Let's Talk AI

Guest: Angelique Mohring, Founder and CEO of GainX Bio: Angelique Mohring is the founder and CEO of GainX, where she is on a mission to help large enterprises transform and thrive in the face of disruption. With a background in anthropology, innovation, and digital transformation, Angelique recognized the growing challenge companies face in staying competitive and launched GainX to provide AI-driv...

Guest: Ben Cox, Founder and CEO of Page Bio: Ben Cox is the founder and CEO of Page where they are on a mission to make government relations & public affairs effortless. After a decade at Shopify, Ben founded Page after recognizing that government is big, and only getting bigger, while technology has largely ignored the pain companies of all sizes feel when trying to understand how government...

Guest: Matt Silk, Sessional Instructor, Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo Bio: Matthew Silk is a philosopher at the University of Waterloo, news analyst for the Prindle Post out of DePauw University, and founder of the Ethics of AI Society of Waterloo. Raised in Palmerston Ontario, Matt completed his doctorate at the University of Waterloo with a focus in philosophy of science and v...

Guest: Jeff Nagge, Clinical Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo Bio: Dr. Jeff Nagge is a seasoned clinical associate professor at the University of Waterloo's School of Pharmacy, where he has been instrumental in shaping the next generation of pharmacists since 2006. Born and raised in Mary Hill, just outside of Kitchener-Waterloo, Jeff's journey to academia beg...

PolyML is a dynamic team comprised of data technology innovators and pragmatic business experts dedicated to pioneering new data analytics techniques and applying them to solve complex data challenges for their clients. With a core focus on inventing groundbreaking software for mining insights from data, they blend deep data science expertise with strategic business understanding to deliver previo...

Guest: Sushanta Mitra Bio: Sushanta Mitra is a professor in Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering and the Executive Director of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN). He is an elected fellow of several organizations, including the Canadian Academy of Engineering and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, for his contributions to science and engineering.

Guest: Maura R. Grossman, Research Professor, School of Computer Science; Adjunct Professor at the Osgoode Hall Law School Bio: Dr. Maura R. Grossman is a Research Professor in the School of Computer Science and an Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. Renowned for her work in technology-assisted review in legal proceedings, her research intersects AI, data science, law, and ethics. At the...

Guest: Helen Chen, Professor of Practice; Director, Professional Practice Centre for Health Systems   Bio: Dr. Helen Chen is the Director of Professional Practice Centre  n  for Health Systems; she is also the faculty lead of the Master of Health Informatics Program at the School of Public Health Sciences.  Additionally, she is jointly appointed to both Cheriton School of Computer Science and Stat...

Ellyn Winters-Robinson is a recent breast cancer survivor, co-creator of AskEllyn, and author of the bestselling book "Flat Please Hold the Shame," a girlfriend’s companion guide for those on the breast cancer journey. She is also the co-founder and chief marketing officer of Ignition Communications, a boutique marketing communications firm, and a longtime mentor at The Accelerator Centre....

Guest: Scott Hopkins carries out research in the area of physical chemistry. The Hopkins Laboratory for Spectroscopy and Dynamics Research employs experimental spectroscopy and chemical dynamics techniques in conjunction with high level quantum chemical calculations to decipher the nature of nanocluster systems. His research focuses on three key areas: velocity map imaging, structure and reactivit...

Guest: Chris Eliasmith is the current director of the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience and head of the Computational Neuroscience Research Group (CNRG) within the same institution. His interdisciplinary background in engineering, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience is reflected in his diverse research interests. He primarily focuses on integrating neural and psychological explanations of b...

Guest: Dr.  Victor Cui  is Conrad Research Excellence Chair and a tenured professor in Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Global Strategy at the Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business, University of Waterloo. He is an internationally recognized thought leader, award-winning researcher and teacher in innovation strategy, cooperation and competition, intellectual property rights protection, a...

Will Zhao is an Assistant Professor at the Stratford School, University of Waterloo, specializing in Organization and Human Behaviour. He earned his PhD from Emlyon Business School in France and completed his postdoctoral research at Stanford University as a SCANCOR scholar. Prior to joining Waterloo, he was a faculty member at a Canadian business school and achieved a promotion to tenured associa...

Guest: Edith Law  is an Associate Professor at David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. She also co-directs the Human Computer Interaction Lab. Her education consists of being a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied sciences. She holds a Ph. D. in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University, a Masters in Computer Science...

Guest: Joel Blit is an associate professor of Economics at the University of Waterloo. He completed his bachelor's in Engineering Science at the University of Toronto. He received his MASc in Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo; his MBA at INSEAD; his MA in Economics at Western University and his Ph. D.   in Economics at the University of Toronto. Prior to joining Waterloo, Joel...

Guest: Mark Crowley is an assistant professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo and the ECE Machine Learning Lab director. Mark received his Ph. D. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia working in the Laboratory for Computational Intelligence with David Poole. Before coming to Waterloo, he completed a postdoc at O...

Guest: Sirisha Rambhatla, Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo Bio: Dr. Rambhatla is an Assistant Professor in the Management Sciences Department, Faculty of Engineering with cross appointments with David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science and Systems Design Engineering Department at the University of Waterloo, ON, Canada. Affiliated with  Waterloo AI Institute  and  Waterloo Institute...

Guest: William Melek, Director of RoboHub at the University of Waterloo Bio:  William Melek is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He also serves as the Director of the Laboratory of Computational Intelligence and Automation and the Director of RoboHub.

Guest: Rodney Smith, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo Bio:  Rodney Smith’s research involves the study of electrocatalysts for use in sustainable energy storage systems. His research examines the chemistry of electrode surfaces, measures electron transfer kinetics and probes electrochemical reaction dynamics in an effort to guide the design and fabrication of so...

Guest: Zhao Pan, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo Bio: Zhao Pan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo and the Principal Investigator of the Interdisciplinary Fluid Physics Lab - Pan Lab. Prior to joining Waterloo, he worked at Utah State University and Florid...

Guest: Anindya Sen, Professor at the Department of Economics, Faculty of Arts - University of Waterloo Bio: I was born in Saskatoon and grew up in Calgary and Montreal. However, I spent my teens and young adult life in Nigeria and India. As a result I was exposed to rather extreme differences in economic conditions and material comforts. I became interested in why people in prosperous countries li...

Guest: Ali Ayub, Post-Doctoral fellow at SIRRL at the University of Waterloo Bio: I am a Post-Doctoral fellow at  SIRRL  at the  University of Waterloo  under the supervision of  Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn . I graduated with a Ph. D. degree from   REAL  at   The Pennsylvania State University , under the supervision of Professor Alan R. Wagner. Before joining Penn State, I completed my undergradu...

Guest: Helen Chen, Professor of Practice; Associate Director, Professional Practice Centre for Health Systems Bio: Dr. Helen Chen is the Associate Director of Professional Practice Centre in Health Systems, she is also the faculty lead of the WHISTL research group. Additionally, she is an assistant research professor, jointly appointed to both the School of Public Health and Health Systems and to...

Guest: Gautam Kamath - Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo's Cheriton School of Computer Science. Bio: I am an Assistant Professor at the  University of Waterloo 's  Cheriton School of Computer Science , and a faculty affiliate at the  Vector Institute . I run  The Salon . I'm interested in reliable and trustworthy statistics and machine learning, including considerations...

Guest: Vijay Ganesh - Co-Director, Waterloo. AI, and Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo Bio: Vijay Ganesh is an associate professor at the University of Waterloo's department of  Electrical and Computer Engineering , cross-appointed with the  School of Computer Science  in the Faculty of Math, and the  Co-Director  of the  Waterloo AI Institute . He is also a m...