The Gillis Lab

I am an Associate Professor and Statistician in the School of Computer Science at the University of Guelph. I am the co-founder of Farm To Fork, GuelphHacks, and the Improve Life Challenge, and I am the co-creator of the ICON Classroom, and the Gryphons Care Initiative.

Awards & Honours

The research team has been nominated and awarded numerous awards over the years. The following is a list of awards and honours that we have received for our research, teaching, and service. Continue reading “Awards & Honours”Continue reading “Awards & Honours”

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Research

Research conducted in our lab is inherently interdisciplinary, involving the combined expertise of academics, as well as industrial, government, and…

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The Farm To Fork team at the Guelph Farmers' Market

Service

The Farm To Fork team at the Guelph Farmers’ Market. Left to right: Dr. Daniel Gillis, Corey Alexander, Danny Williamson,…

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Teaching

Over the years I have had the opportunity to teach courses in the School of Computer Science, the Department of…

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ICON 2020: #RecoverTogether

The ICON Classroom

In A World Of Plenty

Power Of One

Digital Inclusion

Community Engaged Scholarship…

COVID-19 & Co-op: Work Integrated Learning Through ICTC – Part III

The last few weeks have been packed! One reason for this has been the addition of several new members to our research team. In particular, we've been onboarding 10 new…

Community Engaged Scholarship…

#RecoverTogether

Dr. Shoshanah Jacobs and I are incredibly excited to announce the name of our community partner for the fall 2020 Ideas Congress (ICON) classroom. This year, students from across campus…

Community Engaged Scholarship…

COVID-19 & Co-op: Work Integrated Learning Through ICTC – Part II

Just last week I welcomed four new students to our lab, thanks in part to subsidies provided through the Work Integrated Learning Digital Subsidy offered through the Internet Communications and Technology…

Computer Science…

COVID-19 Waffle Plots

Last week I introduced the Exploring COVID-19 Around The World Dashboard that I built using the Shiny Platform. Today I've updated the dashboard to include a waffle plot that allows…

Community Engaged Scholarship…

COVID-19 & Co-op: Work Integrated Learning Through ICTC

Over the last few months, the Government of Canada has announced new programs and policies to deal with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. One of those announcements included changes to the…

Community Engaged Scholarship…

An Open Letter To The Students Of Fall 2020

Dear Students of Fall 2020, The last few months have been a challenge. You have had your regular winter semester interrupted and upended as we made the switch to emergency…

Some of the research and work presented here takes place in the ancestral and continued homelands of the original peoples of Labrador: the Inuit of Nunatsiavut, the Inuit of NunatuKavut, the Innu of Nitassinan, and their ancestors. Some of our work also takes place on the ancestral lands of the Katzie, and Lummi people. Finally, we acknowledge that the University of Guelph resides in the ancestral and treaty lands of the Attawandaron people and the Mississaugas of the Credit, and we recognize and honour our Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Métis neighbours.

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