Yoshua BengioFounder and Scientific Advisor · MilaResearcher↗TM
Researcher · Academic
Tegan Maharaj
HEC MontréalAssistant Professor, Department of Decision Sciences
MilaCore Academic Member
Maharaj connects responsible AI with ecological risk. She studies how learning systems behave after deployment, builds test environments for claims about safety and applies machine learning to climate, biodiversity and epidemiology; she also co-founded Climate Change AI to organize work at that intersection.
Career & education
Current roles
Mila2024-presentCore Academic Member
HEC Montréal2024-present
Assistant Professor, Department of Decision Sciences
Mila2024-presentPreviously
University of Toronto2021-2024Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information
University of Toronto2021-2024Work 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.
citations10,365As of Nov 1, '26
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Polytechnique Montréal
