Student Collaborators

Graduate Students

Simon Altmejd

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.

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.

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.

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.

Undergraduate Students

Ahreum Lee

Email: ahreum.lee@mail.mcgill.ca

Ahreum on LinkedIn

Ahreum is a Desautels Integrated Management Student Fellow (IMSF 2025-2026 cohort) in the Complex Collaboration Lab, working under Professor Samer Faraj, with the help and guidance of Dr. Nasrin Sultana and Anand Bhardwaj. Her research leverages data acquisition and topic modeling to analyze the vast landscape of Canadian healthcare reform.

Samantha Laskaris

Email: samantha.laskaris@mail.mcgill.ca

Samantha on LinkedIn

Samantha is an undergraduate student in Desautels Faculty of Management pursuing a concentration in Managing for Sustainability. As an Integrated Management Student Fellow (IMSF) in the Complex Collaboration Lab, she is investigating the variables influencing patient wait times for family physicians and retention rates of family doctors within Quebec.

Yutong Kang

Email: yutong.kang@mail.mcgill.ca

Yutong on LinkedIn

Yutong is an undergraduate student in the Desautels Faculty of Management and an Integrated Management Student Fellow (IMSF 2025–2026 cohort), working under the supervision of Professor Samer Faraj, Dr. Nasrin Sultana and Anand Bhardwaj. Her research focuses on emergency department performance in Quebec, with particular attention to understanding the factors that contribute to variations in wait times across hospitals.

Rongrong Luo

Email: rongrong.luo@mail.mcgill.ca

Alumni

2024-2025

Göktuğ Bender

Email: Goktug.Bender@mail.mcgill.ca

Göktuğ on LinkedIn

Göktuğ Bender graduated in December 2024 with a Bachelor's in Psychology and minors in Behavioral Science and Social Studies of Medicine from 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. Additionally, he was the recipient of the BMO Responsible AI Research Award, he worked 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 currently works at the Institute for Transforming Healthcare as a research assistant.

Amanda Leloup

Heloise Colas

Isabel Ines

Rongrong Luo

2023-2024

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.

Hana Samad

2022-2023

Lauren Harrison

2021-2022

Maelys Boudier

Page updated

Google Sites

Report abuse