PEOPLE
Co-directors
![Tristan Glatard Tristan Glatard](/content/concordia/en/research/applied-ai-institute/people/_jcr_content/content-main/grid_container/grid-container-parsys/offset_block_1513917938/adaptiveimage.img.full.medium.jpg/1690391578894.jpg)
Tristan Glatard
Co-Director
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Canada Research Chair (Tier II) on Big Data Infrastructures for Neuroinformatics
Research interests in applied AI
- Big data
- Computing systems
- Neuroinformatics
![Fenwick McKelvey Fenwick McKelvey](/content/concordia/en/research/applied-ai-institute/people/_jcr_content/content-main/grid_container_1621609983/grid-container-parsys/offset_block/adaptiveimage.img.full.medium.jpg/1690391565583.jpg)
Fenwick McKelvey
Co-Director
Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies
Research interests in applied AI
- Internet of Things
- Social media and politics
- Public discourse on AI
Interdisciplinary team
![Lindsay Rodgers Lindsay Rodgers](/content/concordia/en/research/applied-ai-institute/people/_jcr_content/content-main/grid_container_1351301494/grid-container-parsys/offset_block_130239129/adaptiveimage.img.full.medium.jpg/1690391553853.jpg)
Lindsay Rodgers
Advisor, Knowledge Mobilization
Office of the Vice-President, Research & Graduate Studies
![Valeria Kebets Valeria Kebets](/content/concordia/en/research/applied-ai-institute/people/_jcr_content/content-main/grid_container_435730341/grid-container-parsys/offset_block/adaptiveimage.img.full.medium.jpg/1707325810375.jpg)
Valeria Kebets
Manager, Machine Learning Projects
Office of the Vice-President, Research & Graduate Studies
![Alex Megelas Alex Megelas](/content/concordia/en/research/applied-ai-institute/people/_jcr_content/content-main/grid_container_1510751838/grid-container-parsys/offset_block/adaptiveimage.img.full.medium.jpg/1701284800085.jpg)
Alex Megelas
Manager, Research Innovation and Business Development
Office of the Vice-President, Research & Graduate Studies
![Mitali Ruths Mitali Ruths](/content/concordia/en/research/applied-ai-institute/people/_jcr_content/content-main/grid_container_1139384320/grid-container-parsys/offset_block/adaptiveimage.img.full.medium.jpg/1703096857316.jpg)
![Mitali Ruths Mitali Ruths](/content/concordia/en/research/applied-ai-institute/people/_jcr_content/content-main/grid_container_1939082091/grid-container-parsys/offset_block/adaptiveimage.img.full.medium.jpg/1698079906436.jpg)
Meaghan Wester
Responsible AI Coordinator
Office of the Vice-President, Research & Graduate Studies
![Mitali Ruths Mitali Ruths](/content/concordia/en/research/applied-ai-institute/people/_jcr_content/content-main/grid_container_1989566153/grid-container-parsys/offset_block/adaptiveimage.img.full.medium.jpg/1701989625644.jpg)
![Mitali Ruths Mitali Ruths](/content/concordia/en/research/applied-ai-institute/people/_jcr_content/content-main/grid_container_1661637915/grid-container-parsys/offset_block/adaptiveimage.img.full.medium.jpg/1701989600788.jpg)
Shubhang Khattar
Machine Learning Operations Developer
Office of the Vice-President, Research & Graduate Studies
Founding directors
![Ursula Eicker Ursula Eicker](/content/concordia/en/research/applied-ai-institute/people/_jcr_content/content-main/grid_container_1556050669/grid-container-parsys/offset_block_869316461/adaptiveimage.img.full.medium.jpg/1685040980069.jpg)
Kash Khorasani
Founding Director
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Honorary Concordia University Research Chair in Control of Autonomous Network of Unmanned Systems
Research interests in applied AI
- Cyber-physical systems (CPS) and cybersecurity
- Intelligent and autonomous control of networked unmanned systems
- Diagnosis, prognosis, and health management (DPHM) systems
- Adaptive/constructive structure neural networks
![Ursula Eicker Ursula Eicker](/content/concordia/en/research/applied-ai-institute/people/_jcr_content/content-main/grid_container_353489978/grid-container-parsys/offset_block/adaptiveimage.img.full.medium.jpg/1685041052531.jpg)
Nizar Bouguila
Founding Director
Professor, Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering
Research interests in applied AI
- Computer vision and pattern recognition
- Data mining and machine learning
- Smart cities
- Energy and buildings
- Health