Publications

BATIS: Bayesian Approaches for Targeted Improvement of Species Distribution Models. Catherine Villeneuve, Benjamin Akera, Mélisande Teng, David Rolnick, 2026. AAAI 2026, social impact track..

Bringing SAM to new heights: leveraging elevation data for tree crown segmentation from drone imagery. Mélisande Teng, Arthur Ouaknine, Etienne Laliberté, Yoshua Bengio, David Rolnick, Hugo Larochelle, 2025. Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025. OpenReview

Human-Centered AI for Sustainability and Agriculture. Jennifer Garard, Allison Cohen, Ernest Habanabakize, Erin Gleeson, Mélisande Teng, Gaétan Marceau Caron, Daoud Piracha, Rosette Lukonge Savanna, Kinsie Rayburn, Melissa Rosa, Kaspar Kundert, Éliane Ubalijoro, 2024. Book chapter in Human-Centered AI, a multidisciplinary perspective for policy-makers, auditors and users..

Innovation inclusive en matière d'intelligence artificielle: de la fragmentation à l'unité. Éliane Ubalijoro, Guylaine Poisson, Nahla Curran, Kyungim Baek, Nilufar Sabet-Kassouf, Mélisande Teng, 2023. Angles morts de la gouvernance de l'IA.

SatBird: a Dataset for Bird Species Distribution Modeling using Remote Sensing and Citizen Science Data. Mélisande Teng, Amna Elmustafa, Benjamin Akera, Yoshua Bengio, Hager Radi Abdelwahed, Hugo Larochelle, David Rolnick, 2023. Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2023, Datasets and Benchmarks track. project website arXiv OpenReview

Bird Distribution Modelling using Remote Sensing and Citizen Science Data. Mélisande Teng, Amna Elmustafa, Benjamin Akera, Hugo Larochelle, David Rolnick, 2023. Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning workshop at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). arXiv

ClimateGAN: Raising climate change awareness by generating images of floods. Victor Schmidt, Alexandra Sasha Luccioni, Mélisande Teng, Tianyu Zhang, Alexia Reynaud, Sunand Raghupathi, Gautier Cosne, Adrien Juraver, Vahe Vardanyan, Alex Hernandez-Garcia, Yoshua Bengio, 2021. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). arXiv OpenReview

Using Simulated Data to Generate Images of Climate Change. Gautier Cosne, Adrien Juraver, Mélisande Teng, Victor Schmidt, Vahe Vardanyan, Alexandra Luccioni, Yoshua Bengio, 2020. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), ML-IRL workshop. arXiv

Proactive advising: a machine learning driven approach to vaccine hesitancy. Andrew Bell, Alexander Rich, Mélisande Teng, Tin Orešković, Nuno B Bras, Lénia Mestrinho, Srdan Golubovic, Ivan Pristas, Leid Zejnilovic, 2019. IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI). IEEE Xplore