Who am I?
I am an Associate Professor of Educational Technology at Université Laval. From 2019 to 2025, I held the National Bank Chair in Educational Leadership on Innovative Pedagogical Practices in Digital Contexts, and from 2021 to 2025, I co-led the Education and Empowerment axis at OBVIA, the International Observatory on the Societal Impacts of AI and Digital Technology.
My work follows a clear compass: placing humans at the center of digital and AI transformation. My research focuses on two main areas:
- Designing critical, responsible, and equitable ways to integrate digital and AI technologies into lifelong learning, particularly in rapidly transforming workplaces;
- Empowering citizens to strengthen their digital agency and cyber-resilience against hyperrealistic manipulations, deepfakes, and AI-driven disinformation.
Convinced that education must evolve faster than the technologies disrupting our lives, I founded and now lead the Digital & AI Bootcamp, an immersive initiative launched in February 2025. This space brings together leaders from education, institutions, communities, health, and the workplace to collectively reimagine creative, critical, and responsible uses of AI in pedagogy and workforce development.
As a committed leader in educational transformation, I chaired the first Institutional Committee on Pedagogical Innovation at Université Laval, contributed to the development of institutional guidelines on the use of generative AI, and currently serve on the Permanent Advisory Council on AI in Teaching and Learning. I also take part in several working groups on digital ethics and responsible AI.
My background combines academic rigor with creative practice. I hold a PhD and a Master’s degree in Educational Technology from Concordia University, as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Interior Design from the Lebanese American University, which has shaped an approach that blends creativity, innovation, and pedagogical rigor. I spent fourteen years teaching visual arts and art history at Collège Protestant Français in Lebanon, guiding final-year students in preparing and defending their art portfolios for the French Baccalaureate. I also worked for a decade as a lead graphic designer with clients in Lebanon and the UK.
In higher education, I taught at Concordia University and Ontario Tech University, both online and in person, as a lecturer and then as an adjunct professor. I delivered courses in digital technologies in education, human performance technology (HPT), instructional design, online teaching and learning, communication technologies, and media production.
My leadership has been recognized with several awards: the Governor General’s Gold Medal of Canada – Humanities and Social Sciences (2018) for the excellence of my doctoral thesis, the SALTISE Award for Pedagogical Innovation (2019), and Concordia University’s John F. Lemieux Young Alumni Medal (2022), which celebrates innovation and a forward-looking vision that pushes boundaries.
How I mobilize my expertise
Mobilized Expertise
Deepfakes and AI-Augmented Disinformation | Human Agency and Cyber-Resilience | Lifelong Learning for the Future of Work