Le Carrefour des SHN / DH-Hub

Constance Crompton is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Ottawa. She serves as an associate director of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute and as vice-president (English) of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / Société canadienne des humanités numériques. Course taught at DHSITE2018: Introduction to Text Encoding

Chris Tanasescu is Coordinator of Digital Humanities Resources with University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Arts and an Adjunct Professor in the University of Ottawa’s Department of Computer Science. He specializes in digital literary studies and computational literary analysis and was principal investigator on a SSHRC-funded project on Poetry Computational Graphs. He has expertise in machine learning, data science, corpora development,

André Vellino is an associate professor in Information Studies at the University of Ottawa and an adjunct research professor at the Institute of Cognitive Science at Carleton University. His research interests include recommender systems for digital libraries, the automatic inference of metadata schemas for scientific research datasets and the cognitive science aspects of automated reasoning systems. Course taught at DHSITE2018:

Justine completed her mechanical engineering degree at uOttawa and is now working on an Electronic Business Technologies Masters. During the last three years she has spent her time playing with new tech and diversifying her knowledge. She spent almost 2 years working with the Maker Mobile delivering workshops and integrating new curriculum for robotics and women in science and engineering.

Jay is an Assistant Professor at OCAD University in Advertising, Environment Design, and Graphic Design. His design practice explores the unboundaries of digital/physical space through research and education. Formal training in painting, photographic arts, and interior design informs a multidisciplinary approach to interior, exhibit, industrial, and graphic design media. As an award-winning Group Creative Director in advertising, event, product, and experiential communications, Jay has spear-headed

David McDougall graduated from Queen’s University with a BFA and received his Masters from York University.  He began his artistic career as a figurative sculptor, focusing on the intersection between traditional bronze sculpture and snapshot photography. His practice transformed through several formative collaborations, which now includes creating kinetic and electronic art and incorporating techniques of mesh molding and 3D printing.