Alexandre Bilodeau-Bouchard

- Researched and analyzed emerging regulations in artificial intelligence (AI) to support the design of research and project proposals. - Reviewed and copyedited technical documentation, including program literature, project reports, research articles, and newsletters. - Kept up to date on international policy in AI, including the EU AI Act and Canada’s AI and Data Act, and evolving laws in the UK, the US, China, and across the globe.

- Gathered feedback from small-scale macroalgae farming stakeholders across Canada to draft “Integrating Seaweed Aquaculture into Canada’s Blue Economy Strategy: A Call to Action,” a public response to the federal government’s Blue Economy Strategy consultation. - Synthesized datasets collected from rural and coastal communities to draft an internal report Cascadia Seaweed will use to build on future projects to expand seaweed farming in the Pacific Northwest.

- Operated the advisory hub of grant writing for the entire Faculty of Science, with research strengths in ocean and climate health, Indigenous knowledge, clean growth, health sciences, and sustainable communities. - Collaborated with researchers on large-scale funding opportunities that fostered interdisciplinary research and industry partnerships. - Advised on matters of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) with faculty members.

- Assisted researchers with grant writing, project management, and pre-and post-award financial administration for high-impact Canada Foundation for Innovation applications. - Designed and managed multimillion-dollar budgets from project inception to conclusion. - Delivered a presentation on how to incorporate considerations of equity, diversity, and inclusion into research proposals to the faculties of science and engineering.

- Coordinated, revised, and redacted an interdepartmental submission to the Treasury Board Secretariat outlining pilot programs “Dimensions: equity, diversity, and inclusion Canada” and the “EDI Institutional Capacity-Building Grant.” - Prepared briefing notes on country, industry, and market indicators in science and technology for senior management and provided information about NSERC programs and the Canadian funding ecosystem to postsecondary institutions, foreign delegates, and researchers.

- Translated and revised highly technical texts in the fields of science, technology, and engineering, including research proposals, researcher profiles, job descriptions, program literature, and agency guidelines and managed and assigned agency-wide translation requests.

- Focused on topics such as socioeconomic pressures surrounding growth of Eryrthroxylum coca in Colombia, Papaver somniferum in Afghanistan, and maize in Mexico; geopolitical and industrial impacts of illicit crop production; strategies for crop substitution; and socioecological agri-food networks. - Coursework included development economics, micro- and macro-economics, international financial institutions, international environmental affairs, humanitarian assistance, and research methods.

- Focused on the intricacies of and relationships between French, English, and Spanish at the linguistic and cultural levels with the goal of accurately localizing a source text, editing problematic constructions in a target text, and using software and artificial intelligence to optimize output. - Coursework included revision and copyediting; translation theory; translation technologies; and French, English, and Spanish syntax, speech, and synergy.