Hi! I am Ankesh Anand, a PhD student in Artifical Intelligence at Mila, working with Aaron Courville and Hugo Larochelle on Reinforcement Learning and Grounded Language Learning. I also work part-time at Microsoft Research, Montreal as a research intern.

Earlier, I graduated from IIT Kharagpur with a Bachelors and Masters in Mathematics and Computing. I have also spent time at VISA, HackerEarth and Google Summer of Code.

News

• Our paper on Blindfold Baselines for Embodied QA was accepted to the NeurIPS 2018 ViGIL workshop.
• I gave a talk on Learning with Embodied Agents in 3D environments at Microsoft Research, Montreal.

Publications

Unsupervised State Representation Learning in Atari

Ankesh Anand*, Evan Racah*, Sherjil Ozair*, Yoshua Bengio, Marc-Alexandre Côté, R Devon Hjelm

ArXiV Preprint

Blindfold Baselines for Embodied QA

Ankesh Anand, Eugene Belilovsky, Kyle Kastner, Hugo Larochelle, Aaron Courville

ViGIL Workshop at NeurIPS 2018

HoME: a Household Multimodal Environment

Simon Brodeur, Ethan Perez*, Ankesh Anand*, Florian Golemo*, Luca Celotti, Florian Strub, Jean Rouat, Hugo Larochelle, Aaron Courville

ICLR 2018, Workshop Track

MMGAN: Manifold Matching Generative Adversarial Networks

Noseong Park, Ankesh Anand, Joel Moniz, Kookjin Lee, Tanmoy Chakraborty, J Choo, H Park, Youngmin Kim

ICPR 2018

We used Neural Networks to Detect Clickbaits: You won't believe what happened Next!

Ankesh Anand, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Noseong Park

ECIR 2017