Student Collaborators

Simon Altmejd

Email: simon.altmejd@mail.mcgill.ca 

Simon on LinkedIn | University profile

Simon is a PhD student at the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University in the field of Strategy and Organization. He is interested in the role of emerging technologies in organizational knowledge, knowing, and power relations. He holds a BEng from McGill University and an MBA from HEC Montréal. Prior to joining the program, Simon was a biomedical engineer, designing technologies for respiratory research and collaborating with scientists around the world to advance projects. Simon also worked as a consultant in innovation for a global management consulting firm.


Anand Bhardwaj

Email: anand.bhardwaj@mail.mcgill.ca

Anand on Google Scholar | LinkedIn | Website | University profile 

Anand is a PhD student at the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University in the field of Strategy and Organization. He's interested in qualitative research on the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in organizational knowledge and knowing. He holds a prior PhD in Computational Systems Biology from Emory University in Atlanta, GA. Prior to joining McGill, he was an AI Strategist and Data Scientist with Accenture, where he designed and executed both AI algorithms and organizational digital transformations at multiple North American Fortune 500 companies.


Gina Page

Email: gina.page@mail.mcgill.ca

Gina on LinkedIn | University profile

Gina is a PhD student at the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University in the field of Strategy and Organization. She holds a specialized Bachelor of Health Science in Addiction and Mental Health, from the University of Lethbridge, and she spent her first career in frontline community clinical practice. Based on her interest in healing and physical space, she completed a Masters of Architecture from the University of Toronto. Before pursing her PhD, Gina worked within a Toronto hospital leading complex and high stakes design projects with divergent stakeholder groups. Her current doctoral research focuses on professions under threat, and how they respond. 


Wadih Renno

Email: wadih.renno@mail.mcgill.ca  

Wadih on Google Scholar | LinkedIn | University profile

Wadih is a PhD student at the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University in the field of Strategy and Organization. He holds a BE in Computer and Communications Engineering, and an MBA from the American University of Beirut. Prior to joining the program, Wadih worked for ten years in research, project management, sales, non-profit management and fundraising. Interested in understanding how people collaborate in different situations and what role technology plays in that process, Wadih has presented his work at the Academy of Management (AOM).


Xian Zhu

Email: xian.zhu2@mail.mcgill.ca

Xian on Research Gate | University profile

Xian is a PhD student at the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University in the field of Strategy and Organization. He holds a Master's degree in Public Administration (research oriented) at the Tsinghua University. He is interested in cross-disciplinary collaboration in complex settings that include technological transformation, emergency and crises, and temporary organizations. Under this topic, he explores empirical phenomena as diverse as the organizing dynamics of temporary shelter hospitals at the Wuhan City immediately after Covid-19 outbreak; the scaling up of the Chinese medical mask industry; and the interaction between emergency call takers, callers, and frontline police officers. 


Zhuoyue Pang

Email: zhuoyue.pang@mail.mcgill.ca

Zhuoyue on LinkedIn| University Profile

Zhuoyue is a PhD student at the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University in the field of Strategy and Organization. She holds a Master of Philosophy in Management (thesis-oriented) from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and a Master of Applied Psychology (thesis-oriented) from Peking University. She is interested in qualitative and quantitive research on the role of open innovation in healthcare practices. She has presented her work at leading conferences such as the Academy of Management (AOM) and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention (SPSP). She has received several awards, including a postgraduate studentship award in Hong Kong (total funding of approximately HK$432,720), a full-tuition summer visiting scholarship in Japan, and a National Scholarship in China. 

Before joining McGill, she was the President of the Graduate Students & Alumni Association (GSAA) at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and a director of the National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program for University Students in Shanghai.


Nasrin Sultana

Email: nasrin.sultana@hec.ca

Nasrin on LinkedIn| Google Scholar

Nasrin will be completing her PhD in administration from the Department of International Business at HEC Montreal in Summer 2024. She has been investigating the artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem and the Life Science and Health Technology (LSHT) ecosystem in Quebec to understand the context of innovation in healthcare using AI. Part of her doctoral research, titled "Open Innovation for Sustainability in Healthcare" is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship. In her postdoctoral research, she plans to expand her research and delve deeper into the context, and therefore, will be investigating the context of "Implementation of artificial intelligence for achieving sustainability in healthcare" under the supervision of Dr. Samer Faraj. This research is also funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship.