Staff

Abhishek Gupta
Founder, Principal Researcher, and DirectorAlso a Machine Learning Engineer at Microsoft, where he serves on the CSE AI Ethics Review Board to build AI responsibly.

Marianna Ganapini, PhD
Faculty DirectorAlso Assistant Professor Of Philosophy at Union College.

Renjie Butalid
Co-Founder and DirectorPreviously the Associate Director of the McGill Dobson Centre, where he raised $8M+ to power university entrepreneurship.

Masa Sweidan
Business Development ManagerFinance & Strategic Management at McGill University, Co-President of McGill Business Review.

Connor Wright
Partnerships ManagerPhilosophy student at the University of Exeter.
Alumni

Mo Akif
Director of Communications
Alexandrine Royer
Educational Program ManagerMPhil student at University of Cambridge.

Muriam Fancy
Network Engagement ManagerMaster's student at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Previously worked in Quantum Information Systems at CIFAR.

Shannon Egan
Research Intern (QM)Working on quantitative analysis project in preparation for submission to the Stanford HAI-OpenAI AI Index Report.

Victoria Heath
Associate Director, Governance & StrategyAlso Communications Manager at Creative Commons, and Senior Research Fellow at the NATO Association of Canada.

Falaah Arif Khan
Artist in ResidenceCreates software, scientific comics, algorithms, art. Previously a software engineer at Dell EMC.

Camylle Lanteigne
Researcher, Workshop FacilitatorGraduate Student in Public Policy, background in applied environmental awareness.

Erick Galinkin
ResearcherPrincipal AI Researcher at Rapid7

Allison Cohen
ResearcherAlso a consultant at AI Global. Former AI Strategy Consultant, Deloitte.

Audrey Balogh
ResearcherPhilosophy student at McGill University interested in how philosophy can be taken out of the armchair and deployed in concrete ways.

Ryan Khurana
Writer-in-ResidenceFormer executive director of the Institute for Advancing Prosperity. Master of Management Analytics from UofT's Rotman School of Management.

Tania De Gasperis
Researcher, Workshop FacilitatorCo-founder of Over Under Inside Out, a Futures-Driven Innovation studio at the intersection of Academia and Practice. Previous MAIEI intern.

Mirka Snyder Caron
Sr. AssociatePreviously a MAIEI staff member (Senior Associate). Now Senior Legal Advisor in Digital Banking and Innovation at RBC.

Jordan Harrod
Cornell University, MIT, Harvard University (United States)
Jason Behrmann
Universite de Montreal, McGill University (Canada)
Belona Sonna
African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (Cameroon)
Kate Kaye
Buffalo State College (United States)
Ezinne Nwankwo
Harvard University (United States)
Laura Stiller
University of Regensburg, Copenhagen Business School (Germany)
Aparna Ashok
Luther College, Hyper Island (United Kingdom)
Alka Patel
University of Pittsburgh, Duquesne University, Carnegie Mellon University (United States)
Jacques Thibodeau
Université de Moncton (Canada)
Parisa Moosavi
Virginia Tech, University of Toronto, York University (Canada)
Keziah Naggita
Makerere University, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (Uganda)
Sondra Green
University of Guelph, Georgian College (Canada)
Adrien Morisot
McGill University, University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom)
Alicia Tsai
National Taiwan University, UC Berkeley (United States)