Led by Université de Montréal with four university partners (Polytechnique Montréal, HEC Montréal, Université Laval and McGill University, IVADO brings together research centers, government partners, civil society and industry. IVADO’s governance structure is designed to foster the co-construction of ambitious cross-sector initiatives that promote a paradigm shift in AI and its adoption.

 

Board of Directors

Marie-Josée Hébert

Chairman of the board
Vice-Rector, Research Discovery, Creation and Innovation

Université de Montréal

Annie Ross

Deputy Vice-President, Research

Polytechnique Montréal

Caroline Aubé

Director, Research and Knowledge Transfer

HEC Montréal

Eugénie Brouillet

Vice-Rector, Research, Creation and Innovation

Université Laval

Benoit Boulet

Associate Vice-Principal (Innovation + Partnerships)

McGill

Aaron Courville

Scientific Director

IVADO

Maxime St-Pierre

Managing Director, Digital Media

Radio-Canada

Ayla Rigouts Terryn

Assistant professor département de linguistique et de traduction - Faculté des arts et des sciences

Université de Montréal

David Nanang

Vice-président, Sciences

Agence canadienne d’inspection des aliments (ACIA)

Julien Crowe

Directeur principal, Intelligence artificielle Produits, pratique & R&D et partenariats Technologies de l’information

Banque Nationale du Canada

Jean-François Picard

Vice-président AQASI Conseiller en technologie industrielle CNRC

Amanda Arciero

Co-fondatrice et Vice-Présidente aux Opérations

AIRUDI

Observers

Mélanie Bosc

Deputy CEO

IVADO

Pierre Dumouchel

Director of Technology Transfer

IVADO

Catherine Régis

Director of Social Innovation and International Policy

IVADO

Executive Committee

Marie-Josée Hébert

Chairman of the board
Vice-Rector, Research Discovery, Creation and Innovation

Université de Montréal

Annie Ross

Deputy Vice-President, Research

Polytechnique Montréal

Caroline Aubé

Director, Research and Knowledge Transfer

HEC Montréal

Eugénie Brouillet

Vice-Rector, Research, Creation and Innovation

Université Laval

Benoit Boulet

Associate Vice-Principal (Innovation + Partnerships)

McGill

Aaron Courville

Scientific Director

IVADO

Observers

Mélanie Bosc

Deputy CEO

IVADO

Pierre Dumouchel

Director of Technology Transfer

IVADO

Catherine Régis

Director of Social Innovation and International Policy

IVADO

International Advisory Board

Aaron Courville

Scientific Director

IVADO

Kevin Murphy

Research Scientist

Google

Antoine Petit

Chairman and CEO

CNRS

Jennifer Tour-Chayes

Professor

Berkeley

Eric Topol

Researcher

Scripps Research

Karine Perset

Director (Unité IA de la Division des politiques de l’économie numérique)

OCDE

Gillian Hadfield

Professor

John Hopkins University

Sabina Leonelli

Professor

University of Exeter

Yoshua Bengio

Special Advisor and Founding Scientific Director

IVADO

Scientific committee

Aaron Courville

Scientific Director

IVADO

Yoshua Bengio

Special Advisor and Founding Scientific Director

IVADO

Danilo Bzdok

Scientific Co-Director
Research Programs and Academic Relations

IVADO

Aurélie Labbe

Scientific Co-Director
Academic Partnerships

IVADO

Foutse Khomh

Scientific Co-Director
Scientific and International Activities

IVADO

Véronique Guèvremont

Scientific Co-Director
Innovations and societal implications

IVADO

Academic members

Doina Precup

Associate Professor

McGill

Tal Arbel

Professor

McGill University

Jacques Corbeil

Full professor

Université Laval

Erick Delage

Full Professor

HEC Montréal

Audrey Durand

Assistant professor

Université Laval

Annie Pullen-Sansfaçon

Full Professor

Université de Montréal

Daniel Weinstock

Professor

McGill University

Industrial members

Nicolas Chapados

Co-founder and head of security

Element AI and Imagia

Shibl Mourad

Canadian Site Manager and Director of Research Engineering

Google Deep Mind

Student Representative

Anne Imouza

PhD candidate in political science

Technology transfer committee

Pierre Dumouchel

Director of Technology Transfer

IVADO

Academic members

Yoshua Bengio

Special Advisor and Founding Scientific Director

IVADO

Industrial members

David De Almeida

Scientific Director of Research

SNCF

Patrick Jeandroz

Head, Expertise - Data Science and High Performance Computing

Hydro-Québec

Sarah Jenna

Co-Founder and CEO

MIMS

Natacha Mainville

Senior Research Program Manager

Google Brain

Sébastien Paquet

R&D Director - Machine Learning

Coveo

Serge Oligny

Senior Data Scientist

Desjardins

Pape Wade

Co-founder and CEO

Airudi

Members observing intermediation organization

Diane Côté

President and Executive Director

MEDTEQ

Diane Gosselin

Executive Director

CQDM

Luc Sirois

Quebec's Chief Innovation Officer

Conseil de l'innovation du Québec

Member of the student community

Mohamed Amine Elforaici

PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering