Office of the CEO
Rosa Ellithorpe
Director, Academic & Government Relations
Erika Hudon-Kaide
Academic Relations & GR Specialist
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Alyssa Lefaivre Škopac
Director, AI Trust & Safety
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Reginald (Reggie) McLean
Applied Research Scientist
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Montaser Mohammedalamen
Applied Research Scientist
Kevin Roice
Machine Learning Engineer
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James Benoit
Postdoctoral Scholar
Michelle Poe
Executive Assistant to the CEO
Advanced Technology
Mara Cairo
Product Owner, Advanced Technology
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Dave Staszak
Lead Machine Learning Scientist
Payam Mousavi
Applied Research Scientist
Soumik Farhan
Machine Learning Scientist
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Xu Han
Machine Learning Scientist
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Anjana Puliyanda
Machine Learning Scientist
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Kunwar Saaim
Machine Learning Scientist
Maithrreye Srinivasan
Machine Learning Scientist
Abdul Wahab
Machine Learning Scientist
Deborah Akaniru
Machine Learning Project Manager
Ryan Peterson
Machine Learning Project Manager
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Brian A. Ssennoga
Machine Learning Project Manager
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Joey Ton
Focus Research Domain Project Manager
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Parnian Behdin
Research Associate
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César Miguel Valdez Córdova
Research Associate
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Hasti Nour Mohammadi Sigaroudi
Research Associate
Anureet Tiwana
Research Associate
Amirhossein Ahmadi
Machine Learning Resident
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Kimia Alaviyar
Machine Learning Resident
Zahra Bashir
Machine Learning Resident
Zo Chapman
Machine Learning Resident
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Ajay Chandramouli, PhD
Machine Learning Resident
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Swathi Gnanasekar
Machine Learning Resident
Swati Kanwal
Machine Learning Resident
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Mohammadamin Samadi Khoshkho
Machine Learning Resident
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Vineetha Kondameedi
Machine Learning Resident
Mobina Mosannafat
Machine Learning Resident
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Ali Parsaee
Machine Learning Resident
Jai Riley
Machine Learning Resident
Justin Rozeboom
Machine Learning Resident
Mutahar Safdar
Machine Learning Resident
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Quazi Asif Sadmine
Machine Learning Resident
Jainam Shah
Machine Learning Resident
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Ashish Sinha
Machine Learning Resident
Elaheh Toulabinejad
Machine Learning Resident
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Akash Venkateshwaran
Machine Learning Resident
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Amirreza Yasami
Machine Learning Resident
Niko Yasui
Machine Learning Resident
Yujia Zhang
Machine Learning Resident
Industry
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James Dang
Product Owner, Industry
David Reid
Lead Machine Learning Scientist
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Sivalingam Ampatishan
Machine Learning Scientist
Ayman Qroon
Machine Learning Scientist
Muhammad Gohar Javed
Associate Machine Learning Scientist
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Negin Khalifat
Associate Machine Learning Scientist
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James McKinnon
Machine Learning Resident
Darryl De Dios
Program Specialist
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Chelsea Ragbir
Program Coordinator
Startups
Amor Provins
Product Owner, Startups
Mitchell McCaig
Technical Product Advisor
Zachary Tchir, P.Eng.
Machine Learning Scientist
Sahir
Machine Learning Scientist
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Swin Ratnayake
Machine Learning Scientist
Mohammed Usama Jasnak
Associate Machine Learning Educator
Hanna Demoz
Program Specialist
Amy Zhu
Program Coordinator
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Training
Adam Danyleyko
Product Owner, Training
Clay Lowe
Manager, AI Workforce Readiness
Jill Kowalchuk
Manager, AI Literacy
Ebby Adewumi
Instructional Designer
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Liam Monaghan
Instructional Designer
Anita Khakh
K-12 Education Advisor
Alexandra Parker
AI Literacy Specialist
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Kyra Palylyk
Program Specialist
Meenakshi Ramanathan
Program Specialist
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Mack Harding
Program Coordinator
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Jovita Patheja
Program Coordinator
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Afia Fairoose Abedin
Machine Learning Educator
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Sumaiya Amin
Machine Learning Educator
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Amreen Anbar
Machine Learning Educator
Rudiney Casali
Machine Learning Educator
Anahita Doosti
Machine Learning Educator
Soroush Razavi
Machine Learning Educator
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Kian Satvati
Machine Learning Educator
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Kara Handley
AI Literacy Specialist
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Marketing & Communications
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Finance, Administration, & IT
Robert Craig
IT Director
Biruk Aschalew
System Administrator, HPC
Olusegun (Nigel) Inetianbor
System Administrator, HPC
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Perry Gordon
System Administrator
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Pooja Prajapati
Cybersecurity Analyst
Jinal Kothari
Project Manager
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Jia You
Controller
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Simon Wondu
Financial Analyst
Amy Wu
Financial Analyst
Emerson Flores
Financial Reporting Analyst
Viktoriia Roik
Team Lead, Finance & Administration (University of Alberta)
Amna Sohail
Research Analyst, Trust Accounts (University of Alberta)
Melanie Calvert
Hiring Support (University of Alberta)
Wes Calvert
Hiring Support (University of Alberta)
Danielle Drozdiak
Expense Advisor (University of Alberta)
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Bobby-Jo Miller
Administrative Assistant, Amii Fellows (University of Alberta)
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Board of Directors
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Joan Hertz
Amii Board Chair
Warren Bergen
President - AVAC Ltd. & Amii Board Member
Zarina Bhambhani
Partner – KPMG & Amii Board Member
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Matina Kalcounis-Rueppell
Dean of Science, University of Alberta & Amii Board Member
John Knubley
Senior Business Consultant – InnovActionJK & Amii Board Member
Elan MacDonald
Vice President, External Relations at the University of Alberta & Amii Board Member
Josh Pantony
Co-Founder & CEO – Boosted.ai & Amii Board Member
Patrick M. Pilarski
Fellow, Canada CIFAR AI Chair & Amii Board Member
Todd Simpson
Partner – Inovia Capital & Amii Board Member
Gerri Sinclair
Managing Director - Kensington Capital & Amii Board Member
Research Fellows
Richard S. Sutton
Fellow, Canada CIFAR AI Chair & Chief Scientific Advisor
Adam White
Fellow, Director of Scientific Operations and Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Mohamed Abdalla
Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Ife Adebara
Fellow
Blair Attard-Frost
Fellow
Abby Azari
Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair
J. Terence Blaskovits
Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Michael Bowling
Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Dieter Büchler
Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Neil Burch
Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Angel X. Chang
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Mo Chen
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Carrie Demmans Epp
Fellow
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Russell Dinnage
Fellow
Alona Fyshe
Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Randy Goebel
Fellow
Russ Greiner
Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Yuhong Guo
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Matthew Guzdial
Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Nidhi Hegde
Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Robert Holte
Fellow
Jacob L. Jaremko
Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Bei Jiang
Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Jun Jin
Fellow
Bailey Kacsmar
Fellow
Majeed Kazemitabaar
Fellow
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Grzegorz (Greg) Kondrak
Fellow
Linglong Kong
Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair
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Quinn Lee
Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Levi Lelis
Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Kevin Leyton-Brown
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Xingyu Li
Fellow
Angelica Lim
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Lei Ma
Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Marlos C. Machado
Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Rupam Mahmood
Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair
J. Ross Mitchell
Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Lili Mou
Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Martin Müller
Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Mi Jung Park
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Patrick M. Pilarski
Fellow, Canada CIFAR AI Chair & Amii Board Member
Elina Robeva
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Geoffrey Rockwell
Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Jonathan Schaeffer
Fellow
Mark Schmidt
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Dale Schuurmans
Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Amber Simpson
Fellow
Nathan R. Sturtevant
Fellow, Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Danica J. Sutherland
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Csaba Szepesvári
Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair
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Tian Tian
Fellow
Xiaoqi Tan
Fellow
Matthew (Matt) E. Taylor
Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair
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Bahareh Tolooshams
Fellow
Martha White
Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Frank Wood
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
James R. Wright
Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Zhou Yang
Fellow
Yutaka Yasui
Fellow
Osmar Zaïane
Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Sandra Zilles
Canada CIFAR AI Chair