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Biography

Native of Neguac in New Brunswick (Canada), Rodrigue Savoie joined the National Research Council of Canada’s Institute for Information Technology (NRC-IIT) as a Research Council Officer in October 2001. He is currently Leader of NRC-IIT's e-Learning Research Group located in Moncton, New Brunswick.

Before joining the National Research Council, Dr. Savoie was an Assistant Professor at the School of Engineering (now the Faculty of Engineering) of the Université de Moncton where, since 1992, he taught technology and engineering courses. In addition to his teaching duties, Dr. Savoie was active as an internal and external multimedia consultant (web sites, leaflets, logos, etc.) while performing research in fluid mechanics and e-Learning.

On behalf of the NRC, Dr. Savoie leads (or otherwise participes in) many R&D; projects in Information Technology (IT) totalling more than $20M in investments. By tranforming ideas into new or improved products and services, these projects will impact positively on the daily lives of Canadians by creating and allowing more efficient access to all types of information (e.g. learning, health, security).

The recipient of several scholarships and research grants, Dr. Savoie is the principal or secondary author of several research publications on fluid mechanics and the scientific visualization of fluid flows. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the École Polytechnique de Montréal (1990), a M.Sc.A. (Fluid Mechanics) from the Université de Moncton (1992) and a Ph.D. (Fluid Mechanics) from the Université de Sherbrooke (1996).