co-wrote Deep Learning, a standard textbook
- Generative Adversarial Networks — original paperarxiv.org
and contributed to the original paper on generative adversarial networks, where one model learns by trying to fool another.
- Mila — Aaron Courville biographymila.quebec
As a founding member of Mila, he helped build Montréal’s deep-learning research community.
- Aaron Courville Appointed Scientific Director of IVADO — official announcementivado.ca
April 30, 2025 announcement confirms the appointment and succession from Yoshua Bengio.
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