About the IAPP

Dr. Chiu is a Data Scientist with a wide domain of expertise in wireless networks, ecommerce and Artificial Intelligence. She has a B.A.Sc. in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from the Department of Engineering Science, and a M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. from the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, all from the University of Toronto. She held an NSERC Canada Graduate Fellowship during her Ph.D. studies and an NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Ryerson University.   Her graduate and post-doctoral work focused on understanding and modeling creativity and designer behaviour in engineering design using cognitive psychology and natural language processing.  Her research resulted in over 20 AI-related conference and journal papers.

Currently, she is a Senior Data Scientist at TELUS where she works on internal and external data and AI projects with partners such as the Vector Institute, the Alan Turing Institute in the UK, the GSMA and various start-ups.