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Welcome to From Data to Decision (FD2D)


We are an international group of researchers and innovators at 22 leading academic institutions and technology companies in North America, Europe and Asia, that develop and study digital transformation and artificial intelligence applications across various academic disciplines and industrial sectors as well as their impact on society.

We built and launched an international Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) program that supports the training and mentoring of multidisciplinary teams of highly qualified graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in digital transformation and artificial intelligence from Canada and abroad.

Yes, our acronym FD2D is inspired by the fictional robot character R2-D2.

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Principles for Fostering Health Data Integrity

Funding

Our CREATE program has been endowed with 3.9 million dollars so far.

We acknowledge the support of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

Nous remercions le Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada (CRSNG) de son soutien.

We acknowledge the support of Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (Mitacs).

Nous remercions le Mathématiques des technologies de l’information et des systèmes complexes (Mitacs) de son soutien.

We acknowledge the support of the Office of the Vice President of Research and Innovation and the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry of the University of Alberta.

Nous remercions le soutien du Bureau du vice-président à la recherche et à l’innovation et de la Faculté de médecine et de médecine dentaire de l’Université de l’Alberta.

Investigators & Collaborators

Investigators

Daniel C. Baumgart, MD PhD MBA
Principal Investigator and Program Director
Professor of Medicine
Adjunct Professor of Computing Science
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada

Maria Cutumisu, PhD
Co-Investigator
Associate Professor of Educational Psychology
Adjunct Professor of Computing Science
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada

Randolph Goebel, PhD
Co-Investigator
Professor of Computing Science
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada

Mi-Young Kim, PhD
Co-Investigator
Assistant Professor of Computing Science
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada

Petr Musilek, PhD Ing
Co-Investigator
Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada

Nidhi Hegde, PhD
Co-Investigator
Associate Professor of Computing Science
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada

Jennifer Raso, SJD, LLB
Co-Investigator
Assistant Professor of Law
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada

Geoffrey Rockwell, PhD
Co-Investigator
Professor of Phiosophy
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada

Michael Serpe, PhD
Co-Investigator
Professor of Chemistry
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada

Martha White, PhD
Co-Investigator
Associate Professor of Computing Science
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada

Osmar Zaïane, PhD
Co-Investigator
Professor of Computing Science
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada

Collaborators

Michael M. Bowling, PhD
Collaborator
Google Deepmind Technologies
London
United Kingdom

Rich Caruana, PhD
Collaborator
Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Research Lab
Redmond, Washington
USA

Greg Estes
Collaborator
nVidia Corporation
Developer Programs
Santa Clara, California
USA

Russel Greiner, PhD
Collaborator
Professor of Computing Science
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada

Antonio Krüger, PhD
Collaborator
Professor of Computing Science
Director, German Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
Saarland University
Kaiserslautern
Germany

Firas Lethaus, PhD
Collaborator
Volkswagen Group
Data: Lab
Munich
Germany

Christoph Meinel, PhD
Collaborator
Professor of Digital Engineering
Director, Hasso Plattner Institute
University of Potsdam
Potsdam
Germany

Martyn Jackson
Collaborator
HP Enterprise Corporation
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada

Cory Janssen, PhD
Collaborator
CEO, Alta ML Corporation
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada

Cam Linke, MS
Collaborator
CEO, Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada

Mark Musen, MD PhD
Collaborator
Professor of Medicine
Professor of Biomedical Data Science
Director, Stanford University Center for Biomedical Informatics Research
Stanford, California
USA

Martin Peuker
Collaborator
CIO, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Berlin
Germany

Ken Satoh, PhD
Collaborator
Professor of Computing Science
National Institute of Informatics Japan
Foundations of Information Research Division
Tokyo
Japan

Eirene Seiradaki, PhD
Collaborator
Borealis AI
RBC Royal Bank of Canada Research Institute
Toronto, Ontario
Canada

Joe Sehl
Collaborator
IBM Canada Ltd.
Innovation
Markham, Ontario
Canada

Verna Yiu, MD
Collaborator
CEO, Alberta Health Services
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada

Dornoosh C Zonoobi, PhD
Collaborator
CEO, MEDO.AI Corporation
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada

Contact

From Data to Decision (FD2D) Transdisciplinary Research Group
University of Alberta
130 University Campus NW
Edmonton, AB, T6G 2X8
Canada

baumgart@ualberta.ca