Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research (DIRO) at the Université de Montréal. Founding member of Mila and a fellow of the CIFAR program on Learning in Machines and Brains. CIFAR Canadian AI chair.

Montreal, Quebec

co-investigator

Performance artist, new media artist, filmmaker, writer, curator and educator. Particular interest in the intersection of Plains Cree culture and digital technology, merging "traditional" objects such as hand drums with digital video and audio sampling.

York University

Toronto, Ontario

co-investigator

Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies, University of Oregon

Indigenous digital media, alternative currency (e.g., cryptocurrency, beads), Coquille community projects.

Eugene, OR, USA

Coquille (Kō-Kwel) Nation

co-investigator

Assistant Professor in Montreal Neurological Institute (Neuro) and School of Computer Science at McGill

Core Faculty at Mila

Fellow of the CIFAR Learning in Machines and Brains Program

Lab Scientist with the Creative Destruction Lab

Member of Learning in Neural Circuits Lab

Montreal, QC, Canada

co-investigator

Assistant Professor, Kamakakūokalani

Honolulu, Hawaii

co-investigator

Assistant Professor, Université de Montréal

Canada CIFAR AI Chair

Montreal, Quebec

neuroscientist and artificial intelligence researcher employing computational and mathematical approaches to study the biological and algorithmic mechanisms of learning in the mammalian neocortex.

co-investigator

Executive Director, Sustainability in the Digital Age and Director of Future Earth Canada Hub; Research Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment, Concordia University.

Montreal, Quebec

Inclusive innovation, digitalisation and environmental governance,  gender, sustainable development for prosperity creation, and teaching leadership development for the 21st century.

co-investigator

Associate Professor, Information and Technology Policy, Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University.

Co-director, Applied AI Institute.

Director, Machine Agencies, Milieux Institute.

Montreal, Quebec

co-investigator

Professor of Digital Media & AI in the Comparative Media Studies Program and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT.   New forms of computational narrative, gaming, social media, and related digital media based in computer science, cognitive science, and digital media arts.

MIT

MA, USA

co-investigator

IVADO Associate Professor in Computational Psychiatry at CHU Sainte-Justine research center, University of Montreal, and Associate Academic Member of Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute

IVADO

Montreal, QC, Canada

co-investigator

Inuk scholar, independent curator and art historian from Nunatsiavut. Associate Professor of Indigenous art history at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec; University Research Chair in Indigenous Circumpolar Arts.

Concordia University

Montreal, Quebec

co-investigator

Professor in Te Pūtahi a Toi in the School of Māori Knowledge, Massey University, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa, New Zealand

Linguistics (discourse analysis, te reo Māori, applied linguistics, language curriculum), and Mātauranga Māori (including traditional knowledge, traditional ecological knowledge, Indigenous ethics, digitisation of Indigenous knowledge, Indigenous taxonomy, naming and Māori astronomy.

co-Director

Machine Learning Engineer and Artist, Sustia LLC.

Diné (Navajo Nation)

natural language processing of Indigenous languages, integrating machine learning techniques with creative practices, supporting Indigenous data sovereignty through decentralized data storage and data co-ops

Santa Fe, NM

collaborator

Associate Professor at McGill School of Computer Science; Canada CIFAR AI Chair Mila; Co-Director, Reasoning and Learning Lab; Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music; Centre for Intelligent Machines

Montreal, QC, Canada

co-investigator

Professor at Mathematics and Computer Science Department, University of Lethbridge

Alberta, Canada

co-investigator

Professor of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. 

Hawai’i 

co-investigator

Professor of Design and Computation Arts, Concordia University.  

Computational media; Indigenous digital practices; critical approaches to computation; cultural computing.

Concordia University

Montreal, Quebec.

Project Director

Dr. Jackson Leween, Two Bears ,
Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts Research & Technology  Associate Professor, Art Studio, University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Fine Arts  

Art; Digital Media; Indigenous Creative Practice; Film & Video; Sound Art; Technology Research 

Alberta, Canada

co-investigator

Dr. Johnson Witehira, Director Indigenous Design and Innovation Aotearoa.

Co-founder Āpōpō Indigenous Co-working Space. 

Wellington, New Zealand

collaborator

Professor, Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Hawai'i.

Hawai'i

co-investigator

Assoc. Professor, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts, Collaboration and Digital Media, Director of Aabijijiwan New Media Lab.

The University of Winnipeg

Manitoba, Canada 

co-investigator

Lecturer at UH Manoa’s Dept. of Urban and Regional Planning; Director of Social Enterprise MA`O Organic Farms

Hawai'i

co-investigator

Professor of Psychology at the University of Montreal.

 Montreal, Quebec. 

co-investigator

Co-founder and director at Purple Maiʻa Foundation, a technology education nonprofit based in Hawaiʻi that teaches kids how to code.

Purple Mai'a
Hawai’i 

collaborator

Professor of Political Studies at University of Manitoba;  Indigenous Politics; Canadian Politics; Canada, Australia & Aotearoa/New Zealand Constitutional Law and Politics Treaties; Aboriginal Governance; Gender; Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women; Indigenous Sovereignty & Political Movements (Hawaii, Australia, Aotearoa and Canada); Digital Archives ; Federalism; Intergovernmental Relations; Institutions 

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

co-investigator

Assistant Professor, University of California: San Diego. 

California, USA

multi-disciplinary research interests include genome sequencing, genome engineering, computational biology, evolutionary genetics, paleogenetics, and Indigenizing biomedical research

co-investigator

Incoming Assistant Professor (Spring 2023), School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University

Tempe, AZ, USA

Diné (Navajo Nation)

Human genetics, bioethics, precision health, computational approaches, Indigenous genomic data sovereignty.

co-investigator

Special Advisor to the President, University of Lethbrdige

Distinguished Niitsitapi Scholar, Indigenous Studies

Alberta, Canada

co-investigator

Of Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Porou, and Tūhourangi, Distinguished Professor at Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi;  Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (CNZM)

Decolonizing Methodologies

Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi

Whakatāne, Aotearoa

co-investigator

Associate specialist of student affairs at the University of Hawai'i, West O'ahu. Indigenous epistemology and its role in world-wide awakening.

University of Hawai'i

co-investigator

Ngāti Rangitihi neuroscientist with expertise in neuroplasticity-based therapeutics, primary human cell cultures, neurodegenerative diseases and decolonising methodologies for biomedical science.

Aotearoa

co-investigator

Assistant  Professor of Indigenous Knowledge, Data Sovereignty and Decolonization

Washington State University

Digital Technology and culture program

co-investigator

Completed research in Oxford on NLP (Natural Language Processing) by focusing on the application of machine learning to endangered languages and recently made a move into robotics, with the aim of creating working neural prosthetics.

United Kingdom

co-investigator

Professor of Te Reo, Tikanga and Philosophy (language and practices) at Waikato University; member of the Tūhoe Waikaremoana Māori Trust Board; chair of Te Hui Ahurei a Tūhoe. 

Aotearoa

co-investigator

President Emerita of OCAD University; appointed to the Order of Canada; appointee of the Order of Ontario and the Royal Canadian Society of Artists. Data visualization, wearable technology and mobile media researcher, artist and designer.

OCAD
Toronto , ON, Canada

co-investigator

Anishinaabe, a member of Obishkkokaang/Lac Seul First Nations. Intermedia artist; experimental image making; sonc materials; AI and Anishinaabemowin

Winnipeg,  Manitoba, Canada

co-investigator

Associate Professor of Soil Ecology and Biogeochemistry in the Natural Resources and Environmental Management Department within the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources; affilate of Water Resources Research Center at the University of Hawai'i Manoa.

Hawai'i 

co-investigator

World leading expert in artificial intelligence, pioneered work in deep learning. Full Professor at Université de Montréal, and the Founder and Scientific Director of Mila – Quebec AI Institute; co-director at CIFAR Learning in Machines & Brains program as Senior Fellow; Scientific Director of IVADO.

MILA

Montreal, QC, Canada

co-investigator

Assistant Professor, New Media, University of Lethbridge

design and science collaboration, science communication, public communication, arts and science collaboration, media and society

collaborator

Managing Director, Startup Capital vEntures x SBI

Hawaii, USA

collaborator

Chief Executive Officer/Vice-Chancellor, Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi

Member of Te Awe o ngā Toroa, Ministry of Education, NZD

Whakatāne, NZ

collaborator

Director / Curator, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery

Professor, Department of Art

University Scholar, Faculty of Fine Arts

Alberta, Canada

collaborator

Chief Technology Officer, Te Hiku Media

te reo Māori speech recognition and speech synthesis; open source systems and data; data sovereignty; Indigenous data sovereignty

collaborator

Creative Director, SZKaiao

Hawai'i, USA

collaborator

General Manager, Te Hiku Media

of Te Aupouri, Ngai Takoto, Te Rarawa, and Ngāti Kahu 

NZ

collaborator

Professor of Mātauranga Māori, Te Pūtahi-a-Toi School of Māori Knowledge, Massey University.

Fellow, Royal Society Te Apārangi

Chief Advisor, NZ Government on Matariki.

NZ

collaborator

Māori data scientist from the Hokianga region whose interests are machine learning, language and automation. Positioned at Dragonfly Data Science, and working with Te Hiku Media.

Auckland, NZ

collaborator

A multilingual Cultural Acclimation Artist dedicated to supporting Indigenous language and culture vitality. Together with her husband, Michael Running Wolf, they create virtual and augmented reality experiences to advocate for Native American voices, languages and cultures. 

Vancouver, BC, Canada

collaborator

Attorney, SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School, Berkman Klein Center Affiliate, Centre for International Governance Innovation Senior Fellow.

Cambridge, USA

AI Governance, equality and non-discrimination, critical approaches to political economy and society, computation and legal theory.

collaborator

MSc Computer Science, PhD student at McGill. Pursues endangered indigenous language revitalization using Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) technology.

Montreal, QC, Canada

collaborator

Interdisciplinary artist, writer

PhD student in Cultural, Social, and Political Thought, University of Lethbridge

Alberta, Canada

collaborator

An Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist, visual artist, and composer who highlights contemporary Lakota epistemologies through research-creation, computational media, and performance. 

Montreal, QC, Canada

collaborator