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Service

The Farm To Fork team at the Guelph Farmers' Market

Beyond research and teaching, our lab is committed to active participation in community – both on and off campus. This includes serving on committees, organizing community events, giving public presentations, volunteering, inviting community expertise into the classroom, and aligning both research and teaching with community needs.

Lab members have volunteered time to support Soup Sisters of Guelph and Milton, have helped launch several Pint of Science events in Guelph, have attended the Ontario Universities Fair weekend in Toronto, and have welcomed students to the University of Guelph campus during Science & Engineering Sunday and Campus Preview Days.

I also have served on numerous scholarship and research grant adjudication committees (on and off campus), as well as numerous advisory panels. These include the Scientific Advisory Panel for Veranda, the eNuk Scientific Advisory Panel, and the RightMesh Scientific Advisory Panel. I was formerly a member of the SEED Steering Committee and was the Director of the Physical Science & Engineering Education Research Centre in the College of Engineering & Physical Sciences at the University of Guelph. I was a University of Guelph Senator. As a senator, I served as Vice-Chair of the Board of Undergraduate Studies, Chair of the Honours and Awards Committee, and as a member of the Planning and Priorities Committee.

Currently, I am serving my 2nd term as a member of the School of Computer Science Tenure and Promotion Committee. I am also a member of the Royal City Science Steering Committee and the Community Pet Care Project Advisory Council.

The following represents a small fraction of our service activities.

Pictured: The Farm To Fork team at the Guelph Farmers’ Market. Left to right: Dr. Daniel Gillis, Corey Alexander, Danny Williamson, Oliver Cook. Lee-Jay Cluskey-Belanger.

GuelphHacks was co-founded in 2016 by undergraduate students, Patrick Houlding and Jonathon MacPherson, and Dr. Daniel Gillis as a governing structure to the annual interdisciplinary and community-engaged hackathons organized and offered by the School of Computer Science. In 2022, it was renamed Gryph Hacks and moved under the Society for Computing and Information Sciences (SoCIS), with Dr. Gillis as faculty advisor. Past hackathons have included the Open Data Day Hackathon, the Net Zero Hackathon, The Feeding9Billion Challenge, GuelphHacks for Mental Health, the Improve Life Challenge, and Gryph Hacks.

The Improve Life Challenge is an annual one-day design challenge/hackathon that brings together a diverse group of undergraduate and graduate students from all colleges and disciplines across campus. The students are partnered with local businesses, government agencies, or not-for-profit/charitable organizations to develop solutions that improve life. Students and community partners work together to design and prototype solutions with guidance from mentors and experts while building their foundational skills. The Improve Life Challenge was last offered in collaboration with CBASE in March 2020.

The Gryphons Care Initiative was co-created by Dr. Gillis and Alumni Affairs & Development in 2017 to support ideas to improve life on campus and off. In particular, students, staff, and faculty can apply for funding to support initiatives or events that improve life. Gryphons Care funding is donated by staff and faculty. Due to administrative decisions, the initiative was closed.

Co-founded in 2012 by Dr. Daniel Gillis and Danny Williamson, Farm To Fork was developed by students studying computer science at the University of Guelph. The project was built to connect the needs of emergency food providers with those in our community who are able to donate food. The goal of the project is to improve the quality and quantity of food donated to the emergency food system. Development of the project continues today with the help of senior undergraduate students in the School of Computer Science.

The SEED is a community food project of the Guelph Community Health Centre with the goal to deliver programs and to advocate to address the causes and effects of food insecurity. Dr. Gillis was a member of the SEED Steering Committee. The SEED has worked with students of the ICON Transdisciplinary Classroom, and with senior students in the School of Computer Science via the third-year required course – Systems Analysis & Design in Application – and the fourth-year independent project and independent research courses. For more information about the SEED, click here.

The Guelph Coding Community was founded in 2013 by students in the School of Computer Science. Dr. Gillis has worked with the students since then to help organize student tech talks on a bi-weekly basis. Talks cover all aspects of computer science – from academics to hobbies, such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, gaming, ethics, human-computer interaction, app design, software development, and even mechanical keyboards.

Acknowledgement

Some of the research and work presented here takes place in the ancestral and continued homelands of the original peoples of Labrador: the Inuit of Nunatsiavut, the Inuit of NunatuKavut, the Innu of Nitassinan, and their ancestors. Some of our work also takes place on the ancestral lands of the Katzie, and Lummi people. Finally, we acknowledge that the University of Guelph resides in the ancestral and treaty lands of the Attawandaron people and the Mississaugas of the Credit, and we recognize and honour our Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Métis neighbours. Click here for more information about territorial acknowledgements.