Sylvie Ratté is a Professor in the Department of Software and IT Engineering at École de technologie supérieure in Montreal, QC, Canada and serves as Research Director of the LiNCS (Semantics and Cognitive Engineering Laboratory). Previously, she has been postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. Her current research interests include natural language processing, data mining, and machine learning, with applications in health (detecting and monitoring aging patients and Alzheimer’s disease patients), and education (tracking and monitoring students’ use of specialized concepts and learning disorders). Her research collaborators include Potsdam university (Germany), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (Mexico), Medical University of South Carolina (USA), and Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (Ecuador).
