News
Updates from the International Laboratory on Learning Systems and its partners.
Laboratory news
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ÉTS and DIAGNOS launch a new industrial chair in AI for medical imaging
Led by ILLS member Ismail Ben Ayed, the new chair will develop reliable AI methods to analyse retinal images and support earlier detection of disease.
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Mohammadhadi Shateri and Éric Granger share a CVPR 2026 transparency award
The paper Uni-DAD, co-authored with LIVIA researchers Yara Bahram and Mélodie Desbos, received CVPR’s Compute Transparency Champion award for its reporting of computational resources and experiments.
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CNRS Computer Sciences leadership visits ILLS
Adeline Nazarenko, Director of CNRS Computer Sciences, and Jérôme Durand-Lose, Deputy Scientific Director for Europe and International Affairs, met ILLS researchers and students to discuss how the lab makes machine learning algorithms more reliable and safer to use. The delegation also met partners at IVADO, Mila, McGill and ÉTS.
Read the CNRS account of the visit
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ÉTS inaugurates Pavilion F, home to ILLS
Québec minister Martine Biron attended the opening of Pavilion F. ILLS researchers and students had moved into their dedicated space in the building earlier that year.
Read the ÉTS announcement (in French)
Photo © ÉTS Montréal 
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Georges Kaddoum receives major research and engineering honours
Since 2022, ILLS member Georges Kaddoum has received the IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (2022), the Mitacs Award for Exceptional Leadership (2023), election to the Royal Society of Canada (2024), and four 2025 honours: the ÉTS Board of Directors Research Excellence Award, the Université du Québec Partnership Excellence Award, the NSERC Synergy Award for Innovation and Engineers Canada’s Gold Medal.
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Jeremy R. Cooperstock’s WILCO paper earns a DASC Best of Session award
The WILCO paper by ILLS member Jeremy R. Cooperstock and collaborators received a Best of Session award at the 2025 Digital Avionics Systems Conference.
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AJung Moon named an Eric L. Adler Faculty Scholar
ILLS member AJung Moon received the Eric L. Adler Faculty Scholar Award for a three-year term running from 2025 to 2028.
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Ulrich Aïvodji receives an FRQNT award for new academics
ILLS member Ulrich Aïvodji received the FRQNT Research Support for New Academics Award.
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Éric Granger and Marco Pedersoli receive the ÉTS Impact Award for Health and Well-being
The award recognized a collaborative project exploring how AI can support lasting behaviour change. The ÉTS team included ILLS members Éric Granger and Marco Pedersoli.
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Aditya Mahajan receives DATAIA and Jean d’Alembert fellowships
Current ILLS member Aditya Mahajan received a DATAIA Fellowship in 2023 and a Jean d’Alembert Fellowship from Université Paris-Saclay in 2024.
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Stéphane Coulombe elected to IEEE CASS technical committee
ILLS member Stéphane Coulombe was elected to the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Multimedia Systems and Applications Technical Committee for the 2024–2028 term.
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Pablo Piantanida receives an Amazon Research Award
The award supported research into efficient adaptation of generative language models through unsupervised calibration, a project involving ILLS co-director Pablo Piantanida.
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Jeremy R. Cooperstock co-authors a CHI 2022 Honorable Mention paper
“The Sound of Hallucinations: Toward a More Convincing Emulation of Internalized Voices” received an Honorable Mention at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Sound Recording and Interaction Lab publications