Climate change, smart cities, health care, transportation, aerospace, cybersecurity, privacy and trust Concordia researchers have been applying artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to these problems for years.
Now, they're joining forces under the university's newly launched Applied AI Institute.
Today, the institute announced the appointment of Tristan Glatard and Fenwick McKelvey as co-directors, to further its interdisciplinary activities, partnerships and interests.
"It's my privilege to continue the extraordinary contributions made by my colleagues," says Glatard, professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science.
"The institute has grown exponentially in a very short time since its inception last year. Moving forward, my work will strive to be representative of the excellence they brought to the table, and will amplify the innovation that research at Concordia brings to the global AI ecosystem."
Glatard holds the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) on Big Data Infrastructures for Neuroinformatics. Before coming to Concordia in 2016, he was a research scientist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research and a visiting scholar at McGill University.
In his research, Glatard designs infrastructures to enable efficient, open and reproducible neuroinformatics which have applications in medical image analysis and neuroimaging.
In 2021, Glatard co-founded the Applied AI Institute along with Gina Cody School professors Kash Khorasani from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Nizar Bouguila from the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering.
