Staff
Abhishek Gupta
FounderAlso a Machine Learning Engineer at Microsoft, where he serves on the CSE AI Ethics Review Board to build AI responsibly.
Marianna Ganapini
Researcher (PhD)Also Assistant Professor Of Philosophy at Union College.
Renjie Butalid
Co-FounderAlso the Associate Director of the McGill Dobson Centre, Renjie recently raised $7M+ to power university entrepreneurship.
Camylle Lanteigne
Researcher, Workshop FacilitatorGraduate Student in Public Policy, background in applied environmental awareness.
Allison Cohen
ResearcherAlso a consultant at AI Global. Former AI Strategy Consultant, Deloitte.
Mo Akif
Director of CommunicationsAlso the Editor in Chief at the McGill Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship, and the creator of the Made At McGill podcast.
Tania De Gasperis (away on academic leave)
Researcher, Workshop FacilitatorAlso co-founder of Over Under Inside Out, a Futures-Driven Innovation studio at the intersection of Academia and Practice.
Erick Galinkin
ResearcherPrincipal AI Researcher at Rapid7
Victoria Heath
ResearcherAlso Communications Manager at Creative Commons, and Senior Research Fellow at the NATO Association of Canada.
Connor Wright
ResearcherPhilosophy student at the University of Exeter.
Muriam Fancy
ResearcherMaster's student at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Previously worked in Quantum Information Systems at CIFAR.
Alexandrine Royer
ResearcherAlso administrative coordinator at The Foundation for Genocide Education.
Ryan Khurana
ResearcherFormer executive director of the Institute for Advancing Prosperity. Master of Management Analytics from UofT's Rotman School of Management.
Falaah Arif Khan
Artist in ResidenceCreates software, scientific comics, algorithms, art. Previously a software engineer at Dell EMC.
Audrey Balogh
ResearcherU4 Philosophy student at McGill University interested in how philosophy can be taken out of the armchair and deployed in concrete ways.
Masa Sweidan
Business Development ManagerFinance & Strategic Management at McGill University, Co-President of McGill Business Review.
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Alumni
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)
Tania De Gasperis
Carleton University, OCAD 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)