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 earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University in 2016. Prior to his Ph.D., he received his M.S. and 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