Dr. Jennifer Boger – VIPSS25

Adjunct Professor, Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo; Chief Scientific Officer, ESG.AI

Jennifer Boger (PhD, PEng) research focuses on creating technologies that enable more inclusive, equitable, and personal support for health, wellbeing, and quality of life for older adults. She leverages transdisciplinary collaboration and human-centric design practices that blend state-of-the art knowledge from computer science, engineering, and health sciences to create internationally renowned intelligent assistive technologies for supporting graceful aging. She spearheads the concept of ‘Ethical by Design’, which involves the systematic development of a methodology to enable disparate stakeholders to collaboratively build aspects such ethics, culture, and citizenship into products and systems throughout their lifecycle. She has been a lead researcher on more than 40 transdisciplinary projects that apply state-of-the-art computer science, engineering, and rehabilitation science resulting in more than 150 peer-reviewed publications.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jen-boger/