Hager (ha-ga-r) is a Senior Applied Research Scientist at Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute. She has MSc in Computing Science from University of Alberta, focused on Reinforcement learning, as part of IRL Lab , also at RLAI lab and Amii. Her research expertise spans: reinforcement learning, computer vision, LLMs and Agentic AI and Remote sensing. More broadly, she is passionate about applied research with a strong focus on advancing AI for good.

Work Experience

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• Senior Applied Research Scientist
  Mila - Quebec AI Institute, Canada, Apr’24 - present
• Applied Research Scientist
  Mila - Quebec AI Institute, Canada, Aug’22 - Mar’24
• AI Scientist-in-Residence
  NextAI - Montreal, Canada, Mar’22 - Sept’22
• Applied ML Research Intern
  Mila - Quebec AI Institute, Canada, Feb’22 - June’22
• Research and Teaching Assistant
  University of Alberta, Canada, Sept’19 - Jan’22
• Computer Vision Research Engineer
  Affectiva, Egypt, May’19 - Sept’19
• ML Algorithms Engineer
  Valeo, Egypt, July’17 - Apr’19
• Research Assistant
  The American University in Cairo, Egypt, Sept’16 - May’17

Education

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• MSc (Research) in Computing Science
  University of Alberta, Canada, Sept 2019 - Jan 2022
  GPA: 4.0/4.0
  Supervisors: Matthew Taylor and Josiah P. Hanna
  Thesis: A Framework of Safe Evaluation for Offline Learning
  Research Interests: Offline/Batch RL, safe RL, off-policy RL, human-AI interaction
  
• BSc in Computer Engineering
  The American University in Cairo, Egypt, 2012 - 2017
  Supervisor: Mohamed N. Mostafa
  Research Areas: video classification, computer vision