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Excellence, full steam ahead! Mid-term report 2016-2020
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Halfway through… “We can be proud of everything At this key moment in our history, we are still
living out our original mission each day:
With the strength of our academic
background and our credible,
we have accomplished and
but not doing
to accelerate Canada’s digital transformation world-class expertise in digital
the opportunities we have by being a catalyst for progress in research into intelligence, we once again
harnessing the power of big data to support reaffirm our four core values:
things halfway. created in just a few short years!” decision-making. The entire IVADO team and
our community are united behind this inspiring
Talent, Knowledge, Transfer,
and Community, as well as our
goal as well as our desire to leverage the potential mission and our priorities.
of research in digital intelligence, particularly research
On behalf of our entire team,
at the crossroads of machine learning and operations
our members, partners, and staff,
research, which is one of Québec’s greatest
Looking back over how far we have come since The Montréal Declaration, which we would like to thank the Canada
strengths. With the support of our community,
the launch of IVADO in September 2016, we firmly support and even helped First Research Excellence Fund,
we are also working to bring this research to society,
the progress we have made is dizzying. We can to write, is an ethical compass to as well as the Ministère de
by transforming it into concrete applications
be proud of everything we have accomplished guide the development of artificial l’Économie et de l’Innovation (MEI)
and benefits for as many people as possible.
and the opportunities we have created in just intelligence towards morally and and the Fonds de recherche
a few short years! These experiences have also socially desirable goals. We are The results we have achieved in under 4 years du Québec (FRQ) for their belief
taught us valuable lessons for our long-term success. committed to continuing to strengthen are far beyond our initial expectations. Thanks to in us and their precious support
this ethical framework, which also the steady pace of our program delivery, we are for our development!
It is clear that the Canada First Research Excellence
promotes human rights as a catalyst able to focus on the deployment of major structuring
Fund has been a key factor in allowing a number
for the responsible development research projects that you will learn more about
of post-secondary institutions to focus their efforts
of artificial intelligence. in this report. Gilles Savard
on developing fundamental knowledge on a global
CEO, IVADO
scale in areas that create, and will continue As you will discover as you peruse This approach will allow us to help consolidate
to create through the application of this knowledge, this document, which offers just national and international innovation networks,
long-term social and economic advantages a glimpse of all that we have accelerate the development of national partnerships
for Canada. It is our responsibility to build on these accomplished in record time, outside Québec and increase our activities with
transformative investments to strengthen the the second half of our term promises our international partners.
initiatives that enable Canada to excel internationally to be stimulating and encouraging.
in this strategic sector. As we continue to support the major programs
we have put into place since our creation, we will
Despite the tragic nature of the COVID-19 crisis, it is spare no effort to improve Canada’s position,
Marie-Josée Hébert
also a vector of innovation in that it has made the and Québec’s in particular, as a global catalyst
IVADO Chairman of the Board
digital transformation of our society a priority. Our call Vice-Rector of Research, for developing digital intelligence.
for proposals for ways to fight the pandemic allowed Discovery, Creation and Innovation
us to directly fund nine groundbreaking projects Université de Montréal With our strong industrial membership and a desire
that are already showing real results. This call for to increase the transfer of knowledge to organizations’
proposals demonstrated our ability, as well as that of specialists in these fields, we aim to mobilize national
our community, to adapt to crisis and support group and international actors in digital intelligence to work
efforts, thereby making a difference. on structuring projects in key application areas.
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“With the support of our community, we are
also working to bring this research to society,
by transforming it into concrete uses and benefits
for as many people as possible.”
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Where every
possibility
is granted
IVADO is a collaborative institute Talent Knowledge Transfer Community
created by Campus Montréal Training highly qualified Increasing and improving Supporting learning about Making Montréal the hub
(Université de Montréal (UdeM), scientists and managers scientific research digital intelligence by companies of a strong international
Polytechnique Montréal (Poly) and in digital intelligence to meet in digital intelligence. and the community, network of excellence
HEC Montréal (HEC)). It is dedicated the market’s increasing needs. technology transfer to industry in digital intelligence.
and entrepreneurship.
to digital intelligence (DI), which
includes data science, machine
learning, and operations research.
In its vision outlined for Canada
First in 2016, and to support the
emergence of a digital intelligence
(DI) ecosystem capable of
First things
stimulating Québec and Canada’s first
economic and social development,
IVADO proposed a scientific
strategy based on 4 pillars. The grant that IVADO was awarded
by Canada First is seen as the starting point
for Montréal’s emergence as a world leader
in DI research.
Since 2016, governments, major national
and international companies, and venture
capital firms have invested nearly $2 billion
in this DI sector.
Guided by the values of excellence and
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collaboration, the IVADO team believes that data
and algorithms are able to transform the world we
live in and hold incredible potential for innovation.
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IVADO
in figures
69 +
1400
In under four years, IVADO has
managed to reach or greatly exceed
+
9000
fundamental
research projects
funded
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industrial members
scientists in the
IVADO community
41 out of 45 goals set for 2023 by
leveraging the high concentration of persons-day and more than
specialists in data science, operations trained 20 network
research and machine learning in
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and international
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Montréal.
partners
Many of these specialists are affiliated
with IVADO’s 13 academic partners
550
and 7 academic members: the Centre IVADO
de Recherche Mathématiques, new
professors
273
the Canada Excellence Research research
Chair in Data Science for Real- recruited chairs created
Time Decision-Making, the Centre
Interuniversitaire de Recherche
DI events
sur les Réseaux d’Entreprises, with IVADO’s collaborative
la Logistique et le Transport (CIRRELT), participation
423
projects involving
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the Consortium Santé Numérique,
the Group for Research in Decision
135 companies
Analysis (GERAD), Mila and and 169 researchers
the Tech3lab.
student and from 13 universities
postdoctoral ($48 million) international
scholarships delegations
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($19 million) awarded
IVADO
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Talent
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IVADO’s network of partners is made up of key resources
dedicated to innovation and who naturally stimulate
+
9000
research and mobilize knowledge. IVADO has developed persons-day
Talent
Innovation’s
an exceptional network that is constantly changing
to attract the best talent to a project as inspiring
trained
6 job and
internship fairs
as the digital transformation of our society. 148 organisations
power of more than 3000
IVADO’s training environment is also always changing. participants
attraction With the support of its staff, IVADO is expanding
and supporting the creation of training programs
33 training
programs
and activities to develop talent, because knowledge 29 schools and workshops
4 online courses
feeds off ideas, interactions, doubts, and more questions
than answers.
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Schools and workshops MOOC Partnerships
The complete “From data Online courses are more $1 million
Talent to decision” training program accessible than ever, and their Future skills
explores recent advances in digital training programs respond
Innovation’s intelligence in an accessible, to companies’ needs. In particular, $240 K
power of flexible, and independent way. we have developed: Nova Science
Among others, we can cite the
attraction following: w Deep Learning Essentials
A collaboration between
w 5 editions of IVADO-Mila-UdeM
the IVADO-Mila
Deep learning school w Bias and Discrimination in AI
A collaboration between
w 4 editions of the finance IVADO-UdeM
and insurance workshop
with Fin-ML
Scale AI-IVADO
Collaboration
The new national digital
intelligence talent development
program includes public
and corporate training aiming
at training 45,000 professionals
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in 4 years.
DEEP LEARNING MOOC
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Scholarships and grants Professors Chairs
To help support the next generation The first recruitment program that Development and creation
of students, IVADO has developed a program was launched was designed to attract of research chairs.
to support digital intelligence research. world-class human capital to Montréal.
91 IVADO researchers
Talent 423 scholarships and grants have been 27 professors recruited hold a Chair
awarded to 404 students and postdocs
Humans are our to date (+ $19 million) including:
w 11 UdeM
44 chairs earned in 3 years
w 8 Poly
greatest asset w 144 research initiation scholarships w 1 Canada Excellence
w 8 HEC Research Chair (CERC)
w 63 graduate scholarships
Human capital is the heart and w 8 Canada Research Chairs (CRC)
w 59 postdoctoral funding grants
soul of everything we do at IVADO.
w 19 Canada AI Chairs - CIFAR
The IVADO team and community, w 157 scholarships and grants
including its professors, students from all cycles resulting w 3 FRQ-IVADO Chairs
and researchers, are constantly from structuring projects
pushing the boundaries of w 13 industrial and institutional chairs
knowledge. Through the support
of Canada First, its members and
partner companies, IVADO has They’re part of our community!
been able to attract and mobilize
a unique constellation of thinkers. Laura Gagliano Benoît Dupont
Poly, co-President of the IVADO Student Margarida Carvalho UdeM
Committee UdeM Canada Research Chair in Cybersecurity
Artificial Neural Networks and Bispectrum IVADO Professor and Chair in Cybercrime Prevention
for Epileptic Seizure Prediction (Desjardins / National Bank)
Larry Dong
McGill University, University of Bordeaux Guy Wolf Irina Rish
Evaluating the use of generalized dynamic UdeM UdeM, Canada Research Chair
weighted ordinary least squares IVADO Professor Autonomous Artificial Intelligence
for individualized HIV treatment strategies + Canada AI Chairs - CIFAR
Alexandra Luccioni François Laviolette
Amal Zouaq
UdeM Université Laval, Canada AI Chair - CIFAR
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Poly
Using Generative Adversarial Networks NSERC-Intact Financial Industrial Research Chair
IVADO Professor
to Visualize the Impacts of Climate Change in Machine Learning for Insurance
Enora Georgeault
Jian Tang Foutse Khomh
HEC
HEC Poly
Predictive Models of Canadian Red Cross
IVADO
IVADO Professor IVADO-FRQ Chair
Donation Allocation in Response to Forest Fires
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Yoshua Bengio Andrea Lodi
Recognized as one of the His work in operations research
world’s leading experts in has led to many distinctions
Talent artificial intelligence and and awards and has contributed
a pioneer in deep learning. to the advancement of
Scientists w Founder and Scientific Director innovative projects.
in the of Mila, the Québec Artificial
w CERC chairholder on data science
Intelligence Institute
spotlight for real-time decision-making
w 2018 ACM Turing Award
w Award for the best article
The old saying holds true at IVADO: w Killam Prize from CRSNG in Computational Optimization
two heads are better than one. and Applications
Since machine learning (ML)
and operations research (OR)
w Google Faculty Research Award
are a dynamic duo in terms
of digital intelligence, we have
appointed a Scientific Director
and Co-Director whose skills
and influence in these two areas
are second to none.
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IVADO
Knowledge11
The breakthroughs in digital intelligence research +66
supported by IVADO can be felt in several critical prizes
areas, including health, natural resources, and awards
Knowledge
transportation and logistics, finance and trade.
These impacts are making waves in the research 69
Research takes
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ecosystem. Among the highlights is the flagship research
centre stage paper “Machine Learning for Combinatorial projects
Optimization: a Methodological Tour d’Horizon” valued at $12.4 million,
scientific with the involvement
published by Yoshua Bengio (UdeM), Andrea Lodi publications of more than 140 students
(Poly) and Antoine Prouvost (Poly). surpasses the goal and postdoctoral
set for 2023 researchers
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Some examples of :
Projects funded Collaborations/articles
The research of Julie Hussin (UdeM) IVADO
Knowledge 2019 Québec Science Discovery of the Year: IVADO professor
professor and researcher at the Montreal Sébastien Lemieux (UdeM) participated in the discovery
Advancing Heart Institute (MHI), focuses on making
better use of biomedical data to improve,
of new medicines based on the immunotherapy work
of Claude Perreault (UdeM) and Pierre Thibault (ULaval).
health among other things, preventive and
research personalized medicine. Collaboration and support for the creation of the strategic
CITADEL, the CHUM’s Centre d’intégration cluster FRQ UNIQUE (Unifying AI and Neuroscience - Québec) for
Digital intelligence has found a et d’analyse de données médicales, its work at the crossroads of natural and artificial intelligence.
particularly fertile breeding ground is a platform that facilitates the sharing
in the health field. Research by
of medical data within a healthcare Joint competition with Génome Québec and the Oncopole:
professors affiliated with IVADO
institution. Michaël Chassé (UdeM), “Omics Data Against Cancer”: $1.5 million to support cancer
has enabled the development
an IVADO professor, is its scientific director. research through data.
of major multidisciplinary initiatives
that will improve people’s quality
of life. Nine projects ($0.5 million Contribution to the creation of the Consortium Santé Numérique,
in investments) were generated which has become one of IVADO’s academic members.
through an unsolicited call for
projects to fight the COVID-19
pandemic.
Bourses et subventions
Dang K. Nguyen Nadia Lahrichi Professor Guy Wolf's research
UdeM Poly
Real-time detection and prediction Reactive/learning/self-adaptive in applying a machine learning
of epileptic seizures using deep learning metaheuristics for healthcare to single cell data mining
on sparse wavelet representations resource scheduling
has been used, among other
things, to study cross-immunity
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An Tang between dengue fever and
Elen Jackson
UdeM
UdeM
Predictive model of colorectal
the zika virus.
Evaluation of a Directed Acyclic Graph
cancer liver metastases response
for Cysticercosis using Multiple Methods
to chemotherapy
IVADO13
Some examples of :
Projects funded Collaborations / articles
Under the supervision of François Soumis IVADO works in particular with 6 transportation companies
Knowledge (Poly), Alice Wu (Poly) is working to develop an open-source software containing a platform
on flight planning and crew scheduling, for the design, planning and simulation of public and alternative
Advancing a very complex and costly challenge transport networks. The Chair in Transportation Transformation,
in civil aviation. led by Bernard Gendron (UdeM) and his team, develops tools,
research methods and strategies to optimize transportation supply and
Aurélie Labbe (HEC) and her team
in transportation are using different methods of data demand management to help reduce costs and greenhouse
gas emissions. IVADO is also working with the CIRRELT
and logistics analysis to improve urban mobility.
team to develop hybrid operational research and machine
learning models in the field of logistics and maritime and land
In the transportation and transportation (rail and road).
logistics sector, which is a very
dynamic industrial and academic
environment, IVADO is active
in networks that drive digital
intelligence both locally Scholarships and grants
and internationally.
Léa Ricard
UdeM, Co-President
of the IVADO Student Committee
Modelling the probability of acceptance
of a route in a carpooling context
Élodie Deschaintres
Poly
Modelling interactions between modes of
transport by integrating diverse data sources
Joelle Cormier
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HEC, communications Manager
for the IVADO Student Committee
Analysis of emergency air transport in remote
parts of Québec
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Some examples of :
Projects funded Finance and trade
Cédric Poutré (UdeM) : Statistical Arbitrage of
Energy Internationally Interlisted Stocks
Knowledge Michel Bernier (Poly)
Development of a methodology
Advancing for using big data from smart meters Collaborations / articles
research in to model a group of buildings. Energy
energy, finance Finance and trade
Michel Denault (HEC)’s work on improving
decision-making has enabled Rio Tinto
and trade Both Manuel Morales’ (UdeM) work reach optimal hydroelectric production.
on the applicability of AI models in the
In these ever-changing sectors, financial sector and Geneviève Gauthier’s Finance and trade
always in search of new technology work on using big data to better model In collaboration with NSERC-CREATE,
and which generate massive
the components of equity returns, IVADO participated in the creation and funding
amounts of data, there are
many digital intelligence projects highlight IVADO’s impact on markets. of Fin-ML. This Canadian network brings together
in the works! Here are just researchers who work on the application
a few examples.
Scholarships and grants of machine learning to quantitative finance
and business intelligence.
Energy
A study by postdoctoral student
Martim Joyce-Moniz (Poly), on the
adoption of electric vehicles
in Québec as a result of the optimal
placement of charging stations,
which now allows Hydro-Québec
to make better investment decisions.
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IVADO develops and reinforces the ties between
its industrial members and the best academic 19
resources, supported by a team of 13 partnership project
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advisors. By fostering collaborative research launch grants
Transfer projects and supporting structuring projects awarded
focused on interdisciplinarity and co-construction,
Unity creates IVADO has emerged as a key player in the rise
collaborative
projects
opportunities
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of Montréal and Canada as a digital intelligence industrial More than $48
innovation hub. members million invested
43 start-ups
39 SMEs
27 major companies
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Spotlight on some of our innovative projects!
Transfer
Changing
the world
Imagia develops digital medical innovations improving
of healthcare the health of cancer patients and others with high-
burden diseases. With the Terry Fox Research Institute,
Imagia was granted up to $49M from the Strategic
Innovation Fund (SIF). It led to the creation of the DHDP
platform, together with the contributions from 97
consortium partners, is well over a $200M initiative that
aims to accelerate precision medicine and advance
pan-Canadian healthcare innovation.
Nadia Lahrichi (Poly) and Anjali Awasthi (Concordia) Andrea Lodi (Poly) and Héloïse Cardinal (CHUM)
are working on optimizing the logistics of patient are working on improving kidney transplant risk assessment
transportation and accommodation and avoiding and optimizing donor-recipient matching as part of
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discontinuation of treatment in cooperation the Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research
with the Québec Breast Cancer Foundation. Program (CDTRP).
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Spotlight on some of our innovative projects!
Transfer The DEEL (DEpendable Explainable Learning)
project is a France-Québec project that aims to
Changing certify AI algorithms for use in critical systems in
the aeronautics, automotive and rail industries.
the world of
Some key indicators:
transportation
and logistics w 20 researchers
w 12 industries
w $35 million
True North Marine and researchers Marie-Ève Rancourt (HEC), Emma Frejinger (UdeM), along with
from ULaval, UQTR and HEC Montréal leads collaborative humanitarian other scientists from IVADO and DIRO,
are leading a project to optimize logistics projects with the Red Cross/ proposed a new methodology using
shipping routes around the world to Red Crescent, the UN World Food machine learning techniques to assist
balance freight costs and reduce fuel Programme and Québec food banks. Canadian National in solving the
consumption. This initiative will improve puzzle of train configurations and
current route planning models and container loading and optimizing
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reduce the carbon footprint. its railway operations.
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Spotlight on some of our innovative projects!
Start-up horoma AI is working
Transfer with Hydro-Québec on vegetation
monitoring near its power lines
Changing by developing an AI platform
that will identify vegetation criteria
the world using mobile LiDAR data and
of energy, images.
finance
and trade
Hydro-Québec is working with The regulatory division of the Montréal The Tech3Lab team at HEC Montréal
Sébastien Le Digabel (Poly) and Exchange is leading a project to detect studied user experiences on
Charles Audet (Poly) of GERAD on black fraudulent transactions through transactional platforms related to the
boxe optimization, which is very useful the design of a new AI algorithm financial sector as part of a project
for improving functions that require that can detect anything that appears conducted in collaboration with the
computer simulations that are costly to out of the ordinary, so that analysts National Bank.
evaluate and whose characteristics are can focus on these alerts. The project
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not known or usable. is carried out with Manuel Morales
(UdeM), Gilles Caporossi (HEC) and
Didier Chételat (Poly).
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Spotlight on some of our innovative projects!
IVADO has participated in the creation of a community Airudi uses machine learning
of practice in NLP bringing together 19 companies and algorithms to optimize
Transfert several researchers from 5 universities. The monthly recruitment processes.
'meet-ups' of the community allow knowledge transfer
Changing and present an opportunity for industrial scientists
the landscape to stay up to date on the state of the art in different
of communications sub-domains. The community will also allow for the
development of consortium-type research projects Irosoft simplifies document
Through its support for research on involving several companies and researchers. anonymization using applied
natural language processing (NLP), Such a project is currently in the development phase research in computational
a field of AI that is omnipresent in
under the direction of Professors Alain Tapp (UdeM) linguistics in collaboration
our lives as a result of advances in
deep learning, IVADO is helping to and Will Hamilton (McGill), in collaboration with with UdeM's RALI laboratory.
improve communications between Leila Kosseim (Concordia) and Philippe Langlais (UdeM).
people, organizations and cultures.
As search engines, translation
tools and other intelligent virtual
assistants improve, our interactions
become faster and simpler.
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Transfer Datapreneur program IVADO is also involved in continuing
the problem-solving workshops organized by
Stimulating w Poly-UdeM
the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM),
business w 39 start-ups where industry professionals work with researchers
and students to solve DI issues.
intelligence w More than 20 company projects per year
IVADO is extremely active The postdoctoral program in entrepreneurship
in promoting entrepreneurship seeks to produce a marketable prototype
and encourages connections
between the projects it supports
and has 4 recipients, including:
and the members of its network.
Entrepreneurial ambitions are Marc-André Renaud
a natural result within its cohorts. Gray Oncology: A contract with CHUM
to optimize the use of radiotherapy resources
for cancer treatment.
Selçuk Güven
Using AI to screen and diagnose speech
and language disorders in children.
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In less than three years, IVADO has built,
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Community
mobilized and galvanized an impressive network
of expertise and businesses that is spreading
7 industrial
members
the influence of digital intelligence from Montréal academic
Unity makes and Canada around the world. members
strength
With more than 140 academic, institutional, 8
in data industrial and government partners in its community,
the ecosystem’s dedication to leveraging 13 network
partners 14
the potential of digital intelligence for the social academic international
and economic development of our societies partners partners
has far surpassed its initial expectations.
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The IVADO
community
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Attracting and retaining the world’s Establishment of an IVADO Student
best and brightest international students Committee to respond to students’ needs
in digital intelligence. and strengthen social, professional
Community
and academic ties within the IVADO
Act Enrolment evolution from 2016 to 2019 student community.
w +80 % at UdeM
locally
w +79 % at HEC Significant investments in infrastructure
The growing international w +68 % at Poly
and research facilities, including the creation
importance of IVADO’s research, of a new DI hub in Montréal:
and its contribution to the
development of Québec’s AI The rapid increase in the number w 100,000 sq. ft. in the Mile-Ex neighborhood
strategy, is a testament to of AI labs of international groups w Brings together Mila, Imagia, Cortaix (Thales), Boralis (RBC),
the fact that the Canada First
grant is central to Canada’s
that have moved to Montréal and Forum IA, Microsoft, Next AI, IVADO Labs and Scale AI
transformation into a hub for research projects with global players
innovation in digital intelligence. is a testament to the recognition
of IVADO’s position.
Creation of communities of practice
for better knowledge sharing
and business networking:
w Industrialization of AI
w Agri-food industry
w Aerospace
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Community Development of the International +6 research projects
Observatory on the Societal Impacts with Atlanstic2020.
Think of AI and Digital Technology (OBVIA),
globally with the support of: Student and faculty exchanges with,
w 9 universities in particular, the African Institute
IVADO has managed to stand for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS).
out from the crowd by measuring w 125 Canadian and international organizations
itself against the best in the w 8 interns/5 women
w 200 researchers in Québec
world, thanks to its researchers’
exceptional work in digital
w Watch the video!
intelligence, and Campus Montréal
has become one of the three most
successful universities in the world The Mobilit.AI international forum:
in this field. As part of its strategy
a community of AI experts for critical systems
to strategically further its greatest
strengths on the world stage, in the field of transport and mobility.
IVADO plans to forge even closer
ties between Canadian digital w IRT Saint Exupéry
intelligence players and major
w Consortium for Research and Innovation in
international partners. Here are
a few notable international Aerospace in Quebec (CRIAQ)
initiatives in which IVADO w Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse
has participated.
Institute (ANITI)
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Community Talent Institutions Expertise
Equity, Increasing the participation and voices Consulting and working together to Providing incentives to promote the
of under-represented groups in digital overcome structural and institutional contributions of people from minority
Diversity intelligence in order to expand the talent barriers to the inclusion of these groups groups and developing work on EDI topics
and Inclusion and idea pool in the ecosystem,
through initiatives such as the internship
through education and employment,
in particular through the creation of
in DI in order to improve research excellence
and the quality of DI projects, by deploying
program to support up-and-coming African the Québec Interuniversity EDI Network, initiatives such as an online course on bias
The under-representation scientists with AIMS, the SEUR Project’s workshops and materials to raise and discrimination in AI developed with
of women, members of visible
1000 Sciences section, Camp Découverte awareness with a cross-disciplinary Mila, or funding research projects on equity
minority groups, Indigenous
Techno, the Québec Indigenous Sciences focus for internal and external members issues.
peoples, persons with disabilities
and members of other Fair, Parité Science and AI4Good of the IVADO network.
marginalized groups, as well Summer Lab.
as systemic barriers to inclusion
and diversity (e.g., algorithmic
and unconscious biases) are major
issues in the DI field. IVADO is taking
the lead on these issues in the DI
community by developing and
implementing an EDI framework
that focuses on these three areas.
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Here is an overview of these initiatives.
As the digital transformation of our society w Montréal Declaration for a Responsible Development
of Artificial Intelligence
Community gains speed, it brings with it both positive
and negative impacts. Alongside the issues w Establishment of the Algora Lab to develop a deliberative ethics
Promoting of equity, diversity and inclusion, of machine learning
ethical digital the ethical issues surrounding the use w Martin Gibert’s research on raising awareness of current
and future ethical issues related to digital intelligence, including his
of digital intelligence tools are also a central
intelligence focus of debate.
book aimed at a general audience, “Faire la morale aux robots”
w 4 editions of IVADO’s Carrefour de philanthropie de données
IVADO and its community take part in w Joint sponsorship of a postdoctoral fellowship with OBVIA:
a number of initiatives designed to encourage “Pouvoir, inégalités et discriminations en IA”
the development, democratization w Support for the Montreal Speaker Series in the Ethics of AI
and responsible and sustainable transfer w Joint support, with the FRQ and OBVIA, for the creation
of digital intelligence. of the Humaniteq podcast
w Support for the 2019 Cafés de bioéthique
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