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Emmanuel Blanchard (PhD)

Academic title(s): 

Adjunct professor 

Emmanuel Blanchard (PhD)
Contact Information
Email address: 
emmanuel.blanchard [at] mcgill.ca
Department: 
Surgery
Division: 
Surgical and Interventional Sciences
Degree(s): 

PhD

Graduate supervision: 

Currently supervising students

Group: 
Currently Recruiting
M.Sc. Students
M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects
Ph.D. Students
Areas of interest: 

Human factors (cognition, motivation, affect, culture) and technology, expert-centered design, data engineering, formal ontology engineering, virtual simulations for training and education, and human-computer interaction at large 

Biography: 

Emmanuel G. Blanchard is a Associate Professor at the University of Le Mans, France, and a member of the IEIAH team of LIUM (Laboratoire d’Informatique de l’Université du Mans). He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Surgery at 51Թ, Canada. He holds a PhD in computer science from the Université de Montréal (2007) and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology at 51Թ (2008-2010). In the past, he has been a visiting researcher at Osaka University, where he focused on formal ontology engineering, a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Software Engineering at Polytechnic of Namibia, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture, Design, and Medialogy at Aalborg University, Denmark. From 2014 to 2023, he worked in the startup ecosystem of Montreal, Canada. 

His research interests include, but are not limited to, human factors (cognition, motivation, affect, culture) and technology, expert-centered design, data engineering, formal ontology engineering, virtual simulations for training and education, and human-computer interaction at large. He has co-created the international workshop series on CATS (Culturally-Aware Tutoring Systems, 6 editions so far), was an invited participant in the Dagstuhl seminar entitled “Computational Models of Culture for Human-Agent Interaction”, and was the principal editor of the “Handbook of Research on Culturally-Aware Information Technologies”, one of the first publications exploring the links between culture and technology. Emmanuel is a frequent (senior) reviewer for numerous conferences in computer science in education, such as Artificial Intelligence in Education, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Int. Conf. on Advanced Learning Technologies. He is also frequently involved in program committees for journals and conferences from disciplines of the Humanities, notably those supported by the American Psychology Association. 

Selected publications: 

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