Roland Memisevic is a Senior Director at Qualcomm AI research Canada. He joined Qualcomm in 2021 via the acquisition of the startup Twenty Billion Neurons, that he co-founded in 2016. At TwentyBN, he and his team developed the first instances of what is now commonly referred to as "vision-language" models and showed how a kind of real-world common sense can emerge in these models in response to training. Prior to co-founding TwentyBN, Roland was a faculty member in deep learning at the University of Montreal and a founding member of MILA, as well as in machine learning at the University of Frankfurt, and before that a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Visual Computing at ETH Zurich. Roland received the PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 2008 under the supervision of Prof. Geoffrey Hinton. Roland was named a CIFAR fellow in 2015, has published over 100 research papers and patents in AI, and co-organized numerous workshops. His is interested in developing AI models that perceive the world with human-like common sense.