Marc Bellemare, PhD biography

Marc G. Bellemare is co-founder and chief scientific officer at Reliant AI. From 2017 to 2023 led the Google Brain reinforcement learning (RL) team in Montréal, where he spearheaded the use of RL to navigate Loon stratospheric balloons. As an early member of DeepMind’s research team, he made multiple foundational discoveries in RL, and has written two textbooks on the topic. He also holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Mila, Montreal’s world-renowned AI institute.