Email: jonathan.colacocarr@mail.mcgill.ca | CV
I'm a master's student in computer science at McGill University and Mila, where I'm supervised by Prakash Panangaden and Doina Precup. I've previously worked with Benjamin Van Roy at Stanford on resolving societal disagreements in sequential decision-making, and with Cam Allen and Stuart Russell at UC Berkeley on aligning reinforcement learning agents with underspecified human goals. I like research about human-AI interaction because it gets at a simple but open question: what do we really want AI systems to do for us?
Outside of academia, I lead a small team of software developers at Hortus AI, an AI governance startup founded by Thomas Krendl Gilbert. We’re building a public-sector AI marketplace that's designed to make partnerships transparent, ethical, and easy to navigate.
I also hold a bachelor's degree in Honours Mathematics from McGill. Though I like math and computers, I'm naturally more of an arts-and-crafts person: long before I knew how to code, I spent many late nights at a sewing machine, making clothes with my friends.
If you'd like to chat, please do reach out. I always enjoy hearing from new people.