Committees

Program co-chairs

Cyril Goutte, National Research Council Canada
Xiaodan Zhu, Queen’s University

Best paper award selection committee

• Yuhong Guo, Carleton University
• Frank Rudzicz, Toronto University
• Stan Matwin, Dalhousie University
• Ebrahim Bagheri, Ryerson University
• Yifeng Li, Brock University
• Yuri Grinberg, NRC
• Harry Guo, NRC

Program committee

• Esma Aimeur, Université de Montréal
• Xiangdong An, York University
• Ebrahim Bagheri, Ryerson University
• Caroline Barrière, University of Ottawa
• Nabil Belacel, NRC Canada
• Colin Bellinger, NRC Canada
• Sabine Bergler, Concordia University
• Gabriel Bernier-Colborne, NRC Canada
• Virendra Bhavsar, University of New Brunswick
• Nizar Bouguila, Concordia University
• Scott Buffett, NRC Canada
• Cory Butz, University of Regina
• Laurence Capus, Laval University
• Eric Charton, National Bank of Canada
• Colin Cherry, Google
• Paul Cook, University of New Brunswick
• Elnaz Davoodi, Thomson Reuters
• Berry De Bruijn, NRC Canada
• Ali Akber Dewan, Athabasca University
• Chris Drummond, NRC Canada
• Audrey Durand, McGill
• Ashkan Ebadi, NRC Canada
• Ahmed Ali Abdala Esmin, Federal University of Lavras
• Ali Etemad, Queen's University in Kingston
• Reza Faieghi, University of Toronto
• Atefeh Farzindar, USC
• George Foster, Google
• Michel Gagnon, Polytechnique Montréal
• Sebastien Gambs, UQAM
• Alice Gao, University of Waterloo
• Yong Gao, UBC Okanagan
• Moojan Ghafurian, University of Waterloo
• Yuri Grinberg, NRC Canada
• Michael Guerzhoy, Saint Michael's Hospital
• Jimmy Huang, York University
• Diana Inkpen, University of Ottawa
• Ilya Ioshikhes, University of Ottawa
• Aminul Islam, Dalhousie University
• Nathalie Japkowicz, American University
• Dhanya Jothimani, Ryerson University
• Fazel Keshtkar, Southeast Missouri State University
• Shehroz Khan, University of Toronto
• Kamyar Khodamoradi, University of Alberta
• Richard Khoury, Université Laval
• Svetlana Kiritchenko, NRC Canada
• Grzegorz Kondrak, University of Alberta
• Leila Kosseim, Concordia University
• Adam Krzyzak, Concordia University

• Guillaume Lajoie, Université de Montréal – MILA
• Luc Lamontagne, Laval University
• Jackie Lo, National Research Council Canada
• Yifeng Li, NRC Canada
• Fuhua Oscar Lin, Athabasca University
• Andrea Lodi, École Polytechnique – MILA
• Rongxing Lu, University of New Brunswick
• Simone Ludwig, North Dakota State University
• Ali Mahdavi-Amiri, University of Calgary
• Rupam Mahmood, University of Alberta
• Brad Malin, Vanderbilt University
• Gordon McCalla, University of Saskatchewan
• Robert Mercer, The University of Western Ontario
• Marie-Jean Meurs, UQAM
• Malek Mouhoub, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Regina
• Isar Nejadgholi, NRC Canada
• Jian-Yun Nie, Université de Montréal
• Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University
• Fred Popowich, Simon Fraser University
• Sheela Ramanna, University of Winnipeg
• Robert Reynolds, Wayne State University
• Mehdi Rezagholizadeh, Huawei
• Samira Sadaoui, University of Regina
• Fatiha Sadat, UQAM
• Ehsan Sherkat, Dalhousie
• Daniel Silver, Acadia University
• Michel Simard, NRC Canada
• Marina Sokolova, University of Ottawa
• Bruce Spencer, NRC Canada
• Sun Sun, NRC Canada
• Stan Szpakowicz, University of Ottawa
• Graham Taylor, Guelph
• Alain Tchagang, NRC Ottawa
• Thomas Tran, University of Ottawa
• Chun Wang, Concordia University
• Xin Wang, University of Calgary
• Yunli Wang, NRC Canada
• René Witte, Concordia University
• Dan Wu, University of Windsor
• Yang Xiang, University of Guelph
• Jingtao Yao, University of Regina
• Pooya Zadeh, University of Windsor
• Harry Zhang, University of New Brunswick
• Nur Zincir-Heywood, Dalhousie University
• Farhana Zulkernine, Queen’s University