David Austin

PhD student at MILA/McGill

Welcome

I’m a first-year PhD student at MILA and McGill University under the supervision of Dr. Jackie Cheung. I’m part of the McGill NLP Group.

Previously, I spent a year as a faculty affiliate researcher at the Vector Institute in Toronto, working with Drs. Scott Sanner and Chris McIntosh of the University of Toronto.

I spent my undergraduate years at the University of Waterloo, where I earned a Bachelor of Computer Science with a minor in Statistics.

Research Interests

My long-term research interests are in Natural Language Processing, Human-Computer Interaction, and Information Retrieval. I want to create intelligent interactive information-seeking systems which are trustworthy, democratic, and useful. I am also interested in the human impacts of modern information-seeking systems.

I am currently working on multi-agent planning and coordination.