Jennifer Burns
Associate Vice-President, Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, University of British Columbia
Jennifer Burns serves as the Associate Vice President Information Technology & Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the University of British Columbia (UBC). With a background in business and IT leadership, Jennifer has been spearheading modernization efforts for UBC's technology landscape. Currently, Jennifer is co-chairing the Generative AI Steering Committee aimed at understanding and providing recommendations on the impacts and use of generative AI among other AI tools within higher education and UBC.
During Jennifer’s tenure as CIO, her focus has been on orchestrating the transformation of UBC's technology infrastructure, protecting UBC’s data and information systems, and supporting IT teams in their efforts to embrace a progressive technological outlook through the adoption of cloud solutions and automation. Jennifer remains focused on delivering programs, products and services that enhance teaching, learning, research and student experiences, while building a strong, robust and collaborative culture of continuous improvement and inclusion.
Dr. Christina Hendricks
Academic Director of the Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology, University of British Columbia
Dr. Bhushan Gopaluni
Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President, Faculty Planning, University of British Columbia
Bhushan is a professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and a Vice-Provost & Associate Vice-President at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He was previously an Associate Dean in the Faculty of Applied Science and an Associate Head in the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering. He is also an associate faculty in the Institute of Applied Mathematics, the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems, Pulp and Paper Center and the Clean Energy Research Center. Bhushan was the Elizabeth and Leslie Gould Teaching Professor from 2014 to 2017; and is currently an associate editor for the Journal of Process Control and was previously an associate editor for The Journal of Franklin Institute and Results in Control and Optimization. He has held visiting positions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Uppsala University.
Bhushan received a Ph.D. from the University of Alberta in 2003 and a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, in 1997, both in the field of chemical engineering. From 2003 to 2005, he worked as an engineering consultant at Matrikon Inc. (now Honeywell Process Solutions), during which he designed and commissioned multivariable controllers in British Columbia’s forest bio-products industry and implemented numerous controller performance monitoring projects in the Oil & Gas and other chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Bhushan is a recipient of the Killam Teaching Prize and the Dean’s Service Medal from UBC, the D. G. Fisher Award in Process Control from the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineers, and the Drishti Award for Science and Technology from the Drishti Media Group.