I grew up in the US. I was born in Pittsburgh and then I lived in Illinois for very long time and then I decided to go to warmer weather. So, for college and my PhD actually I moved back and forth a but, but I lived in Southern California and then after my PhD I moved here to Montreal. So, a lot of different places within the US of course and now in Canada and it’s been really fun to experience kind of even the different cultures within North America. Things I like to do, so I’ll say like in any ideal world where I have as much time as possible, I like to make sure I work out. I used to before, I have a kid now but before for that I used to go for music shows a lot more, I like to read. What I like to do now is go and kind of discover different coffee shops to work in when I don’t come in to the office, that’s kind of something I can do within the working day and still be productive. And then of course at weekends, when the weather is good we like to go hiking or just take a walk in the city. We talked briefly about skiing before, my husband is really into skiing, so we also get to do that around here in Montreal and then when we visit his family in Europe as well so. Yeah so, those things are all my interests, I don’t get to do them all the time, but I try to make time for fresh and fun stuff as well.

Yeah sure, so to be completely honest I don’t actually teach undergrad that much, so I’m less in touch with kind of what they do and what their life goals are, but I can talk briefly about those who I do interact with. From what I know we have two different programs for undergraduate students in terms of actually, well students can either do a concentration or a major in IS. And now they can also do one in analytics that sure was operation. So, a lot of students who we see come back and kind of give talks. For younger students they generally go into consulting progression, but I think that’s a lot of us with major in IS kind of did right after undergraduate as well. And then in a few years I see a lot of them kind of wanting to go back to grad school in some way or another so that’s kind of really fun to see, write recommendation for those guys, so that’s great, but mostly consulting kind of analyst positions to start out in. We also have some students who with more the analytics classes that were doing, who actually are doing analytics related job, as soon as they get out of undergrad which is very cool as well because then you know we can access them as well for to come back and talk about their jobs and give us insight in the industry. In our graduate programs, so we have a masters, standard MBA program. Most of the students in that program major in finance. We have some who do a concentration in IS as well or what we called you know wide technology information management to change the analytics. So, they really try to find their place in that program but one thing that we were heavily involved in is the development of their Master of Management analytics program which in Montreal and Quebec, had to go through a lot of approval. So, finally got their approval of the Quebec government and so is being launched in the fall. So the goal of that program is really to kind of make sure that people have a mix of the managerial and kind of hard-core analytics skills so that they can understand how the system can best be made with analytics. And then of course we have our doctoral program so which we will talk I think extensively about as we go forward but all of us, we're kind of a lab-based program here where we had met students to individual professors when we admit them to the program as well.

So, I think my research interests are I think I know but it sometimes hard to kind of get the big picture but they're really around how digital platforms can motivate interaction. And then something I'm really interested in recently is actual motivating payments for digital goods on a digital platform. So, my original research interests and I think we'll talk about that later, but it was really about music and how social technology, social media impacted how people consume music. And now when I think about this it doesn't seem like such a crazy, interesting, you know, novel thing to look at but at the time you know social media, blogs for music were a big thing and it was really uncertain how do we set type of social technologies are people individual be able to communicate with one another, really change the shape of the consumption for music, so that was kind of my initial work. More recently but I've looked at how individual features under old platforms are features of technology including features on platforms are mobile application adoption etc. impact interaction on these types of platforms or outcomes on this platform and a lot of this research has been done in the online dating context which have been really, really fun especially to present that but also just to kind of learn about this new context kind of what social norms have changed online versus offline which unfortunately isn't very much. And then more recently as I said before one of my biggest things that I'm looking at is trying to look at now or something I really care about is in digital technology can motivate people to pay. In a world where people can get music, movies, books for free. There are people who suffer right when we get them for free so how can we use technology to motivate people to pay for these goods. So those are kind of broadly my stream for what I've been focused on.