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Welcome! I am a computer scientist trained in law.◊note{PhD (Computer
Science), 2014, University of British Columbia; JD, 2021, Peter
A. Allard School of Law.} I want to help demystify the law and give us
more confidence in the outcomes of the legal system and government
decision-making. I am interested in the many overlaps of law and
technology, especially algorithmic decision-making and copyright.

In law school, I spent a term at the Indigenous Community Legal
Clinic, was Senior Editor for the Canadian Journal of Family Law, and
convened a reading group on algorithms and the rule of law. After, I
clerked at the Court of Appeal for British Columbia and the Supreme
Court of Canada.

As a computer scientist, I've focused on visual object recognition,
machine learning, and applications of deep neural networks. I stay up
to date with recent publications and have continued to review for
[ICLR](https://iclr.cc/), [ICML](https://icml.cc/), and
[NeurIPS](https://neurips.cc/).

All of my work is connected to the relationships that I've been part
of over the years: family, friends, instructors, supervisors and
mentors, students, and the places that I've lived. I am a
[settler](https://apihtawikosisan.com/2020/02/settling-on-a-name-names-for-non-indigenous-canadians/)
born in Winnipeg, [Treaty 1
Territory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_1), traditional
territory of the Anishinaabe, Cree, Oji-Cree, and Dakota Peoples, and
the homeland of the Métis Nation. I now live in Vancouver, which
overlaps with the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of
the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh.◊note{Learn more about the
land where you live at [native-land.ca](https://native-land.ca/).}

◊fig[#:src "assets/flying-colors.png" #:width "400px"]{The hangar from
my first flight instruction job. I'm thankful for all the time that I
spent with students in these cockpits.}

◊fig[#:src "assets/chilcotins.png" #:width "400px"]{Sunset at a lake
during a hiking trip through the South Chilcotins.}

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◊red{The views expressed on this blog are my own and do not represent
those of the Department of Justice or the Government of Canada.}

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◊heading{Selected publications}

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"Discretion in the Automated Administrative State" #:journal
"Can JL & Jur" #:volume "36" #:issue "1" #:first-page "171" #:year
"2023" #:url "https://www.doi.org/10.1017/cjlj.2022.25"]

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"McCann" #:title "Copyright Throughout a Creative AI Pipeline" #:year
"2021" #:journal "Can J Law & Tech" #:volume "19" #:first-page "109"
#:url "AI-copyright.html"]

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"McCann" #:title "Finding Harmony: *Law Society of British Columbia v
Trinity Western University*" #:comment-info "Case Comment" #:journal
"Dalhousie Journal of Legal Studies" #:volume "28" #:year "2019"
#:first-page "95" #:url
"https://commentary.canlii.org/w/canlii/2019CanLIIDocs2940"]

◊format-work[#:type "thesis" #:title "Object classification and
localization using spatially-localized features" #:author-given
"Sancho" #:author-family "McCann" #:thesis-description "PhD
Dissertation" #:institution "University of British Columbia" #:year
"2014" #:url
"https://open.library.ubc.ca/media/download/pdf/24/1.0167312/1"]

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#:author-family "McCann" #:author2-given "David G" #:author2-family
"Lowe" #:title "Spatially-local coding for object recognition"
#:proceedings "11th Asian Conference on Computer Vision" #:year "2012"
#:first-page "204" #:publisher "Springer" #:url
"assets/McCannLowe_ACCV2012_0851.pdf"]

◊format-work[#:type "proceedings" #:author-given "Sancho"
#:author-family "McCann" #:author2-given "David G" #:author2-family
"Lowe" #:title "Local naive Bayes nearest neighbor for image
classification" #:proceedings "Computer Vision and Pattern
Recognition" #:publisher "IEEE" #:year "2012" #:url
"assets/McCannLowe_CVPR2012_1925.pdf" #:first-page "3650"]

◊format-work[#:type "unpublished" #:author-given "Sancho"
#:author-family "McCann" #:title "Atmospheric Sounding Visualization"
#:url "assets/McCann-AtmosView.pdf" #:description "course report,
Information Visualization, Department of Computer Science, University
of British Columbia" #:year "2006"]

A more complete list is at my [Google Scholar
profile](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6C-udIUAAAAJ).