Team
Aaron Courville
Assoc. Professor, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research (DIRO). Founding member, Mila. Fellow, CIFAR Learning in Machines and Brains. CIFAR Canadian AI Chair.
Co-investigator. Université de Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
Archer Pechawis
Asst. Professor, Visual Art & Art History. Performance Artist, New Media Artist, Filmmaker, Writer, Curator and Educator.
Co-investigator. York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Ashley Cordes
Asst. Professor, Indigenous Studies.
Co-investigator. University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA.
Blake Richards
Asst. Professor, Montréal Neurological Institute (Neuro) and School of Computer Science. Core Faculty at Mila. Fellow, CIFAR Learning in Machines and Brains Program. Lab Scientist, Creative Destruction Lab. Member, Learning in Neural Circuits Lab.
Co-investigator. McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
Bryan Kuwada
Asst. Professor, Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies and Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge.
Co-investigator. University of Hawai‘i, Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA.
Eilif Muller
Asst. Professor, Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Mila member.
Eliane Ubalijoro
CEO, and Research Assoc. Professor, Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment.
Co-investigator. Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry, Nairobi, Kenya, and Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Fenwick Mckelvey
Assoc. Professor, Information and Technology Policy, Department of Communication Studies. Co-director, Applied AI Institute. Director, Machine Agencies, Milieux Institute.
Co-investigator. Concordia University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
Fox Harrell
Full Professor, Digital Media & AI in the Comparative Media Studies Program and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Co-investigator. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA.
Guillaume Dumas
IVADO Assoc. Professor, Computational Psychiatry at CHU Sainte-Justine research center. Associate Academic Member of Mila.
Heather Igloliorte
Assoc. Professor, Indigenous Art History and University Research Chair in Indigenous Circumpolar Arts.
Co-investigator. Concordia University in Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
Hēmi Whaanga
Full Professor, Te Pūtahi a Toi in the School of Māori Knowledge, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa, New Zealand.
Co-director. Massey University, Palmerston North, Aotearoa.
Holly Grimm
Machine Learning Engineer and Artist.
Collaborator. Sustia LLC, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
Jackie Cheug
Assoc. Professor, School of Computer Science; Canada CIFAR AI Chair Mila; Co-Director, Reasoning and Learning Lab; Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music; Centre for Intelligent Machines.
Jackie Rice
Full Professor, Mathematics and Computer Science Department.
Co-investigator. University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
Jason Leigh
Co-director, Indigenous Futures Research Center. University Research Chair, Computational Media and the Indigenous Future Imaginary. Full Professor, Design and Computation Arts.
Nominated Principal and Project Co-director. Concordia University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
Jason Lewis
Professor of Design and Computation Arts.
Project Director based at Concordia University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
Jackson Twobears
Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts Research & Technology. Assoc. Professor, Art Studio, Faculty of Fine Arts.
Johnson Witehira
Doctor. Director, Indigenous Design and Innovation Aotearoa. Co-founder Āpōpō Indigenous Co-working Space.
Collaborator. Wellington, New Zealand.
Jonathan L. Deenik
Full Professor, Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, Hawai'i.
Co-investigator. University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Hawai’i, USA.
Kamuela Enos
Lecturer, Department of Urban and Regional Planning; Director, Social Enterprise MA`O Organic Farms.
Co-investigator. University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Hawai’i, USA.
Karim Jerbi
Full Professor, Psychology. Canada Research Chair in Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuroimaging. Director at UNIQUE. Assoc. Professor at Mila.
Kelsey Amos
Educator. Co-founder and director at Purple Maiʻa Foundation.
Collaborator. Hawai’i, USA.
Kiera Ladner
Canada Research Chair, Assoc. Professor, Political Studies.
Co-investigator. University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Keolu Fox
Asst.Professor, Department of Anthropology and Co-founder, Native BioData Consortium.
Co-investigator. University of California: San Diego, California, USA.
Krystal Tsosie
Asst. Professor, School of Life Sciences, and Co-founder, Native BioData Consortium.
Co-investigator. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
Leroy Littlebear
Special Advisor to the President, Distinguished Niitsitapi Scholar, Indigenous Studies.
Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Of Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Porou, and Tūhourangi, Distinguished Professor; Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (CNZM).
Co-investigator. Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi, Whakatāne, Aotearoa.
Manulani Aluli Meyer
Philosophy of education, Associate specialist of student affairs.
Co-investigator. University of Hawai'i, West O'ahu, Hawai’i, USA.
Melanie Cheug
Independent neuroscientist.
Co-investigator. Aotearoa.
Michelle Lee Brown
Asst. Professor, Indigenous Knowledge, Data Sovereignty and Decolonization.
Co-investigator. Washington State University, WA, USA.
Oiwi Parker Jones
Doctor, Hugh Price Fellow.
Co-investigator. Jesus College Oxford, United Kingdom.
Pou Temara
Full Professor, Te Reo, Tikanga and Philosophy. Member, Tūhoe Waikaremoana Māori Trust Board. Chair, Te Hui Ahurei a Tūhoe.
Co-investigator. Waikato University, Hamilton, Aotearoa.
Sara Diamond
President Emerita; Appointed, Order of Canada; Appointee,the Order of Ontario and the Royal Canadian Society of Artists.
Co-investigator. OCAD University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Scott Benesiinaabanda
Intermedia artist.
Co-investigator. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Susan Crow
Assoc. Professor of Soil Ecology and Biogeochemistry at the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources; affiliate of Water Resources Research Center.
Co-investigator. University of Hawai'i Manoa, Hawai’i, USA.
Yoshua Bengio
Full Professor. Founder and Scientific Director of Mila; co-director at CIFAR Learning in Machines & Brains program as Senior Fellow; Scientific Director of IVADO.
Painting by Sergio Garzon. IP-AI © 2019.
