Professor Ruths began his career at McGill in 2009 as an Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics. Soon after, he made the leap into the emerging field of Computational Social Science, where he rapidly established himself as a leading researcher in the field, not only in Canada, but internationally. He founded the McGill Centre for Social and Cultural Data Science, the first interdisciplinary research centre of its kind in Canada and one of the few in the world. He is also a devoted research advisor, mentoring over 30 students. He credits his bright-minded students with generating new ideas and growth in the way research is conducted in their research space.