Founder and CTO of uMind, Dr. Claude Frasson, has earned international recognition as a visionary and opinion leader in the field of Artificial Intelligence and e-Learning. He is connected with both academic and industrial communities and is the founder of the Intelligent Tutoring System Conference (ITS), a forum for the interchange of ideas in all areas of Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Learning. Since 1988, ITS attracts over 500 researchers worldwide on a bi-annual basis.

Dr. Frasson is at the head of the Heron Laboratory and the GRITI, a group of 75 multidisciplinary researchers across 7 North American universities whose main focus resides in Intelligent Tutoring Systems, a domain which regroups Artificial Intelligence, Education, Pedagogy, Learning techniques, Knowledge Engineering, e-Learning, and Neural Techniques. GRITI’s ultimate goal is to understand how the brain produces, stores and retrieves knowledge while recent research focuses on Emotional Intelligence.

Some of Dr. Frasson’s accomplishments figure below:

	Over 300 publications and 4 books
	Founder of the Intelligent Tutoring System Conference
	International expert for the World Bank
	International expert for United Nations
	Scientific Adviser for Revenue Canada
	Scientific Adviser for the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology Canada
	Member of the Scientific Board Committee of Bell Canada, Northern Telecom, Bell Northern Research
	Mission leader for the Government of Guinea and Sierra Leone
	Adviser to the Government of Senegal