Diane is the Vice-President of Analytics, AI and Machine Learning for CGI in Canada and leads a team of data scientists and data architects in supporting organizations implementing big data solutions. She holds a PhD in Medical Information Technology Management where she conducted doctoral research on medical AI/expert system solution modeling and adoption. Most recently, Diane is being engaged by organizations to assist in better understanding their data through data science, AI and machine learning to expand the scope of evidence-based decision-making.

Diane has been engaged on COVID pandemic modeling as well as the vaccine roll out analytics and reporting for the Province of British Columbia, and continues to lead collaborative health research engagements across Canada. Diane has also led collaborative strategy design and implementation planning for advanced analytics and AI for large organizations in energy and utilities, railway, and government / healthcare sectors. Most recently, Diane has been engaged by utilities clients in Western Canada for analytics strategies and implementation engagements.