People
Learn more about all the people who helped make our project happen...
Outcomes Theme
Sandra Schillo
Professor at the Telfer school of management at the University of Ottawa. Her research focuses on improved methodologies relating to the measurement of innovation, entrepreneurship and their impact.
Michael Mulvey
Assistant professor at the Telfer school of management at the University of Ottawa. He is an expert in using qualitative research methods such as metaphor elicitation, means-end theory and the laddering technique to uncover how customers think. His recent research examines branding and positioning strategy, advertising design and testing, and perceived value and consumer choice.
Laurette Dubé
Faculty of Management professor at McGill University, as well as the founding chair and scientific director of the McGill Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE). Her research interest bears on the study of affects, behavioural economics, and neurobehavioral processes underlying consumption, lifestyle, and health behaviour.
Chris McPhee
Innovation management specialist for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada with over 20 years of innovation management, research, design, editing, and communications experience in Canada and Scotland, primarily in the technology innovation, agriculture, science, health, and education sectors.
Sharon O'Sullivan
Professor at the Telfer school of management at the University of Ottawa. Specialization in cross-cultural communication for knowledge exchange and expatriate adjustment, power and diversity/inclusion issues in formal training and career development, and situated learning alliances for environmental change
Geoff McCarney
Assistant Professor of Environment and Development in the School of International Development and Global Studies, and Director of Research for the Institute of the Environment and the Smart Prosperity Institute, at the University of Ottawa. His research expertise includes areas of environmental, natural resource and development economics.
Virginie Cobigo
Senior researcher at the Centre for Research on Educational and Community Services, as well as an associate professor at the University of Ottawa in the department of Psychology. She leads research that supports evidence-based practice in sectors supporting persons with cognitive disabilities and aims to promote the social inclusion of persons with cognitive disabilities
Vivian Nguyen
Assistant Professor at Carleton University for the Institute of Environmental and Interdisciplinary Science. Her research embodies inter- and transdisciplinary principles to solve today’s environmental and societal challenges such as natural resource management, biodiversity conservation, ecological restoration, climate change adaptation, food insecurity, among others.
Activities Theme
Diana Inkpen
Professor at the School of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Ottawa. Her research is in applications of Computational Linguistics. I organized seven international workshops and I was a program co-chair for the AI 2012 conference. She is also in the program committees of many conferences, as well as an associate editor of the Computational Intelligence and the Natural Language Engineering journals
AJung Moon
Professor for the Department of Elecrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University, as well as an experimental roboticist specializing in ethics and responsible design of interactive robots and autonomous intelligent systems. She studies how our interaction with machines influence people's behaviours and decisions, and investigates different ways to integrate our societal values in the design and deployment of autonomous systems
Bijan Raahemi
Professor at the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Raahemi established the Knowledge Discovery and Data mining (KDD) Research Laboratory compromising graduate students and researchers from multidisciplinary areas of Digital Transformation and Innovation, Systems Science, Computer Science and Engineering.
Ruth Bankey
Experienced Researcher, Geographer, Educator, and Professional Development Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the research industry. Skilled in Research Design, Healthcare, Policy Analysis, Clinical Research, and Strategic Planning. Strong research professional with a PhD focused in geography, health, political philosophy, ethics from The University of Edinburgh
Umar Ruhi
Vice-Dean (Undergraduate programs), as well as a professor for the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa. His research interests lie at the intersection of Information Systems and Knowledge Management, and his research programs are concerned with exploring contemporary information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their applications in human, organizational, social contexts, enterprise gamification, IT consumerization, enterprise social media strategy, and end-user development.
Hussein Al Osman
Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa and leads the Multimedia Processing and Interaction Group. His research focuses on affective computing, specifically multimodal affect estimation, human-computer interaction, serious gaming, and multimedia systems. He has recently been interested in remote physiological signal measurement and its application in affective computing. He has produced over 50 peer-reviewed research articles, 2 patents, and several technology transfers to the industry.
Peoples Theme
Myriam Brouard
Assistant professor at the Telfer school of management at the University of Ottawa. As a researcher, she is a Consumer Culture Theorist working at the intersection of marketing and anthropology to understand what drives the adoption of disruptive technologies. Her research interests revolve around diversity, equity, and inclusion in technological spaces, like Web3 and the Metaverse.
Liam Peyton
Vice-Dean (Graduate studies), as well as a professor for the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Ottawa. His areas of interest includes model-driven data integration to support business processes and performance management, service oriented architectures, B2B networks, complex event processing, decision support, quality assurance and privacy especially as applied to health care.
Hanan Anis
Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Ottawa. She holds an NSERC chair in Entrepreneurial Engineering Design and is also the coordinator of entrepreneurship and innovation in the Faculty of Engineering. Hanan's current research interests include Biophotonics, Innovation and engineering education.
Dominira Saul
Founder / principal at DFFRNT.ca with over 20 years of experience in user and customer experience design he helps organizations transform the way they produce products and offer services. He has created, managed and taught many professional development courses and remains connected to academia with roles in UX programs at Carleton University, Algonquin College and the University of Ottawa.
Communities Theme
Ana Maria Peredo
A Canada Research Chair tier 1 and Full Professor of Social and Inclusive Entrepreneurship at the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa. Her work has contributed to understanding the ways communities can address poverty by constructing rewarding and sustainable livelihoods out of resources in their distinctive cultures and environments.
Emmanuel Duplàa
full professor, specialized in information and communication technology (ICT) for learning at the University of Ottawa. He is currently conducting research at the Faculty of Education on educational video games (in partnership with the School of Information Technology and Engineering), on digital literacies and on design processes in e-learning. Professor Duplàa is a Learning Committee Lead with the LIFE Research Institute.
Governance Theme
Tyler Chamberlin
Tyler Chamberlin is an Associate Professor at the Telfer School of Management. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom and an undergraduate degree, in economics and public policy and administration, from the University of Ottawa. Since 2002, he has taught economics and international business at the University of Ottawa. His research focuses on the microeconomics of innovation in various Canadian and international industries. He is the Principal Investigator on a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Partnership Development grant into Inclusive Innovation (2022-2025). He recently completed a 9-year term as is a member of the Pension Investment Committee of the University of Ottawa Pension Plan which manages almost $3 billion of asset
Louise Earl
Extensive national and international experience in the measurement of science, technology and innovation (ST&I) and the development of related statistical indicators. She is best known for championing the measurement of innovation to all sectors of the economy and developing methods to measure knowledge management and other technology management and use practices
Chantal Rodier
STEAM Projects Coordinator and Artist in Residence with 25 years experience incorporating art and human experience into technology. She is responsible for promoting STEAM initiatives at the Faculty of Engineering in collaboration with other faculties, as well as mentoring and coordinating transdisciplinary STEAM projects
Jeff Kinder
Institute for science society and policy (ISSP) Executive-in-residence, as well as a board member of the Canadian Science Policy Centre and a past member of the Advisory Council of the Mitacs Canadian Science Policy Fellows program. He has over 30 years’ experience in government science, technology and innovation policy in the US and Canada.
Daina Mazutis
Associate Professor of Strategy at the University of Ottawa where she also holds the Endowed Professorship in Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability (ERS).Daina’s research on leadership, strategy and sustainability has been published in several edited books as well as peer-reviewed journals. She currently sits on the Board of Prime Ministers’ Row and Riga Business School.
Daniel Paré
Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Faculty of Arts. His areas of ongoing research and policy-related work focus on social, economic, political and technical issues arising from innovations in information and communication technologies (ICTs) in developing and industrialized countries. Areas of specialization include ICTs and international development (ICT4D), e-commerce, Internet governance, information and communication policy, e-government, and knowledge networks
Project Coordinator
Alyssa Primdahl
An undergraduate student in the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa, specializing in Management and Entrepreneurship. Her interests lie in the fields of Innovation, entrepreneurship and mental health. She previously worked as a Student-in-Residence at the University of Ottawa's Entrepreneurship hub and is now the Student Engagement Lead for U-Flourish: A Mental Health and student well-being, academic success initiative at uOttawa.
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