McGill Desautels Faculty of Management - Juan Serpa's Recent Media Coverage

McGill Desautels BCom Wins McCAIS Undergraduate Research Award 2024

�㽶��Ƶ — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 18:51:24 +0000

Bachelor of Commerce student Nikki Tye is the recipient of the McGill Collaborative for AI & Society (McCAIS)’s Undergraduate Research Award (McURA) for Summer 2024. The $8,700 award, aimed at promoting interdisciplinary AI research in society, recognizes Nikki's project on "Protecting the Amazon Forest from Illegal Activity through Image Recognition and Operations Research: A Partnership with JungleKeepers and Peruvian Indigenous Communities."

Desautels-developed AI app is helping monkeys avoid injury in Costa Rica

�㽶��Ƶ — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 16:17:57 +0000

When endangered howler monkey populations cross Costa Rica’s roads, they are vulnerable to injury from electrical wires and passing cars. Associate Professor Juan Camilo Serpa, partnering with Reserva Conchal, is using artificial intelligence to help prevent these injuries from occurring.

Artificial intelligence is helping Costa Rica NGOs preserve biodiversity

�㽶��Ƶ — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 17:53:40 +0000

During a sabbatical year, Prof. Juan Camilo Serpa visited non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Costa Rica, and found that while they were doing a lot of great work to help animals, they had little access to advanced technologies like data analytics and artificial intelligence. This inspired Serpa to re-focus his research toward the country’s NGOs, so he could help them implement new technologies that maximize the impact of their efforts.

McGill Desautels Costa Rica study trip applies data analytics to sustainability projects

�㽶��Ƶ — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 16:32:28 +0000

McGill students are working with Costa Rican non-governmental organizations to safeguard howler monkeys from road hazards. Through their research, they’ve created a "Mono-SOS" website for accident reporting in partnership with a local NGO, SalveMonos.

Celebrating excellence in teaching at Desautels

�㽶��Ƶ — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 18:45:01 +0000

Across programs and subject areas, the Desautels Faculty of Management recognizes the vital role that teaching plays in enriching the student experience and in inspiring the next generation of leaders.

The Distinguished Teaching Award recipients Sujata Madan and Juan Serpa were honoured at McGill’s 2022 Management Convocation ceremony on June 1, for their excellence in teaching.

Delve: Using International Supply Chains For Peace in Times of War with Juan Camilo Serpa

�㽶��Ƶ — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 20:35:00 +0000

Risk is a fact of life in business—it’s also an ever-present reality in times of war. Wars and armed conflicts embroil 60% of the developing world, and now Ukraine and Russia, posing a constant threat to commodity production, the flow of international supply chains, and the economic lifeblood of these nations.

Desautels’ Juan Camilo Serpa earns Principal’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching

�㽶��Ƶ — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 16:54:10 +0000

Juan Camilo Serpa, Associate Professor of Operations Management, was recently recognized with the Principal’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching for an approach that engages students by asking them to use data analytics to see familiar data in novel ways.

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COVID-19 pandemic spurs growth in data analytics and business intelligence

�㽶��Ƶ — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 21:47:28 +0000

As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, companies are relying more heavily than ever on data analytics and business intelligence applications to weather the storm. Led by Professor Juan Serpa, a student-run initiative called COVID-QC is providing approximate real-time information about infection, death, and recovery numbers in Quebec to help leaders make more strategic, data-informed decisions.

McGill team creates COVID-19 dashboard to monitor Montreal and Quebec cases

�㽶��Ƶ — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 17:51:56 +0000

Under the supervision of Professors Juan Serpa and Mehmet Gumus, a team of McGill Desautels students have partnered with students from the Faculty of Engineering to develop a dashboard that tracks COVID-19 cases in Montreal and Quebec.

Queen’s and McGill partner up through the Conflict Analytics Lab

�㽶��Ƶ — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 18:01:19 +0000

Two of Canada’s most storied universities have joined forces to apply cutting-edge technology to the legal profession.

The Queen’s University Faculty of Law and the Desautels Faculty of Management at �㽶��Ƶ have partnered to advance the work of the Conflict Analytics Lab, a research lab that will widen access to justice using technology.

Delve: Optimizing Oversight for Improved Project Delivery

�㽶��Ƶ — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 14:31:01 +0000

Holding someone accountable is no simple undertaking. Oversight is a necessary part of doing business but it’s cumbersome, requires resources, and is riddled with paperwork.

While there may not be a single, all-encompassing technique to make scrutiny less cumbersome, �㽶��Ƶ’s Juan Serpa and co-authors find that companies and government agencies can make simple adjustments to improve the efficiency of their checks and balances. The key is to be flexible and open to innovation.

2019 SSHRC Grants awarded

�㽶��Ƶ — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 16:21:35 +0000

Congratulations to the Desautels professors who received 2019 SSHRC Grants.

SSHRC Insight Development Grants

Celebrating excellence in teaching at Desautels

�㽶��Ƶ — Tue, 21 May 2019 18:57:04 +0000

On May 16, the Desautels community gathered to recognize faculty who have gone above and beyond in their teaching. Congratulations to the following recipients of the 2018-19 teaching awards!

Building a better business through data analytics

�㽶��Ƶ — Tue, 21 May 2019 18:46:07 +0000

Discover how Professor Juan Serpa and a team of Desautels students are using data analytics to streamline operations for Santropol Roulant.

Igniting the power of data analytics

�㽶��Ƶ — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 18:51:48 +0000

Discover how Professor Juan Serpa and the 16 Desautels students comprising a new food analytics club are revolutionizing the operations of beloved NPO Santropol Roulant – and it’s all through the power of data analytics.

McGill Food Analytics Club presents Lecture & Hackathon

�㽶��Ƶ — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 19:27:37 +0000

The McGill Food Analytics Club (McGill FAC) is a student-driven data analytics club that focuses on food. As the world is heading towards a massive food crisis the next decade, there is an urgent need to come up with solutions. Inspired and supported by Desautels Professor Juan Camilo Serpa, the club members want to contribute to solving this food crisis with data analytics. This includes research, coding and outreach.

Desautels’ Juan Serpa included on Poets & Quants’s top 40 Undergrad profs list

�㽶��Ƶ — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 20:18:23 +0000

Poets & Quants has released its inaugural 2017 Top Undergraduate Business Professors list, and on it is Desautels’ own Juan Camilo Serpa, Assistant Professor of Operations Management.

Prof. Serpa’s students hail his enthusiastic approach and his unique teaching methods, which last year included using business statistics to predict a film’s chances at box-office success. He also holds “coffice” hours in cafés on the weekend.

2016-17 Desautels Teaching Awards

�㽶��Ƶ — Wed, 17 May 2017 16:27:51 +0000

Congratulations to Professor Juan Serpa and Professor Sujata Madan who have been selected as the recipients of the 2016-17 Desautels Faculty Teaching Award for Undergraduate and Graduate teaching, respectively.

Desautels students uncover the secret to a successful movie

�㽶��Ƶ — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 15:57:04 +0000

A team of Desautels undergraduate researchers from a business statistics class taught by Assistant Professor Juan Camilo Serpa examined data from online film sites like IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes, plus box-office sales, to come up with a picture of just what it is that makes a movie successful. The team studied elements like star power, ratings and budget to determine the most influential factor.