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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.

Jean-François Lozier est professeur remplaçant au Département d’histoire de l’Université d’Ottawa, détaché du Musée canadien de l’histoire où il est conservateur responsable de l’histoire de l’Amérique française depuis 2011. Détenteur d’un doctorat en histoire de l’Université de Toronto (2012), ses recherches portent principalement sur les relations franco-amérindiennes aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, ainsi que la culture matérielle, la commémoration, l’histoire

Sarah Simpkin is currently serving as Interim Digital Scholarship Librarian and part-time Digital Humanities instructor at the University of Ottawa, where she is working on advancing DH initiatives across campus. In her previous role as GIS and Geography Librarian, Sarah managed the library’s geospatial data and map collections, coordinated map digitization projects and taught mapping workshops. She holds an Hon.

Joël Rivard is the replacement GIS and Geography Librarian at the University of Ottawa. Before taking this position in the summer of 2017, Joël spent over 15 years working as the Cartographic Specialist and the GIS Technician at the Carleton University Library. He has a Master of Information Studies as well as an honours degree in Geomatics with a minor

Qianjia (Shy) Huang is pursuing his PhD degree in Computer Science at University of Ottawa. He is working on cyberbullying detection by means of natural language processing at the NLP lab. He has been researching cyber-harassment for more than five years and gained extensive experience in social media text analysis. Course taught at DHSITE 2018: Social Media Analysis  

Prasadith received his Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems (with Honours) from University College Dublin (Ireland). He has a Master of Science degree from University of Keele (United Kingdom) and started his second Master of Science degree in Electronic Business Technologies at the University of Ottawa. He is currently pursuing his Doctoral degree in Electronic Business at the University

Ehsan Amjadian is PhD candidate in Cognitive Science at Carleton University. He also works as a Machine Learning Scientist in the industry. His areas of expertise are Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning. He has applied machine learning methods to various tasks and has developed new methods improving on the available systems including automatic terminology extraction, speech recognition,