Nadia Ady receives the 2023 Canadian Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award

Nadia completed a Ph.D. at the University of Alberta in 2023, working in the Reinforcement Learning and Artificial Intelligence Lab, supervised by Patrick M. Pilarski. Nadia now works in the Autotelic Interaction Research Group at Aalto University in Finland. Photo Supplied.

Nadia Ady receives the 2023 CS-Can|Info-Can Canadian Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award for her thesis titled: "Specific Machine Curiosity". This award recognizes computer science doctoral students completing degrees at Canadian institutions and recognizes excellence in research and writing in a doctoral dissertation.

CS-Can|Info-Can counts among its members more than 60 organizations active in computing research: academic departments of computer science and computer engineering; laboratories and centers in industry, government, and academia; and affiliated professional societies. CS-CAN-INFO-CAN works with these organizations to represent the computing research community and to effect change that benefits both computing research and society at large.

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