Insights and dashboard for the World Bank's new Human Capital Index Plus (HCI+) initiative
Hi, and welcome!
My name is Eugene and I am a creator
(here are a few of my projects)
Visualizing upward mobility by location, race, and gender for 20M Americans across 30 years
Collaboration-focused, full-stack app for groups to safely explore, use, and learn about generative AI
Visualizing public engagement on Canada's 6th National Action Plan
Federal government visualizations that are responsive, bilingual, and accessible
Schedule meetings across continents without needing to know anything about time zones
My work has been shared / cited in the media
The American Dream Is Harder To Find In Some Neighborhoods
'That's power for people:' New app aims to help Edmonton's less fortunate
How have students fared in the coronavirus pandemic? New data sheds some light.
Project adds hundreds of kilometres of bike paths to Google Street View
Edmonton data fanatic animates a century of city growth in 6 seconds
Detailed Maps Show How Neighborhoods Shape Children for Life
I love empowering people through fun, visual talks and workshops
A FEW EXAMPLES OF MY TALKS:
- - Hands-on, Half/Full-Day Technical Workshops for Non-Technical Audiences- "Build Your Own Dashboard, App, or Game Using Generative AI", Tech Yukon AI & Data Series, Whitehorse, Yukon- "Build your own Beautiful, Detailed, and Interactive Map in 4 Hours", OpenVisConf, Paris- "Generative AI Learn & Create-a-thon", Canadian Open Data Summit, Edmonton- "Build Your Own Dashboard or App Using Generative AI", Canadian Open Data Summit, Fredericton, New Brunswick
- - "How to Use Visualization to Get Your Work Noticed (and Understood)", Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute Talent Program
- - "Mapping the Crisis in Affordable Housing", Locate (Mapbox conference), San Francisco
- - "AI Goldilocks and the 3 Billion Puzzles", AAAI Conference on AI and Interactive Digital Entertainment, Salt Lake City
- - "(Top) 30 Visualizations that Blew My Mind and Will Inspire You", Canadian Open Data Summit, Virtual
- - "Achieving Sustainable, Transparent, and Efficient Outcomes with AI", OGP Global Summit
- - "AI & the Creative Impulse: An Opportunity & A Dilemma", Capital City Art
- - "Outcomes and Learnings from Five Years of Local Civic Tech Innovation and Engagement", Code For Canada Showcase
- - "The Hidden Ways Open Data Transforms Society through Innovation", Canadian Open Data Summit
How can I help you?
Have a project in mind? Want me to give a talk/workshop, be part of a panel?
You can reach me at [email protected]
You found the treasure! I like surprises and will probably build a little surprise here soon.
Project Highlights
Insights and dashboard for the World Bank's new Human Capital Index Plus (HCI+) initiative
Visualizing upward mobility by location, race, and gender for 20M Americans across 30 years
Collaboration-focused, full-stack app for groups to safely explore, use, and learn about generative AI
Visualizing public engagement on Canada's 6th National Action Plan
Federal government visualizations that are responsive, bilingual, and accessible
Schedule meetings across continents without needing to know anything about time zones
All Public Projects
Visualizing public engagement on Canada's 6th National Action Plan
Federal government visualizations that are responsive, bilingual, and accessible
Schedule meetings across continents without needing to know anything about time zones
BI tool + mobile canvassing app covering ~750K addresses for successful mayoral campaign
This is Edmonton
Interactive 3D map and dashboard visualizing Edmonton demographics using Tableau
500km of Google Streetview
A project to cover bike routes with Google Streetview footage
TrackTheRecovery.org
Track the economic impact of COVID on people, businesses, communities across the US in real time
The MDP Playground
Generating, analyzing, and visualizing Markov Chains for debugging and more robust benchmarking
A Century of Growth in 6 Seconds
A 6 second animated GIF showing a century of city growth, covered by the CBC
Simple k-armed Bandit UCB Visualization
Visualization of UCB algorithm for k-armed bandit problem
Comparing Property Assessments
Storytelling and dynamically visualizing hundreds of thousands of buildings
MapInSeconds.com
Create choropleth maps in seconds by pasting spreadsheet data
A Million Baby Names
A storytelling approach in highlighting patterns of baby names in Alberta
#hackYEG Budget Visualization
A unique visualization showing the net revenue/costs for each department and branch
Insights and dashboard for the World Bank's new Human Capital Index Plus (HCI+) initiative
Visualizing upward mobility by location, race, and gender for 20M Americans across 30 years
Collaboration-focused, full-stack app for groups to safely explore, use, and learn about generative AI
ACADEMICS:
- University of Alberta MSc in Computing Science, 3.9 GPA Nov '23
- - 3 publications on AI in games, Nominated Best Paper (Top 3 of 75+ submissions)
- University of Alberta BSc in Electrical Engineering with the Co-op Option, 3.9 GPA Dec '08
- - Average Graduating GPA of 3.9 (last 2 years), Graduated with Distinction (3.7 overall)
MORE RECENT EXPERIENCE:
- - Darkhorse Analytics (Edmonton), CTO & Director Feb '12 – May '22
- - Created many interactive visualizations for key clients like Procter & Gamble to impress others and make executive decisions
- - Handled backend work on multithreaded, multi-instance server code with load balancing, auto scaling, CDN, etc
- - Created, helped generate and handle viral content (multiple reddit frontpages, millions of impressions)
- - Led technical strategy, hired and managed our development team
- - Organize company hackathons, one won top prizes for Apps for Alberta Competition 2015 ($60K of $70K prize pool)
- - Led our hiring process, was an active mentor and advisor to colleagues
- - Present and help teach data visualizations in the community through workshops and presentations
- - Collaborated as co-owner to help grow Darkhorse Analytics into a multi-million dollar, internationally consulting firm
- - Firenest Innovations Inc (Edmonton), CEO & Co-founder Apr '09 – Oct '10
- - Directed company, business strategy and execution
- - Development of full business plan and delivered company presentations, pitches - VenturePrize runners up ($40k)
- - Responsible for front-end UI, UX design plus initial infrastructure development
- - Led market research, customer feedback and acquisition efforts
- - Microsoft Startup Labs (Cambridge), Intern Program Manager Summer '08
- - Managed three new skunkworks projects for a future product line
- - Fleshed out concept, created deck, and presented proposed product to senior C-Level management
- - Other interns outside of direct team voluntarily followed and helped me on a volunteer project
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES:
- - Technical Consulting, Paid Contract Roles: Multiple projects as contractor, often extended contracts by clients '23 – Ongoing* Contracting by choice, I've turned down permanent role offers- Design+Dev Co-Lead on World Bank Human Capital Index Plus (HCI+) Insights & Dashboard project- Design+Dev Principal of an upcoming Canada-wide funder & charity $ flow project with Imagine Canada- Full Stack Developer (Primarily DB + Backend) on ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) search engine with ACESHub- Senior Solutions Architect assessing and collaborating on critical gov tech projects through Code for Canada- Co-Lead Developer on app that visualizes $B of underclaimed benefit for Child Poverty Action Lab (CPAL)- Lead Developer on fully bilingual, accessible visualization on mineral exploration data with Natural Resources Canada
- - Other Notable, Recent Experiences: Selected recent experiences across investment, civic tech, and community leadership '24 – '25- Created BI tool + mobile canvassing app covering ~750K addresses for successful mayoral campaign- Angel investor performing due diligence for cohort investment round, invested in 3 early-stage startups- Created Collaboration-focused, full-stack app for groups to safely explore, use, and learn about generative AI- Co-chaired the 2024 Canadian Open Data Summit, focusing on attendee outreach and pre-summit programming
- - Full-Time MSc in Computing Science, Completion, and Streetview Project '22 – '23
- - Completed thesis on using AI to determine difficulty in games, published and nominated for Best Paper
- - Graduated with a 3.9 GPA and had 2 additional research publications
- - Contributed to Coursera course on Reinforcement Learning
- - Spent a few months creating 500km of Google Streetview footage for the cycling community
- - Darkhorse Analytics (Edmonton), CTO & Director Feb '12 – May '22
- - Created many interactive visualizations for key clients like Procter & Gamble to impress others and make executive decisions
- - Handled backend work on multithreaded, multi-instance server code with load balancing, auto scaling, CDN, etc
- - Created, helped generate and handle viral content (multiple reddit frontpages, millions of impressions)
- - Led technical strategy, hired and managed our development team
- - Organize company hackathons, one won top prizes for Apps for Alberta Competition 2015 ($60K of $70K prize pool)
- - Led our hiring process, was an active mentor and advisor to colleagues
- - Present and help teach data visualizations in the community through workshops and presentations
- - Collaborated as co-owner to help grow Darkhorse Analytics into a multi-million dollar, internationally consulting firm
- - BoardSuite Corp (Toronto), Director of Technology Development Feb '11 – Jan '12
- - Assembled, trained, and managed development team. Migrated existing tech to open source platforms
- - Took over product management, forecasting and planning responsibilities
- - Implemented Agile processes, generated technology documentation and intellectual property
- - nForm User Experience (Edmonton), Contracted Developer at nForm User Experience Oct '10 – Jan '11
- - Led development and fleshed out features and functionality on new, V1 product
- - Responsible for implementation of critical and sensitive components (such as authentication and admin tools)
- - Delivered fully functional product ahead of timelines
- - Firenest Innovations Inc (Edmonton), CEO & Co-founder Apr '09 – Oct '10
- - Directed company, business strategy and execution
- - Development of full business plan and delivered company presentations, pitches - VenturePrize runners up ($40k)
- - Responsible for front-end UI, UX design plus initial infrastructure development
- - Led market research, customer feedback and acquisition efforts
- - Degree-Required Co-op + Summer 3-4 Month Work Terms, ~2 Years Total Required from 2004: Received highest possible "Excellent" grade on each of my Co-op Work Terms from employers* Received highest possible "Excellent" grade on each of my Co-op Work Terms from employers- Microsoft Startup Labs (Cambridge), Intern Program Manager Summer '08
- - Managed three new skunkworks projects for a future product line
- - Fleshed out concept, created deck, and presented proposed product to senior C-Level management
- - Other interns outside of direct team voluntarily followed and helped me on a volunteer project
- Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (Redmond), Intern Program Manager Summer '07- - Collaborated with various teams for research project on a future product
- - Designed and implemented a unique, trackable online repository for project
- - Produced award-winning project for a Microsoft-wide intern design competition
- Microsoft Windows Live ID (Redmond), Intern Program Manager Fall '06- - Worked on improving partner/Live ID experience, collaborated with MS Research on internal project
- - Delivered on functional specs for CardSpace and rich-client Windows Live ID auth integration
- - Community Committee Member, Microsoft's 1st Asian Pacific Leadership Development Conference
- BlackBerry (Waterloo), 3GPP Compliance Specialist Winter '06- - Created Asset Management System to track compliance for multi-million dollar equipment
- - Produced a 32-page co-op report on the future of the wireless (telecommunications) industry
- - Worked with GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS technologies, wireless industry operations
- Mediashaker Inc (Edmonton), SW Developer Summer '05- - Contributed to Mediashaker's CMS (Content Management System)
- - Liaised and met various clients' software development needs for multiple projects
- Worldwide Link Ltd (Edmonton), Associate Summer '04- - Developed company site, filtering programs, represented Worldwide Link Ltd in Kuala Lumpur
- - Planned, rolled out solutions to Worldwide Link's growing I.T. infrastructural needs
- - Ministry of Defense (Singapore) (Singapore), Training R & Management Centre at Ministry of Defense (Singapore) Oct '00 – Feb '03
- - Developed a multi-user DBMS, presented in conference in India, did project in Australia
- - Won several national (Singapore) awards for safety and efficiency projects
- - DBS Bank (Singapore), Credit Risk Policy & Monitoring at DBS Bank Sep '99 – Aug '00
- - Developed and helped perform training for two separate corporate credit analysis applications
- - Oversaw programs' and project completion, maintenance and enterprise/server deployment
LEADERSHIP/VOLUNTEERING EXPERIENCE:
- - Tech Co-Lead for Andrew Knack's successful mayoral campaign Mar '25 – Oct '25
- - Co-chaired the 2024 Canadian Open Data Summit, focusing on attendee outreach and pre-summit programming '24
- - Canada MSF (Multi-Stakeholder Forum) Civil Society Member on Open Government Mar '23 – Ongoing
- - Chair of the Canadian Open Data Society Nov '22 – May '25
- - President of the Canadian Open Data Society Nov '21 – Oct '22
- - Executive team for Andrew Knack's successful city council re-election Sep '20 – Oct '21
- - Founding board director of the Canadian Open Data Society Nov '19 – Ongoing
- - Co-organizer of BetaCityYEG, Edmonton's civic tech meetup Oct '18 – Ongoing
- - Citizen advisory group member for City of Edmonton's open data initiatives Sep '17 – Sep '20
- - Data Director on cabinet for Don Iveson's successful mayoral re-election Jun '17 – Nov '17
- - Committee member focused on special projects, Edmonton's NextGen Jan '17 – Dec '18
- - Co-founded 'Volunteer with NextGen' events, providing group volunteering opportunities for new volunteers Dec '15
- - Participant and Director at Edmonton's civic tech meetup Oct '15 – Sep '18
- - Co-chair of the Ignite Working Group, Edmonton's NextGen Oct '14 – Dec '16
- - Client/Mentor for University Capstone Design Project on cocktails data visualization Jan '14 – May '14
- - Client/Mentor for University Capstone Design Project on emergency dispatcher game Jan '13 – May '13
- - Client/Mentor for University Capstone Design Projects on video blimp and blind sonar systems Sep '11 – May '12
- - Volunteer making Edmonton an engaging place to live for 18-40 year olds Aug '11 – Oct '14
- - Co-founded Meaet, a microfunding initiative for grassroots projects that has run 10+ times Aug '11
- - VP Awareness for the University of Alberta Golden Key International Honour Society Chapter Sep '08 – Apr '09
- - Representative as student group executive at University of Alberta Student Union Leadership Summit '08
- - Director of Programs for the Canadian Federation of Engineering Students Congress 2008 Oct '07 – Jan '08
- - Board Director for all divisions (~2300 members and staff) Jul '06 – Mar '09
- - Inter-Divisional Council Chair for all divisions (~700 members) at WCRI May '06 – Aug '06
- - Committee Member on RIM Co-op Social Committee at Research In Motion Jan '06 – Apr '06
- - Divisional Chair at Waterloo Cooperative Residence Incorporated Jan '06 – Apr '06
- - President of the University of Alberta SPIE Student Chapter May '05 – Apr '06
- - Cofounder and Vice President of the University of Alberta SPIE Student Chapter Sep '04 – Apr '05
- - Associate Tech Editor for The Bridge publication Sep '04 – Apr '05
- - VP Academics for the First Year Engineering Club at University of Alberta Oct '03 – Apr '04
PUBLICATIONS:
- - "Entropy as a Measure of Puzzle Difficulty", AIIDE '23
- - "Learning Curricula for Humans: An Empirical Study with Puzzles from The Witness", IJCAI '22
- - "Image-to-Level: Generation and Repair", AIIDE '20
MEDIA MENTIONS:
- - Release coverage of OpportunityAtlas.org on NPR Oct '18
- - "Edmontonian creates app to help people in need find Edmonton services", Global News '15
- - "How have students fared in the coronavirus pandemic? New data sheds some light.", ABC News '20
- - "Project adds hundreds of kilometres of bike paths to Google Street View", Taproot Edmonton '22
- - "Edmonton data fanatic animates a century of city growth in 6 seconds", CBC '18
- - Worked as tech architect, lead developer on OpportunityAtlas.org that was released to New York Times Oct '18
TECHNICAL WORK SHARED IN THE MEDIA:
- - This is Edmonton Coverage: 3D Map + Storytelling + Demographics tool covered across multiple outlets- 3D Map + Storytelling + Demographics tool, on Taproot Edmonton '22- 3D Map + Storytelling + Demographics tool, on CBC Edmonton News '22- 3D Map + Storytelling + Demographics tool, on CityNews '22- 3D Map + Storytelling + Demographics tool, on Radio Active '22
- - "Project adds hundreds of kilometres of bike paths to Google Street View", Taproot Edmonton '22
- - TrackTheRecovery.org Coverage: Citations of TrackTheRecovery.org on the U.S. economy from COVID in real time- Citation of TrackTheRecovery.org, by Vox '20- Citation of TrackTheRecovery.org, by NPR '20- Citation of TrackTheRecovery.org, by Bloomberg '20- "How have students fared in the coronavirus pandemic? New data sheds some light.", ABC News '20
- - Opportunity Atlas Media Coverage: Worked as tech architect, lead developer on OpportunityAtlas.org released to major outlets- Worked as tech architect, lead developer on OpportunityAtlas.org that was released to New York Times Oct '18- Release coverage of OpportunityAtlas.org on NPR Oct '18
- - "Edmonton data fanatic animates a century of city growth in 6 seconds", CBC '18
- - "Population growth visualized: Century of sprawl in Edmonton", Global News '18
- - "Mapping expert makes detailed census data available to all Edmonton election candidates", Edmonton Journal '17
- - "Don Iveson using new tool to reach voters", CTV News '17
- - "Hundreds of thousands of polygons rendered on the fly", Mapbox's Blog '17
- - Property Assessments Coverage: Dynamic map of over 300k buildings by property assessment values- Dynamic map of over 300k buildings by property assessment values, Edmonton Journal '17- Dynamic map of over 300k buildings by property assessment values, MetroNews (now The Star) '17
- - LinkYEG Coverage: "Edmontonian creates app to help people in need find Edmonton services"- "Edmontonian creates app to help people in need find Edmonton services", MetroNews (now The Star) '15- "Edmontonian creates app to help people in need find Edmonton services", Global News '15
PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE, ONLINE PROJECTS:
- - Canadian Minerals Exploration & Development Visualizations: Federal government visualizations that are responsive, bilingual, and accessible '24
- - Public Engagement Visualization Prototype: Visualizing public engagement on Canada's 6th National Action Plan '24
- - MSc Thesis Materials: Academic publications, code-driven slides, interactive plots + data '23
- - This is Edmonton: Interactive 3D map and dashboard visualizing Edmonton demographics using Tableau '22
- - 500km of Google Streetview: A project to cover bike routes with Google Streetview footage '22
- - TrackTheRecovery.org: Track the economic impact of COVID on people, businesses, communities across the US in real time '20
- - The Opportunity Atlas: Visualizing upward mobility by location, race, and gender for 20M Americans across 30 years Oct '18
- - The MDP Playground: Generating, analyzing, and visualizing Markov Chains for debugging and more robust benchmarking '18
- - A Century of Growth in 6 Seconds: A 6 second animated GIF showing a century of city growth, covered by the CBC '18
- - AI vs Human Puzzle Choices: Web version of puzzles from The Witness game for comparing human performance with AI-selected puzzles '18
- - Comparing Property Assessments: Storytelling and dynamically visualizing hundreds of thousands of buildings '17
- - MapInSeconds.com: Create choropleth maps in seconds by pasting spreadsheet data '16
- - A Million Baby Names: A storytelling approach in highlighting patterns of baby names in Alberta '15
- - LinkYEG.ca: A fork of Link-SF connecting homeless and low-income residents with critical resources nearby '15
- - World Chat Clock: Schedule meetings across continents without needing to know anything about time zones '14
- - #hackYEG Budget Visualization: A unique visualization showing the net revenue/costs for each department and branch '14
- - Hockey (NHL) Impact: Do metrics like payroll, penalty minutes, save % impact NHL performance? '13
A FEW EXAMPLES OF MY TALKS:
- - Hands-on, Half/Full-Day Technical Workshops for Non-Technical Audiences- "Build Your Own Dashboard, App, or Game Using Generative AI", Tech Yukon AI & Data Series, Whitehorse, Yukon- "Build your own Beautiful, Detailed, and Interactive Map in 4 Hours", OpenVisConf, Paris- "Generative AI Learn & Create-a-thon", Canadian Open Data Summit, Edmonton- "Build Your Own Dashboard or App Using Generative AI", Canadian Open Data Summit, Fredericton, New Brunswick
- - "How to Use Visualization to Get Your Work Noticed (and Understood)", Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute Talent Program
- - "Mapping the Crisis in Affordable Housing", Locate (Mapbox conference), San Francisco
- - "AI Goldilocks and the 3 Billion Puzzles", AAAI Conference on AI and Interactive Digital Entertainment, Salt Lake City
- - "(Top) 30 Visualizations that Blew My Mind and Will Inspire You", Canadian Open Data Summit, Virtual
- - "Achieving Sustainable, Transparent, and Efficient Outcomes with AI", OGP Global Summit
- - "AI & the Creative Impulse: An Opportunity & A Dilemma", Capital City Art
- - "Outcomes and Learnings from Five Years of Local Civic Tech Innovation and Engagement", Code For Canada Showcase
- - "The Hidden Ways Open Data Transforms Society through Innovation", Canadian Open Data Summit
PRESENTATIONS, TALKS, WORKSHOPS:
- - Hands-on, Half/Full-Day Technical Workshops for Non-Technical Audiences: Hands-on Generative AI Workshops- "Build Your Own Dashboard, App, or Game Using Generative AI", Tech Yukon AI & Data Series, Whitehorse, Yukon '25- "Build your own Beautiful, Detailed, and Interactive Map in 4 Hours", OpenVisConf, Paris '18- "Generative AI Learn & Create-a-thon", Canadian Open Data Summit, Edmonton '24- "Build Your Own Dashboard or App Using Generative AI", Canadian Open Data Summit, Fredericton, New Brunswick '25
- - "Generative AI Create-a-thon", AI + Data Learning Series for Tech Yukon, Whitehorse, Yukon '24
- - "Data, AI, and Art: Viral + Impactful Visualizations", AI + Data Learning Series for Tech Yukon, Whitehorse, Yukon '24
- - "AI Goldilocks and the 3 Billion Puzzles", AAAI Conference on AI and Interactive Digital Entertainment, Salt Lake City '23
- - "AI & the Creative Impulse: An Opportunity & A Dilemma", Capital City Art '23
- - "Exploring ChatGPT *Live*, with Useful, Wacky, and Scary Examples", International Open Data Day '23
- - "Impactful Visualizations and How to Create Them", Canadian Open Data Summit, Victoria, BC '23
- - "How to Use Visualization to Get Your Work Noticed (and Understood)", Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute Talent Program '23
- - "What I Wish I Knew as a Grad Student", Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute as Part of the U of A CompSci CMPUT 603 '23
- - "Crowdsourcing Ideas for a National Hackathon + Learn-a-thon", Canadian Open Data Summit, Whitehorse, Yukon '22
- - "From Idea to Perfect Pitching and Feedback", Data-Driven Entrepreneurship & Innovation Program, Whitehorse, Yukon '22
- - "(Top) 30 Visualizations that Blew My Mind and Will Inspire You", Canadian Open Data Summit, Virtual '21
- - "How to Get People Excited (About Your Data)", Canadian Open Data Summit, Virtual '21
- - "Outcomes and Learnings from Five Years of Local Civic Tech Innovation and Engagement", Code For Canada Showcase '19
- - "Achieving Sustainable, Transparent, and Efficient Outcomes with AI", OGP Global Summit '19
- - "Visualizing Python Data using Socket.io", EdmontonPY Meetup '19
- - "Getting Started with Open Data Workshop", International Open Data Day at the Edmonton Public Library '19
- - "Hands-on Workshops on d3 and Tableau", StudentDevCon (Conference for Post-Secondary Students) '18, '19, '20, '21, '22
- - "Mapping the Crisis in Affordable Housing", Locate (Mapbox conference), San Francisco '18
- - "JS to D3", Exchange.js (Edmonton's Javascript Meetup) '18
- - "mdp.ai: Dancing, Colourful MDPs for Research & Fun", Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute Tea Time Talk '18
- - Best Lightning Talk, International Open Data Day at the Edmonton Public Library '18
- - "Visualizations Driving Decisions", Canadian Open Data Summit, Niagara Falls '18
- - "Making Boring Charts Beautiful Workshop", International Open Data Day at the Edmonton Public Library '18
- - "The Hidden Ways Open Data Transforms Society through Innovation", Canadian Open Data Summit '17
- - "A Taste of D3: Why, What's Possible, and... How!", BetaCity YEG, Jobber, Grant MacEwan University '16, '17
- - "Make Your Open Data Dance with D3 Workshop", Alberta Open Data Summit & University of Alberta '16
- - Presenter, Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations Academic Conference, Beijing Aug '07
- - Presenter, International Convention for Quality Control Circles (ICQCC), Lucknow, India '02
AWARDS:
- - Nominated for Best Paper, Top 3 (of 75+ submissions) with Entropy as a Measure of Puzzle Difficulty '23
- - Winner, Unorthodox Prize at Hack-GPT Edmonton '23
- - Winner, Single-Button Category, BCI Game Jam 2022 '22
- - Shortlist, Information is Beautiful Awards '18
- - Best Lightning Talk, International Open Data Day '18
- - Best Overall and Audience Pick, Exchange.js Showcase '17
- - Longlist, Information is Beautiful Awards for MapInSeconds.com '16
- - Winner, Edmonton's Open Data Hackathon '16
- - 3rd Place, Battlehack Singapore Hackathon (of 40+ teams) '15
- - Top Prizes, Apps for Alberta Competition 2015 '15
- - Shortlist, Information is Beautiful Awards for WorldChatClock.com '14
- - Winner, Apps4Edmonton 2010 '10
- - Runners Up, TEC VenturePrize 2010 '10
- - Golden Geer Award '09
- - 2nd Place, Western Engineering Competition '08
- - Microsoft Popfly Prototyping Design Competition Winner '07
- - Shell Top-Valued Engineering Undergraduate Leadership Award '05 – '07
- - National In-Course Millennium Excellence Award '04 – '05
INTERNATIONAL, NATIONAL EXPERIENCE:
- - World Bank, Design+Dev Co-Lead '25 – Ongoing
- - World Bank Human Capital Index Plus: Insights and dashboard for the World Bank's new Human Capital Index Plus (HCI+) initiative '25 – Ongoing
- - Co-chaired the 2024 Canadian Open Data Summit, focusing on attendee outreach and pre-summit programming '24
- - Canada MSF (Multi-Stakeholder Forum) Civil Society Member on Open Government Mar '23 – Ongoing
- - Chair of the Canadian Open Data Society Nov '22 – May '25
- - President of the Canadian Open Data Society Nov '21 – Oct '22
- - Founding board director of the Canadian Open Data Society Nov '19 – Ongoing
- - "Achieving Sustainable, Transparent, and Efficient Outcomes with AI", OGP Global Summit '19
- - 3rd Place, Battlehack Singapore Hackathon '15
- - Student Delegate, 1st Canadian Engineering Summit 2009, Montreal May '09
- - Nationals Competitor, Innovative Design, Canadian Engineering Competition 2009 Oct '08 – Jan '08
- - Presenter, Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations Academic Conference, Beijing Aug '07
- - Selected delegate, Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations Business Conference, Hong Kong Aug '07
- - Delegate, Cyberposium 12, Harvard, Massachusetts Nov '06
- - Selected delegate, Harvard College Asian Business Forum (HCABF), Mumbai, India Aug '06
- - Delegate as chapter executive, Optics & Photonics 2005, Photonics West 2006, San Diego, San Jose '05 – '06
- - Represented Worldwide Link Ltd (Canada), K-Link International Convention, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia '04
- - Presenter, International Convention for Quality Control Circles (ICQCC), Lucknow, India '02
- - Environmental Management Group, Environmental Management Group, Australia '01
- - Represented Canada, Hewlett Packard Global Business Challenge '98 – '99
- - Edmonton-Harbin Sister City Exchange, Edmonton-Harbin Sister City Exchange, Edmonton/Harbin '98 – '99