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

Luc Vinet

CEO

IVADO

Yoshua Bengio

Scientific Director

IVADO

Lise Estelle Brault

Senior Director Data, Fintech and Innovation

AMF

Alain Lavoie

President

LexRock AI

Alexandre Le Bouthillier

Cofounder

Linéaris

Natacha Mainville

Senior Research Program Manager

Google Brain

Marc St-Hilaire

Vice President, Technology and Innovation

CAE

Maxime St-Pierre

Managing Director, Digital Media

Radio-Canada

Ayla Rigouts Terryn

Professor

Université de Montréal

Observers

Mélanie Bosc

Deputy CEO

IVADO

Pierre Dumouchel

Director of Technology Transfer

IVADO

Catherine Régis

Director of Social Innovation and International Policy

IVADO

Daria Riabinina

Director - Collaborative Research

Ministère de l'Économie, de l'Innovation et de l'Énergie

Christian Chouinard

Director

Canada First Research Excellence Fund

Matthew Nowakowski

Vice-Rector, Finance

Université de Montréal

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

Luc Vinet

CEO

IVADO

Yoshua Bengio

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

Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Professor

University of Toronto

Kevin Murphy

Research Scientist

Google

Florence D’Alché Buc

Professor

Télécom Paris Tech

Martine Labbé

Professor

Université Libre de Bruxelles

Antoine Petit

Chairman and CEO

CNRS

Pascal Van Hentenryck

Professor

Georgia Tech

Scientific committee

Luc Vinet

CEO

IVADO

Yoshua Bengio

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

Aaron Courville

Scientific advisor
Machine Learning

Université de Montréal

Academic members

Jean-François Cordeau

Full Professor

HEC Montréal

Doina Precup

Associate Professor

McGill

Marc Fredette

Full Professor

HEC Montréal

Emma Frejinger

Associate Professor

Université de Montréal

Christopher Pal

Full Professor

Polytechnique Montréal

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

Technology transfer committee

Luc Vinet

CEO

IVADO

Pierre Dumouchel

Director of Technology Transfer

IVADO

Academic members

Yoshua Bengio

Scientific Director

IVADO

Academic members

Olivier Bahn

GERAD Director

GERAD

François Bellavance

Full Professor

HEC Montréal

Nadia Lahrichi

Full Professor

Polytechnique Montréal

Manuel Morales

Associate Professor

Université de Montréal

Martin Trépanier

Director

CIRRELT

Industrial members

Narjès Boufaden

CEO

Keatext

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

Jean-François Larochelle

Senior Director

DataLab R&D, Intact

Natacha Mainville

Senior Research Program Manager

Google Brain

Philippe Molaret

Technical Director

Thales Canada

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

Sarah Gagnon-Turcotte

Director, Innovation & AI Adoption

Conseil de l'innovation du Québec

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

Sacha Morin

PhD student in Machine learning

Université de Montréal