Governance | IVADO

IVADO’s governance structure is guided by the administrative management agreement signed by our three founding universities (HEC Montréal, Polytechnique Montréal and Université de Montréal) and dictated the implementation of our various committees.

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Board of Directors

Gilles Savard

CEO

IVADO

Jean-Marc Rousseau

Director of Technology Transfer

IVADO

Yoshua Bengio

Scientific Director

IVADO

Andrea Lodi

Scientific Co-Director

IVADO

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

Industrial members

Lise Estelle Brault

Senior Director Data, Fintech and Innovation

AMF

Alain Lavoie

President

LexRock AI

Alexandre Le Bouthillier

Co-founder

Imagia

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

Observers

Laurence Beaulieu

Deputy CEO

IVADO

Mathieu Gervais

Assistant Deputy Minister of Science and Innovation

Ministère de l’économie et de l’innovation du Québec

Dominique Lalonde

Research Excellence Fund Program Officer

Canada First Research Excellence Fund

Matthew Nowakowski

Assistant Vice President, Finance

Université de Montréal

Executive Committee

Gilles Savard

CEO

IVADO

Jean-Marc Rousseau

Director of Technology Transfer

IVADO

Yoshua Bengio

Scientific Director

IVADO

Andrea Lodi

Scientific Co-Director

IVADO

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

Technology transfer committee

Office members

Gilles Savard

CEO

IVADO

Jean-Marc Rousseau

Director of Technology Transfer

IVADO

Academic members

Yoshua Bengio

Scientific Director

IVADO

Andrea Lodi

Scientific Co-Director

IVADO

Academic Observers

Olivier Bahn

GERAD Director

GERAD

François Bellavance

Full Professor

HEC Montréal

Nadia Lahrichi

Associate Professor

Polytechnique Montréal

Manuel Morales

Associate Professor

Université de Montréal

Martin Trépanier

Director

CIRRELT

Industrial members

Sylvain Carle

Senior Director, Climate Impact Ecosystem Development

Second Muse

Isabel Cyr

Director of Consulting Services

CAI Global

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

Nada Zogheib

Executive Director

Centre d’entrepreneuriat Poly-UdeM

Observers of intermediation organization

Nadine Beauger

Executive Director

IRICOR

Diane Côté

President and Executive Director

MEDTEQ

Diane Gosselin

Executive Director

CQDM

Luc Sirois

Managing Director

PROMPT

Student Representative

Léa Ricard

Master's degree in computer science

Université de Montréal

Scientific committee

Office members

Gilles Savard

CEO

IVADO

Yoshua Bengio

Scientific Director

IVADO

Andrea Lodi

Scientific Co-Director

IVADO

Academic members

François Bellavance

Full Professor

HEC Montréal

Jean-François Cordeau

Full Professor

HEC Montréal

Aaron Courville

Associate Professor

Université de Montréal

Marc Fredette

Full Professor

HEC Montréal

Emma Frejinger

Associate Professor

Université de Montréal

Geneviève Gauthier

Professor

HEC Montréal

Christopher Pal

Full Professor

Polytechnique Montréal

Claude Perreault

Full Professor

Université de Montréal

Doina Precup

Associate Professor

McGill

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

Laura Gagliano

PhD in Biomedical Engineering

Polytechnique Montréal

International Advisory Committee

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