2024: AI-powered nutrition project featured by NRC as a success story; Invited to review NSERC Discovery Grant applications; Gave an invited presentation at Tokyo University of Science; Teaching CSI 4133 at the University of Ottawa; Student success story featured by the University of Waterloo; Invited to be an Academic Editor for PLOS Digital Health; Invited to review for AI4VA and OODCV at ECCV 2024; MetaFood Workshop at CVPR 2024; Food image analysis featured by New Scientist Magazine and The Wall Street Journal; Zara Cook's paper on EEG analysis received Best Undergraduate Student Paper award at I2MTC 2024; Medical AI research featured by NRC Success Story; Gave a Guest Lecture at the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Science, Florida Institute of Technology. 2023: Invited to review NSERC Discovery Grant applications; Gave a Guest Lecture at the Department of Computer Science, Lakehead University; Chaired New Beginning Initiative for the Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering Committee; Paper accepted to CVPR; Joined GenAI4Good global open source initiative; Invited to review thesis report for the University of Waterloo. 2022: Special Issue on Advances in Body Scanning by Journal of Imaging extended; Invited to review for NSERC Alliance grant; Paper accepted to IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (IF=7.0); Invited to serve as Associate Editor for IEEE Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Paper accepted to Med-Neurips 2022; Paper accepted to 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data; Special issue on Vision- and Image-Based Biomedical Diagnosis live; Invited to serve as a guest editor for Journal of Sensors; Invited to review for New Frontiers in Research Fund Transformation Competition (NFRFT 2022); Invited to review for NRC Ideation - New Beginnings Initiative; Paper accepted to ICML workshop on Healthcare AI and COVID-19; Two papers accepted to IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium; Invited to be Associate Editor, Frontiers in Oncology.
Research Experience
Senior research scientist at the Digital Technologies Research Centre, National Research Council Canada; Adjunct Research Professor at the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University; Academic editor for PLOS Digital Health; Associate editor for IEEE Canadian Journal of ECE.
Background
Research interests include Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Signal and Image Analysis, Robotics, Natural Language Processing, Computer Graphics, Geometry Processing, and Digital Human Modeling.