Roger Nkambou

Roger Nkambou

Role: DH 2016 & WWW 2016 Liaison Chair
Affiliation: Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

Roger Nkambou has a PhD in Computer Science (1996) from the University of Montreal. He was an assistant professor at the University of Sherbrooke and left in 2000 to join the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM) where he is now a full Professor. He is director of the Cognitive Computing doctoral program and was the director of the GDAC (Management, Dissemination and Knowledge Acquisition) laboratory until 2010. For over fifteen years, Roger has actively contributed to the development of research and new technological solutions in the following areas: knowledge engineering, intelligent systems engineering, cognitive architectures agents, agents of emotional models and collaborative learning systems. He has contributed to the development of authoring tools for building intelligent tutoring systems and collaborative environments dedicated to training. In this context he participated (as a project co-director) in the development and implementation of the SCORE project funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) for the acquisition, installation and exploitation of advanced technology dedicated to collaboration (telepresence wall, high speed network equipment for sharing real-time multimedia resources, application servers, acquisition interaction data equipment, etc. ).

In the field of cognitive and affective agent design, a collaboration with the University of Memphis has allowed him to develop a major project to develop agents with an artificial consciousness and emotional intelligence thanks to support from the Financial Fond du Quebec Research Natural Sciences and Technologies (FQRNT). In 2008, he chaired the international conference ITS’2008. In 2012, he co-chaired the 20th edition of the UMAP (User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization) international conference, held in Montreal from 16 to 20 July 2012. He was also the president of the Scientific Committee of the TICE’2012 International Conference held in Lyon, France. Furthermore, Roger has been Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the University of Montreal since 1998. He is member of the ‘steering committee’ of the ITS (Intelligent Tutoring Systems) international conference which has been organized for over 20 years. Furthermore he is a member of the program committee of several major conferences and has authored several important publications in the field of AIDC (Artificial Intelligence in Education). He has led fifty Masters and Doctoral students who actively participate in the activities of the Quebec and Canadian industry information technology. He has worked with several companies and industries and participated as an expert in numerous projects.