Funded research

More than $6.5M as principal or co-investigator.

Anchored by a $5.2M digital twin of the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence trade corridor, with substantially more again as a researcher and collaborator on national programs such as OBVIA and 4POINT0 — funded research spanning two decades, plus international field missions.

$6.5M+
as PI & co-PI
$5.2M
Great Lakes–St. Lawrence corridor
$17.5M+
partner programs (collaborator)
23
funded projects
As Principal Investigator & co-PI
~$6.5M · 15 projects
2024–Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Corridor — data-science & digital-twin hub for intermodal trade and transportation (Transport Canada, National Trade Corridors Fund) — Lead applicant / PI$5,200,000
2024–2027FRQ — Action concertée — economic impacts of hydrological change on maritime traffic and trade in the St. Lawrence basin: a digital-twin approach (MELCCFP & Ouranos) — Principal Investigator$317,246
2026–2029SSHRC — Partnership Development Grant — Principal Investigator$199,600
2021–2022MEI — Data Science and AI for the analysis of treatment efficacy and non-adherence in rheumatology — Principal Investigator$167,000
2013–2015BDC-MAECI-MRI-EDC-DEC-QG100 — Quebec's Economy: international opportunities and challenges — Principal Investigator$125,000
2014–2015MFQ-MEI-CIRANO — International Data Platform Project — Principal Investigator$94,600
2010–2012MEI-MRI-MFQ — The Canada–EU trade agreement: an industrial-sector analysis — Principal Investigator$91,800
2019–2021Knowledge Transfer Grant — Mondo — Principal Investigator$75,000
2021–FORUM IA-PIA — Comparative analysis of AI ecosystems for training and knowledge transfer — co-PI$70,000
2012–2014SSHRC — Globalization and Management of Technology — Principal Investigator$70,000
2021–2022MAPAQ — Artificial Intelligence in the Bio-food Industry: challenges and opportunities — Principal Investigator$65,400
2019–2021MFQ-CIRANO — Unstructured data to understand perceptions: the immigration discourse — co-PI$51,312
2021–2022AMF — Adoption of cryptoassets in Quebec — Principal Investigator$31,100
2010–2012SSHRC — ASEAN free-trade area & technology diffusion (aid to small universities) — Principal Investigator$15,000
2010–2011SSHRC — Creation of the ASEAN free-trade area and trade distortion — Principal Investigator$7,000
As researcher & collaborator
national research programs

Amounts marked (program) are the total value of the funded program; the role indicates the nature of the contribution.

2023–2028OBVIA — International Observatory on the Societal Impacts of AI and Digital Technology (FRQ) — Collaborator$15,000,000 (program)
2018–20234POINT0 — SSHRC Partnership Grant (PI C. Beaudry, Polytechnique) — Collaborator$2,500,000 (program)
2018–2021Canadian Northern Corridor Research Program — SSHRC (PI J. Winter, U. Calgary) — Co-applicant$200,000
2012–2016CIRANO — Strategy and International Economy Group — Director$300,000
2018–2020MAPAQ — Les enjeux du numérique dans le secteur agricole (PI A. Royer, Laval) — Co-applicant$57,960
2008–2010Health Canada — Economic analysis of industrial sectors using hazardous materials — Co-applicant$65,000
2009–2011IRSST — International risk management of hazardous material transportation — Co-applicant$45,000
2010–2011Health Canada — SME networks that best relay public policies — Co-applicant$10,000
Field research & missions
2018

Banque de la République d’Haïti

Presenting on the data revolution and the new geopolitical balance to foresee.

2010

Inter-American Development Bank — Port-au-Prince

Macroeconomic scenarios for Haiti, tied to a universal education system. The mission that led to founding edhaiti.

2009

World Bank — Skopje

Capacity building for public-finances assessment in the FYR of Macedonia.

2005

European Commission, ECFIN DG — Brussels

Invited fellow in the Visiting Fellows Programme; options for a new Stability and Growth Pact.

2001–2010

Mellon Foundation — Middlebury College

Summer research in Lugano and Brussels.

International missions across the UK, Japan, China, France, Switzerland, Israel, South Africa, the USA, Germany, Spain, Russia and Austria — industrial missions through clusters and ecosystems, studying their homeostasis, the impact of the data revolution, and the role of the triple helix.