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 the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and a Master of Applied Psychology (thesis-oriented) from Peking University. She is interested in qualitative and quantitative research on the role of AI, open innovation, lower-status groups, and coordination 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.

Qi Liu

Email: qi.liu4@mail.mcgill.ca

Qi on LinkedIn| University Profile

Qi is a PhD student at the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University in the field of Strategy and Organization.  She’s interested in qualitative research on emerging technologies and their organizing issues for societal change, especially in healthcare.  Her current work explores future making for the cross-sectoral “ecosystem of ecosystems” of connected digital twins, in use to build up infrastructure resilience.  She holds a Mphil (Master of Philosophy) degree in Innovation, Strategy and Organization from Cambridge Judge Business School, and a double Master in Management degree (with two graduate dissertations) from both Tsinghua University (Master of Science track), China, and HEC Paris (Grande École track), France. 

Göktuğ Bender

Email: Goktug.Bender@mail.mcgill.ca 

Göktuğ on LinkedIn

Göktuğ Bender is currently pursuing a Bachelor's in Psychology with minors in Behavioral Science and Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University. He has been honored as a recipient of the James McGill Scholarship and as a Global Health Scholar. His work as a recipient of the McGill Journal of Human Behavior Fellowship involved crafting a paper on the future directions of AI in healthcare. Currently, as a recipient of the McCAIS Undergraduate Research Award (McURA), he is working on a project to evaluate and enhance precision medicine in Quebec, crafting a capacity building roadmap through AI. With a profound interest in the transformative potential of AI in healthcare, Göktuğ is particularly focused on exploring the implementation of various AI models in precision medicine and relevant research infrastructures while assessing socio-technical feasibility and ethical considerations inherent in this domain.

Aurore Fierobe

Email: aurore.fierobe@polytechnique.edu

Aurore on LinkedIn | Google Scholar | University Profile

Aurore is a PhD student at Ecole Polytechnique de Paris (France), in the field of Organization Studies. Prior to her PhD, she graduated from HEC Paris and Université Paris IV-La Sorbonne (Philosophy). She was one of the 12 French students selected for the PhD excellence program CEFAG in 2023. In her research, Aurore focuses on practice change in healthcare organizations in the context of introducing new technologies. She is interested in hospital-led as well as company-led initiatives.

Edie Pearman

Email: edie.pearman@mail.mcgill.ca

Edie on LinkedIn

Edie is in her final year at McGill University, pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a minor in Management. Within the Complex Collaboration team, she has focused on analyzing data to improve our understanding of surgery wait times and operating room throughput in Quebec. Her other interests include data governance and how AI intersects with the cultural connotations of objectivity, materiality, and automation.