I am full professor and Canada Research Chair (CIHR Tier 1) in Biomedical Citizen Science at the School of Computer Science at McGill University. I conduct research in computational biology, human-computer interaction, and citizen science. My research research activities splits into two areas. I explore the potential of video games to accelerate scientific discovery, with a particular focus on metagenomics applications. I also develop algorithms and machine learning frameworks for predicting RNA structures and small-molecule interactions.

I received a PhD in Computer Science from École Polytechnnique (France) in 2004 under the mentorship of Jean-Marc Steyaert. From 2005 to 2006, I was a post-doctoral researcher in the group of Peter Clote at Boston College, and in 2006 I moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where I was an instructor in applied mathematics under the mentorship of Bonnie Berger. In 2009, I joined the School of Computer Science at McGill University as a faculty member.

My most representative work in citizen science includes Borderlands Science and Project Discovery, which are mini games embedding a scientific data analysis task that were deployed within the AAA video games Borderlands 3 and Eve Online. Together, these projects engaged several millions of online participants in science and the data collected from these mini games enabled us to build a high-resolution microbial phylogeny and develop a machine learning algorithm for flow cytometry data analysis. These initiatives are conducted in close collaboration with Massively Multiplayer Online Science (MMOS).

My contributions on citizen science and video games have been recognized with several awards. In 2025, I received the President’s Prize for Public Engagement Through Media. I was also awarded the Fessenden Professorship in Science and Innovation Award in 2023 and the Tomlinson Science Award in 2021. The same year, I co-received the Webby Award for People's Voice Winner In The Games: Public Service, Activism and Social Impact.