Bio

Ali Shiri is a Professor in the Faculty of Education and is currently the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies. He received his PhD in Information Science from the University of Strathclyde Department of Computer and Information Sciences in Glasgow, Scotland. Ali has been teaching, researching, and writing about digital repositories, digital information interaction, data and learning analytics, and more recently on the generative AI implications and ethics in higher education and research. In his current research, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), he is developing mobile applications for cultural heritage digital libraries and digital storytelling systems for the Inuvialuit communities in the Northwest Territories in Canada’s Western Arctic.