• Dr. M. Max Evans. Dr. Max Evans joined SIS as an Assistant Professor in September 2013. Dr. Evans holds a MI in Information Systems and a PhD in Information Studies (Knowledge Management) from the University of Toronto and a BSc in International Marketing from Northern Illinois University. His research area is related to the strategic management of information and knowledge, with a specific focus on human and social factors influencing knowledge sharing. Dr. Evans’ academic experience includes designing and teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in strategic management, innovation, business process reengineering, technology management, information system analysis and design, information architecture, and decision-making. His professional experience includes working in investor relations, marketing, project management, operations analysis, system design, and technology deployment.
  
  Dr. Evans is an associated researcher at the Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI), where he is involved in a global research study focusing on human and social factors in knowledge management. He is also presently working with the !dea Gallery at the Ontario Science Centre (along with other researchers, students, artists, and designers) to build a visual display (exhibit) of his doctoral research findings. As part of designing the exhibit, he is exploring how the concept of knowledge is understood and represented through visual and textual abstraction.
  
  

• Dr. Ilja Frissen. Dr. Ilja Frissen joined SIS as an Assistant Professor in August 2013. Dr. Frissen holds a PhD in Experimental Psychology from Tilburg University in the Netherlands, and an MA in Cognitive Psychology from Maastricht University, also in the Netherlands. He has also completed postdoctoral research at Ecole Centrale de Nantes, Institut de Recherche en Communications et Cybernétique de Nantes (IRCCyN) in Nantes (France), McGill University School of Information Studies, and at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Multisensory Perception and Action Group in Tübingen, Germany. Other research activities include “CyberWalk: Enabling Omni-directional Walking in Virtual Worlds”, an international project funded by the European Commission. Dr. Frissen’s research focuses on multisensory perception, multimodal cognition, human-computer interaction, auditory perception and cognition, and spatial information interaction.
  
  

• Dr. Benjamin Fung. Dr. Benjamin Fung joined SIS as an Associate Professor in September 2013. Dr. Fung holds a PhD, an MSc, and a BSc in Computing Science from Simon Fraser University and is a licensed professional engineer in software engineering. As well, Dr. Fung is an Affiliate Associate Professor of Information Systems Engineering (CIISE) at Concordia University, and a Research Scientist of the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance Canada (NCFTA Canada). He is currently leading the Data Mining and Security Lab at the McGill School of Information Studies.
  
  Dr. Fung’s research interests include data mining and databases, information security and privacy, information sharing and integration, and cloud computing. His research has been supported in part by the Discovery Grants and Strategic Project Grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC), and Le Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la nature et les technologies (FQRNT), and National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA)Canada. Dr. Fung’s data mining works in crime data mining and authorship analysis have been reported by media worldwide.

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• Dr. Catherine Guastavino. NSERC Discovery Grant (2013-2018): "Upper Limits of Auditory Motion Perception". PI.
  This research program investigates the relative contribution of different perceptual mechanisms used to localize sounds as they move around the listener. One of the major challenges to the auditory system in everyday listening is to track moving sound sources to predict their future path, e.g. an approaching car or a buzzing mosquito. To date, auditory motion perception has been largely understudied due to the complications of laboratory setups. This research will benefit theory formation in cognitive science by refining auditory models. As well, it will have practical benefits for: spatial sound reproduction: to determine the necessary and sufficient cues to recreate sound movements; multimodal installations: to enhance user immersion and engagement; auditory alarms: using motion to draw attention to specific sounds.

• Dr. Charles-Antoine Julien. FQRSC New Researcher Grant (2013-2016): "A Novel Library Collection Browsing and Information Retrieval Tool". PI.
  This project aims to develop a novel kind of online library catalogue that integrates keyword searching with an interactive visual representation of the topic hierarchy that describes the collection. The resulting tool may help users to explore organized information collections and discover new promising topics.

• Dr. Charles-Antoine Julien. McGill Internal SSHRC Grant (2013-2014): "Social Network Visualization to Facilitate Subject Browsing in Library Collections". PI.
  This short term project aims to explore how users could interact with visual representations showing the true shape of subject structures (i.e., lattices) that provide access to much of the world’s organized information collections. Searchers may eventually be able to see and explore the different ways in which subjects are related to one another to find the topic they are seeking or discover new ones.

• Dr. Elaine Ménard. SSHRC Grant (2011-2014): "Modeling of an Interface Dedicated to Digital Image Retrieval in a Bilingual Context". PI.
  The research program will develop an interface model for image retrieval in a bilingual (French and English) context, that is, when the query language differs from the indexing language. The overarching goal is to investigate the characteristics and functionalities necessary to support image retrieval in a bilingual context, and to integrate these characteristics and functionalities into a comprehensive yet flexible interface model. By taking into account the needs and expectations of real users, the main outcome of this research will be the establishment of a framework that will contribute to design efforts and help many groups of image searchers to browse and search for images, since an appropriately designed interface could be crucial to their success in finding the needed images.

• Dr. Karyn Moffatt. NSERC Discovery Grant (2012-2017): "Socially-Informed Accessible Technology: Improving Access to Technology, Information, and People". PI.
  This project researches accessible technology for users with physical, cognitive and sensory disabilities, with a goal to develop new generation assistive devices and accessible technologies that are sensitive to the social environments within which they will be used, and that seek to leverage those relationships to improve assistance and support.

• Dr. Karyn Moffatt. FQRNT New Researchers Start Up Program grant (2012-2014): "Advancing Accessible Computing by Considering Real World Use". PI.
  This project aims to advance accessible computing for older adults through the study of real world computer use.