News

News

Updates on publications, funding, and research activities.

May 2026

▸ [Paper] Dynamic Object Masks as Goal Representations for Visual Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning
    Led by Fahim Shahriar — accepted at RLC 2026
     https://rl-conference.cc

▸ [Paper] Rethinking the Suitability of RL Algorithms Under Practical Transfer Constraints
    Led by Hany Hamed — accepted at RLC 2026
     https://rl-conference.cc

April 2026

▸ [Grant] NSERC Discovery Grant
    Reinforcement Learning with Strategic Sensing: Towards Safe and Efficient Agents

▸ [Student] Alireza Seyed Azimi — MSc defense
    Benchmarking Action Spaces in Reinforcement Learning for Vision-based Robotic Manipulation

▸ [Student] Vishal Bhrat and Zahra Suleymanova — Honours presentation
    Canadian AI 2026 (Vancouver, BC)
     https://www.caiac.ca/en/conferences/canadianai-2026/program

September 2025

▸ [Student] Payam Parvizi — PhD defense
    Wavefront Sensorless Adaptive Optics for Free-space Satellite-to-Ground Communication using RL

▸ [Student] Fahim Shahriar — MSc defense
    General and Efficient Visual Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning using Object-Agnostic Masks

▸ [Service] Appointed Associate Professor
    University of Ottawa (EECS)
     https://engineering.uottawa.ca/eecs

▸ [Service] Appointed Faculty Affiliate
    Vector Institute
     https://vectorinstitute.ai/