Master's degrees, including AI (University of Ottawa)
Daniel S. Demoz
Toronto,ON
Summary
AI governance practitioner and builder based in Toronto. I help organizations adopt AI they can explain, audit and defend. My work covers AI policy, AI risk assessment and vendor reviews against NIST AI RMF, OSFI E-23, PIPEDA, Quebec Law 25 and Canada's Directive on Automated Decision-Making. I also build machine learning systems, so my governance work starts from how models actually behave. Lead Consultant at BRUKD Consultancy and Part-Time Professor of AI governance, machine learning and big data analytics at Ontario colleges. Author of Evidence-Based AI: The Discipline Behind Reliable AI and two SSRN papers. Working toward the IAPP AIGP certification.
Overview
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Research papers on SSRN
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Ontario colleges where I have taught
Work History
Lead Consultant
BRUKD Consultancy
Toronto, ON
12.2017 - Current
- Advise small and mid-sized Canadian organizations on AI governance, vendor selection, policy writing and staff training.
- Developed the Reliable AI Adoption Framework: six steps from business problem to outcomes and ROI, aligned with NIST AI RMF.
- Built proof-of-concept tools for AI governance assessment, AI vendor selection, and AI opportunity and ROI assessment.
- Built a lead scoring model for a real estate firm from CRM engagement data, with scores shown in a Power BI dashboard.
- Designed and delivered six full courses for the BOSS postgraduate program.
Part-Time Professor
Seneca Polytechnic, Centennial College, George Brown Polytechnic, Computek College
Toronto, ON
02.2021 - Current
- Teach AI governance, data management and analytics courses at Seneca Polytechnic, Centennial College, George Brown Polytechnic and Computek College.
- Designed and teach Law, Ethics and Social Responsibility in Software Development at Seneca Polytechnic.
- Taught postgraduate big data analytics, covering neural networks, predictive modelling, data mining and visualization.
- Teach SQL, SAS, SAS Viya, Power BI, Tableau and SPSS using real industry datasets, including insurance data.
- Developed a six-course business curriculum at Computek College.
International Development Research and Monitoring
Earlier experience
- Taught university courses and conducted applied research at a college of marine science and technology.
- Did UNDP-funded research on early warning systems for coastal communities.
- Coordinated social and environmental impact work for a national ministry of energy and mines, assessing how mining and energy projects affect local communities.
- Conducted impact assessment and managed monitoring and evaluation for HAMSET, a World Bank project.
Designed data collection tools, analyzed program data and wrote progress reports for government and international funders. - Worked with communities, government staff and donor partners to track project results.
Education
Master of Interdisciplinary - Artificial Intelligence
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, ON 2025.01 - 2026.06
Master of Arts - Development Management
Khon Kaen University
Postgraduate Certificate in Marketing Research - Analytics
Centennial College
Toronto, ONCertificate in Teaching and Learning - Higher Education
Centennial College
Toronto, ONBachelor of Arts - Sociology and Social Work
University of Asmara
Skills
SQL
AI governance and risk assessment
Python
Machine learning: scikit-learn, XGBoost, PyTorch, TensorFlow
SAS, SAS Viya and SPSS
LLM pipelines: LangChain, Hugging Face, OpenAI and Anthropic APIs
NIST AI RMF, OSFI E-23, PIPEDA, Quebec Law 25
Power BI and Tableau
Azure AI, AWS, GCP, Databricks, Spark
Entity resolution (Splink), MLflow, Git, Docker
Certification
Data Science Foundations - IBM
Accomplishments
- Author of the book Evidence-Based AI: The Discipline Behind Reliable AI.
- SSRN paper (October 2026): AI Governance Maturity: A Document Analysis of Ontario's Colleges, a review of governance documents from 24 colleges.
- SSRN paper (August 2026): Human Oversight or Automation Bias? Closing a Gap in Canada's Directive on Automated Decision-Making.
- Led a team of four on the Public Funding Accountability Platform (University of Ottawa AI for Accountability Hackathon, April 2026): resolved 23 million public funding records into about 851,000 organizations; wrote the matching, LLM and validation stages.
Timeline
Master of Interdisciplinary - Artificial Intelligence
University of Ottawa
2025.01 - 2026.06
Part-Time Professor
Seneca Polytechnic, Centennial College, George Brown Polytechnic, Computek College
02.2021 - Current
Lead Consultant
BRUKD Consultancy
12.2017 - Current
Master of Arts - Development Management
Khon Kaen University
Postgraduate Certificate in Marketing Research - Analytics
Centennial College
Certificate in Teaching and Learning - Higher Education
Centennial College
Bachelor of Arts - Sociology and Social Work
University of Asmara
International Development Research and Monitoring
Earlier experience