Senior Research Scientist
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Le Bras, Ronan
Ronan Le Bras is a research scientist at the Allen Institute for AI. His research interests include commonsense reasoning through natural language understanding, as well as computational methods for large-scale combinatorial optimization, reasoning, machine learning and human computation. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University in 2016. Prior to that, he earned an M.S. and a B.S. from Ecole Polytechnique Montreal in Computer Engineering and in Software Engineering.
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Thesis: Leveraging Human Insights into Problem Structure for Scientific Discovery
Thesis: Applying Probabilistic Message-Passing Algorithms to Search Heuristics for Solving Constraint Satisfaction Problems. *Nominated for the best 2010 University Master’s Thesis*
*Degree with highest honors*
MPSI (Mathematics, Physics, and Engineering Science), MP* (Mathematics and Physics)
Head TA for the course Introduction to Analysis of Algorithms
Graduate course, Topics in Computational Sustainability
Artificial Intelligence, *TA Award of Excellence*
Probability and Statistics
Computer Architecture and Programming Language