Aneri Muni

CS PhD Student • Mila - Quebec AI Institute, University of Montreal

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Hi! I am a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Montreal and Mila, where I am advised by Pierre-Luc Bacon. I also collaborate with Erick Delage at HEC Montreal. Previously, I received an MSc. in Robotics, Systems and Control from ETH Zurich and a BSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.

My research interests are primarily concerned with reinforcement learning, and particularly with methods of modeling uncertainty to improve safety and human-AI interaction.

News

  • [04/2026]: Our paper Reward Redistribution for CVaR MDPs using a Bellman Operator on L-infinity has been accepted to ICML 2026 as a Spotlight!
  • [04/2026]: I will be on the organizing committee of Finding the Frame Workshop at the Reinforcement Learning Conference (RLC) 2026.
  • [03/2026]: I will be presenting our work on Reward Redistribution for CVaR MDPs using a Bellman Operator on L-infinity at the Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS) conference in June.

Selected Publications

Awards

2022–2025
Women in AI — Excellence Scholarship, Mila
2022
Navigation Challenge Winner, Montreal Robotics Summer School
2022
Kyunghyun Cho Diversity Award, Mila
2022
UdeM/Mila PhD Tuition Exemption for International Students
2021
NeurIPS Travel Grant, WiML Workshop
2018
Best Oral Presentation (3rd place), Undergraduate Research Symposium
2018, 2016, 2015
3x President’s Undergraduate Research Award, Georgia Institute of Technology
2017
ThinkSwiss Research Scholarship, Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
2017
James G. and Mary G. Wohlford Co-op Scholarship
2015
IEEE Control Systems Society Video Contest (3rd place)

Services

Organization Committee Member

Finding the Frame Workshop @ RLC 2026
Montreal Robotics Summer School (MRSS) @ Mila in 2023 and 2024
Mila RL Workshop @ Mila 2024
Women in AI & Robotics Hackathon @ Mila 2022

Reviewer

ICML, Neurips, RLC, ICANN, Montreal AI Symposium (MAIS)

Mentoring Master's Students

Remi Lalonde (UdeM) 2026, Claire Shaw (UdeM) 2025, Jerome Francis (UdeM) 2024

Teaching Assistant

Math 2552: Differential Equations (Georgia Tech), 2014 - 2016

Volunteer

Co-founder of Women@Mila Meetups, 2023 - Present

Summer Schools and Seminars

Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning (DLRL) Summer School, Montreal
2023
Montreal Robotics Summer School, Mila
2022
AGI Safety Fundamentals Program, Effective Altruism Cambridge
2022
Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS), Tubingen
2020
ETH Robotics Summer School: Real World, Real Environments
2019