Andrea participates in Academy on AI in Healthcare, Medicine, and Biology
Andrea received a fellowship to support her participation in the 23rd International Summer Academy on AI in Healthcare, Medicine, and Biology in Chalkida, Greece.
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Henrique participates in Mila Venture Scientist bootcamp
Henrique was selected to participate in the Mila Venture Scientist Bootcamp to pursue his proposed internention of Motivational Interviewing as a means to tackle the enormous societal problem of compulsive consumption of social media.
D-SITE CREATE awarded
Delighted to announce that we’re part of the recently awarded NSERC CREATE grant in Disrupting Surgery with Interventional Technology and Engineering and looking to recruit qualified graduate and postdoctoral researchers with interest in tackling engineering challenges related to surgical technology, medical devices, and healthcare innovation. Partial funding is available to support eligible candidates in the program.
FRQ scholarships
Congratulations to Lucero and Andrea, both of whom were awwarded graduate scholarships from FRQNT to support their M.Sc. thesis activities.
CIRMMT Student Awards
Congratulations to Lucero Fuentes Ramos and Segun Samuel, recipients of the CIRMMT Student Award, to carry out and continue their respective interdisciplinary projects with peers in Design and Computation Arts (Lucero) and Information Studies (Segun).
Andrea participates in MIT Hardware x AI Hackathon
Congratulations to Andrea Gómez Jaime on representing McGill at the ingaugural MIT Hardware x AI Hackathon and the associated writeup in the Biomedical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering newsletter.
HAT Box paper accepted at CHI'26
Congratulations to Juliette and Cyan on the acceptance of their paper on “Understanding Haptic Authoring Tools through a Taxonomy and Descriptive Analysis” at CHI 2026. The Haptic Authoring Tool Box is available here.
Visit to Hydro Quebec
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.
Congratulations, Juliette!
Hurrah! Juliette successfully defended her PhD, with many lab members present to cheer her on.
Congratulations, Sabrina!
Our heartfelt congratulations to Sabrina, who recently tied the knot!
Dr. Hélène Unrein joins visit at Airport Innovation Living Lab
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.
Best of Session paper at DASC!
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!
BMO Responsible AI Fellowship
Congratulations to Li Heyang on the recognition of his research by the BMO Responsible AI Fellowship (Senior).
Best Poster at Eurohaptics!
Congratulations to Juliette Regimbal on the Best Poster Award from Eurohaptics 2024 for her work on Investigating Haptic Co-Creation with Reinforcement Learning.
Dr. Bouzekri becomes Prof. Bouzekri!
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!