2025

2025 Exploratory IRD Awards

City-scale Urban Sound Synthesis Using Multimodal Generative AI

PI: Benjamin Fung (Professor, School of Information Studies)

 

Engaging Girls and Women with Artificial Intelligence: Building Capacity for Women in Data Science

PI: Allison Gonsalves (Associate Professor, Department of Integrated Studies in Education)

2025 Proof-of-Concept IRD Awards

Advancing scalable AI-readiness of real and synthetic patient data to power practice and system transformation: FAIRifying MD-Clone Adams and clinical data at MUHC

PI: Laurette Dubé (Professor Emerita, Marketing, Desautels Faculty of Management)

 

Indigenous knowledge organisation of digital archives in te reo Māori

PI: Jackie CK Cheung (Associate Professor, School of Computer Science)

 

Integrating Nutrition Awareness into Budget-Aware AI-Driven Grocery Recommendations: Supporting Consumer Vulnerability for Affordable and Healthy Food Choices

PI: Yu Ma (Professor, Marketing, Desautels Faculty of Management)

 

Multiscale Computational Framework for Community and Supply Chain Sustainability and Resilience: The Case of Food Convergence Innovation

PI: Raja Sengupta (Associate Professor, Department of Geography & McGill School of Environment)

2024

2024 Exploratory IRD Awards

ED PreVisit: A Multilingual AI Solution for Pre-ED Visit Consultation, Enhanced Demand Forecasting, and Improved Patient Experience in Emergency Departments

PI: Yichuan Ding (Associate Professor of Healthcare Analytics, Desautels Faculty of Management)

 

How can generative AI be used to optimize content creation for secondary math use?

PI: Nikki Lobczowski (Assistant Professor, Educational and Counselling Psychology)

 

AI-Powered Aerial-Ground Collaborative Mobile System for Precision Spraying to Enhance Sustainable Agriculture

PI: Shangpeng Sun (Assistant Professor, Bioresource Engineering)

2024 Proof-of-Concept IRD Awards

Inclusive co-design of AI systems

PI: Jin Guo (Associate Professor, School of Computer Science)

 

Using AI to support Culturally Grounded Indigenous Education

PI: Joseph Levitan (Associate Professor, Integrated Studies in Education)