Management Team

Dr. Claude Frasson
President and Chief Technology Officer

A visionary and opinion leader in both academic and industrial communities.

Founder and President of umind, Dr. Claude Frasson, has earned international recognition as a visionary and opinion leader in the field of and Artificial Intelligence and eLearning. 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.

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, eLearning, 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.