Members of the Shared Reality Lab spent the day visiting Hydro Québec's network operations centre. Photo taken in their small training room–from left to right, with Hydro personnel indicated by their roles: Jeff Blum, Hélène Unrein, Laurence Desilets-Benoit (Ergonomic Engineer), Julie Delisle (IT and Software Development), Jeremy Cooperstock, Romane Dubus, Patrick Charpentier (Network Control Centre Manager), Turcotte Simon (Innovation Partnerships Advisor), and Corentin Conan.

Hurrah! Juliette successfully defended her PhD, with many lab members present to cheer her on.

Our heartfelt congratulations to Sabrina, who recently tied the knot!

Our post-doc, Dr. Hélène Unrein (second from right), participated in a visit by the President of the Association Française d'Intelligence Artificielle to the site of the future Montreal University Airport, which is anticipated to open in the spring, and includes an academic research facility, the "Airport Innovation Living Lab.

Congratulations to Sabrina Knappe whose paper, "WILCO: How Prioritizing CPDLC Communication Changes Canadian ATC Operations", has won a Best of Session (BOS) award at the Digital Avionics Systems 2025 conference!

Congratulations to Li Heyang on the recognition of his research by the BMO Responsible AI Fellowship (Senior).

Congratulations to Juliette Regimbal on the Best Poster Award from Eurohaptics 2024 for her work on Investigating Haptic Co-Creation with Reinforcement Learning.

Congratulations to Dr. Élodie Bouzekri, who will be joining the Immersive Natural User Interaction (INUIT) team of the Laboratoire des Sciences et Techniques de l'Information, de la Communication et de la Connaissance (Lab-STICC) of the Université de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO) as an Assistant Professor!