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

Vincent Poitout

Chairman of the Board
Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation

Université de Montréal

Mélanie Bosc

Deputy CEO

IVADO

Maxime St-Pierre

Partner and Executive Vice-President, Technology and AI

LG2

Ayla Rigouts Terryn

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

Université de Montréal

David Nanang

Vice-President, Science at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)

Agence canadienne d’inspection des aliments (ACIA)

Julien Crowe

Senior Director of Artificial Intelligence (products, practice, R&D, and partnerships)

National Bank of Canada

Jean-François Picard

Industrial Technology Advisor at NRC IRAP and founding member of the Quebec Indigenous

NRCC

Amanda Arciero

Co-founder and Chief of Operations at Airudi

AIRUDI

Observers

Aaron Courville

Scientific Director

IVADO

Ariane Millette-St-Hilaire

Program Administrator

CFREF

Executive Committee

Aaron Courville

Scientific Director

IVADO

Observers

International Advisory Board

Mélanie Bosc

Deputy CEO

IVADO

Aaron Courville

Scientific Director

IVADO

Jennifer Tour-Chayes

Dean, UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society

UC Berkeley

Karine Perset

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

OCDE

Gillian Hadfield

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of AI Alignment and Governance

John Hopkins University

Sabina Leonelli

Professor of Philosophy and History of Science and Technology

Technical University of Munich

Yoshua Bengio

Special Advisor and Founding Scientific Director

IVADO

Scientific committee

Mélanie Bosc

Deputy CEO

IVADO

Aaron Courville

Scientific Director

IVADO

Industrial members

Student Representative

Anne Imouza

PhD candidate in political science

McGill University

Technology transfer committee

Mélanie Bosc

Deputy CEO

IVADO

Academic members

Academic members

Industrial members

Members observing intermediation organization

Member of the student community

Mohamed Amine Elforaici

PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering