Team

Samuel Dahan

Director, Conflict Analytics Lab

Samuel Dahan is the Founder and Director of Conflict Analytics Lab and a law professor at Queen’s University and Cornell University. He is the chief of Policy at Deel Inc and Chair of the Deel Lab. He is a former cabinet member at the Court of Justice of the European Union and a legal counsel at the French Conseil d’Etat.
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Maxime Cohen

 Associate Director for Strategy and Partnership

Maxime Cohen is a Professor of Retail Management and Operations Management and a Bensadoun Faculty Scholar at McGill University. Before joining McGill, Maxime was an Assistant Professor at NYU Stern and a Research Scientist at Google AI. Maxime's core expertise lies at the intersection of data science and operations management
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Jonathan Touboul

Associate Director, Research

Jonathan Touboul is Associate Professor of Mathematics in the Mathematics Department and in the Volen National Center for Complex Systems at Brandeis University.
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Daniel McBride

Associate Director, Administration

Daniel assists the Director, CAL and the Executive Director, Analytics & AI Ecosystem at Smith, in the development of community engagement, strategy, policy and research project management. Prior to joining the Analytics & AI Ecosystem at Smith and the CAL, Dan worked in program development and delivery experience with Smith’s MBA and professional graduate programs. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Smith.

Yuri Levin

Dean of the Skolkovo Business School in Moscow, Founding Member

Yuri Levin is the Stephen J.R. Smith Chair of Analytics at the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University. He is also the inaugural Director of Queen’s Master of Management Analytics program, and of the Scotiabank Centre for Customer Analytics at Smith School of Business.
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Stephen W. Thomas

Analytics and AI

Stephen Thomas is an adjunct faculty member at the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University in Kingston, ON, Canada. He is also the Director of Queen’s Master of Management Analytics program, and the inaugural Director of the Queen’s Master of Management in Artificial Intelligence program.
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Xiaodan Zhu

NLP and sentiment analysis

Xiaodan Zhu is the Assistant Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests include Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Artificial Intelligence. Before joining Queen’s in 2017, Zhu was a Research Officer of National Research Council Canada from 2010 to 2017.
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Mikhail Nediak

Analytics and AI

Mikhail Nediak is Associate Professor and Distinguished Professor of Operations Management at the Smith School of Business in Queen’s University. He is interested in Management Analytics, Operations Management and Technology.
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Daniel Guetta

Contract Analytics

Daniel Guetta is the Director of the Business Analytics Initiative jointly led by the Columbia Business School and Columbia Engineering, and on the faculty of the Decisions, Risk, and Operations Division at the Columbia Business School.
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Farhana Zulkernine

NLP

Farhana Zulkernine is an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Big Data Analytics and Management (BAM) laboratory at the School of Computing, Queen's University. She is also the Coordinator of the Cognitive Science Program.

Colin Rule

Conflict resolution

Colin Rule is Vice President of Online Dispute Resolution for Tyler Technologies. He serves on the boards of the Consensus Building Institute and the PeaceTech Lab at the United States Institute of Peace. He is currently Co-Chair of the Advisory Board of the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution at UMass-Amherst and a Fellow at the Gould Center for Conflict Resolution at Stanford Law School.
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Amy J. Schmitz

Consumer ODR

Professor Amy J. Schmitz joined the University of Missouri School of Law as the Elwood L. Thomas Missouri Endowed Professor of Law in 2016. Previously she was a Professor at the University of Colorado School of Law for 16 years. Prior to teaching, Professor Schmitz practiced law with large law firms in Seattle and Minneapolis, and served as a law clerk for the U. S. Court of Appeals.
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Jacob Turner

Ethics and Legal Regulation of AI

Jacob Turner, Barrister at Fountain Court Chambers, is an international disputes lawyer and the author of Robot Rules: Regulating Artificial Intelligence.
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David Restrepo-Amariles

Legal Analytics

David Restrepo-Amariles is an Assistant Professor of Law at HEC Paris. He is director of research on SMART Law (Scientific Mathematical, Algorithmic, Risk and Technology-driven law).
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Joshua Karton

International dispute resolution

Joshua Karton is an associate professor and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies & Research at Queen’s Law.
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Tamara Ćapeta

European Law

Tamara Ćapeta is an Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union, a professor of European public law at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law, Zagreb, and holder of Jean Monnet Chair. Former Head of Unit of the Court of Justice of the European Union.
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Jonathan Benchimol

Law and Economics

Jonthan Benchimol is a visiting scholar at Harvard University (Department of Economics), a research economist at the Bank of Israel (Research department), and a research associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
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Aymeric de Moncuit

Intellectual Property and Competition Law

Aymeric de Moncuit is a référendaire (legal secretary) at the Court of Justice of the European Union (General Court) in Luxembourg since 2014. Aymeric  has worked as a competition lawyer in international law firms in Paris. In addition to lecturing French and EU Competition Law in Panthéon-Assas, Aymeric regularly writes and speaks on EU litigation. Aymeric graduated in law both in France (Panthéon-Sorbonne/Paris) and the UK (King’s College/London) and is a non-practicing member of the Paris bar.

Pr. Duncan Fairgrieve

Professor Duncan Fairgrieve is an academic & lawyer practising as a French avocat and English barrister. He holds contemporaneously academic positions at the Université de Paris Dauphine PSL, where he is Professor of Comparative Law, and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London, where he is Senior Research Fellow in Comparative Law and Director of the Product Liability Forum at the Institute.

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Boshko Stankovski

Boshko Stankovski is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, working on a thesis in international law as a member of Trinity College.
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Eduard Beltran

Commercial Negotiation

Eduard Beltran is a Professor of International Negotiation at the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona. He is a trained expert negotiator (Program Negotiation of Harvard University) and the founding director of the Center for Studies and Training in Business Negotiation (CEFNE).
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Martin Schweinsberg

Organisational Psychology

Martin Schweinsberg is an assistant professor of organisational behaviour at ESMT Berlin.
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Arvid Bell

International Negotiation

Arvid Bell is Lecturer on Government and the Director of the Negotiation Task Force (NTF) at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University.
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