JOEL MARTIN

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA

JOEL MARTIN

2021

NRC Chief Digital Research Officer (CDRO), NRC Canada

 

Dr. Joel Martin is the Chief Digital Research Officer of the National Research Council of Canada’s (NRC) Digital Technologies Research Centre. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, from the Georgia Institute of Technology and completed post-doctoral studies at the University of Pittsburgh.

Since joining the NRC in 1994, he has been a researcher and served in multiple leadership roles in the Digital Technologies Research Centre, including Senior Director, Director of Research and Development, Program Lead of the Multimedia Analytic Tools for Security program, Team Leader, and project lead.

His strategic leadership has resulted in an increase in the impact of digital technology research at the NRC and beyond, including advances and applications in data science and analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, machine translation, computer vision and graphics, cybersecurity, human-computer interfaces, natural language processing, medical and bioinformatics, and the Internet of Things (IoT). In addition, Dr. Martin has established research and development programs drawing interest and collaboration from universities and other government departments.

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