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Mansi Maheshwari

I'm a PhD student at Mila studying Lifelong Machine Learning under Prof. Sarath Chandar.

News

May 2026 Graduated with my M.S. in Computer Science from UMass Amherst and delivered the commencement address for my class.
Mar 2026 Guest speaker at Cohere Labs, presenting a talk on addressing the plasticity-stability dilemma in RL.
Dec 2025 Our paper has been accepted for oral presentation at AAMAS 2026.
Aug 2025 Presented AltNet at CoLLAs 2025 (Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents).
Jun 2025 AI Instructor at the University of Washington, co-designing and teaching Fundamentals of AI for high-school students.
Apr 2025 Selected finalist for Three Minute Thesis (3MT) at UMass — "From California to Alaska: Teaching AI to Adapt."
May 2025 AI R&D Intern at CNH Industrial, developing multi-task perception models for driverless tractors.
Sep 2024 Joined University of Massachusetts Amherst as an M.S. student in Computer Science.

Commencement Address, UMass 2026

Three Minute Thesis, UMass 2025

Talk at Cohere Labs, Mar 2026

Research

AltNet Poster
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AltNet: Alternating Network Resets for Plasticity



Teaching

Philosophy: AI is shaping the future. But who gets to shape AI? Who gets to learn AI will decide who gets to build it — and that access must start early. I care deeply about making AI education accessible to all.

Instructor, Fundamentals of Artificial IntelligenceUniversity of Washington

Summer 2025, Spring 2026

Designed and taught an introductory AI course for high-school students.

Artificial Intelligence Subject Matter ExpertiCEV

September 2025 – present

Reviewed and developed curriculum content for the Introduction to Artificial Intelligence textbook for high-school learners.


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