{"id":9770,"date":"2022-06-25T01:40:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T01:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cscan.webix.ca\/?page_id=9770"},"modified":"2026-05-23T19:59:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T23:59:39","slug":"past-winners","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/fr\/past-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Gagnants pr\u00e9c\u00e9dents"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"9770\" class=\"elementor elementor-9770\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f239329 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"f239329\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2bcfb11 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-heading\" data-id=\"2bcfb11\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\" ><div class=\"ekit-heading elementskit-section-title-wraper text_center   ekit_heading_tablet-   ekit_heading_mobile-\"><h2 class=\"ekit-heading--title elementskit-section-title \">Past Winners<\/h2><div class=\"ekit_heading_separetor_wraper ekit_heading_elementskit-border-divider ekit-dotted\"><div class=\"elementskit-border-divider ekit-dotted\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-72e7e23 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"72e7e23\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a0b193e\" data-id=\"a0b193e\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c248e60 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"c248e60\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1c45939 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1c45939\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Lifetime Achievement Award<\/strong><\/h4><p>These awards recognize current or former faculty members in Canadian Computer Science Departments, Schools, and Faculties who have made outstanding and sustained contributions to computing over their careers. 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has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Faith Ellen<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tProfessor Faith Ellen, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, has made\noutstanding lifetime contributions to computer science, particularly in theoretical fields such as\nparallel and distributed computing and data structures. She is internationally known for showing\nthat certain computational problems are impossible to solve or need a lot of resources, such as\ntime or space. Understanding what\u2019s not possible is extremely useful, focusing attention on\nspecial cases or simpler versions of the problems that can be solved or different settings where\nthey can be solved. Impossibility results are also useful for guiding algorithm designers towards\ndifferent, often innovative, approaches to solve computational problems or to know when to stop\nlooking for better solutions. One of her most influential contributions is her co-authored book,\nImpossibility Results for Distributed Computing. It describes the various techniques used to\nprove these kinds of results and provides clear examples of where they are used. This is a very\nvaluable resource for researchers and students.\nEllen and her students have obtained fundamental results on reaching consensus (an important\nbuilding block for many distributed systems including blockchains) and different weaker versions\nof consensus that can be solved more easily. She designed a new way to efficiently store a set\nof numbers so that, given any number, the closest number to it in the set can be found more\nquickly than was thought to be possible. She also proved that no algorithm can solve this\nproblem significantly faster. Another example of her creativity is a non-zero indicator, a more\nefficient way a processor can determine whether a resource is being used by other processors.\nThis algorithm has been used in real systems to manage their memory. For their work, she and\nher students have won numerous best paper awards.\nProfessor Ellen has been a leader in her international research community, serving on the\nprogram committees of over 50 conferences, the steering committees of four of these\nconferences, the editorial board of important journals, and the selection committees for various\nprestigious prizes. She was the program committee chair for both PODC and DISC (the top\ninternational conferences in the theory of distributed computing), the steering committee chair\nfor PODC, and the vice president of the ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and\nComputation Theory. For ten years, Professor Ellen was the program director of the CRA-W\nCanadian Distributed Mentorship Project, which facilitated research opportunities for\nundergraduate women in computer science.\nIn addition to her scholarly achievements, Professor Ellen is a dedicated mentor and educator,\ninfluencing a generation of researchers. Six of her former Ph.D. students are faculty members at\nCanadian Universities and one of them was the winner of a CS Can | Info Can best doctoral\nthesis award.\nProfessor Ellen holds the Bell Canada University Labs Chair in Information Systems in the\nDepartment of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. She became a Fellow of the ACM\nin 2014. 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src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/5.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-26101\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/5.png 350w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/5-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/5-12x12.png 12w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/5-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Ali Ghorbani<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDr. Ghorbani is a prominent figure in the fields of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, with a career that spans over 42 years in academia and research. Throughout his career, he has undertaken various academic roles, including department chair, director, scientific director, assistant dean, and dean. He is currently a Professor of Computer Science and holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Cybersecurity.\n\nIn 2016, he founded the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity (CIC) at the University of New Brunswick (UNB), where he currently serves as the Founding Director. From 2008 to 2017, he held the position of Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science at UNB. During his tenure, he significantly improved the faculty's research output and enhanced its visibility at local, national, and international levels. He initiated several new programs and established CS Square, a creative space designed for peer learning, knowledge sharing, extracurricular technical and creative IT activities, and entrepreneurship, where students with similar interests can meet and collaborate.\n\nDr. Ghorbani's research in cybersecurity has made a significant impact, as evidenced by nearly 30,000 citations of his publications. His work in creating and publishing 25 distinct benchmark datasets for cybersecurity and machine learning is unparalleled. His research has been featured in some of the leading venues within the fields of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, addressing the crucial intersection of these two areas.\n\nDr. Ghorbani is a co-inventor of four awarded patents and has filed one additional patent. Throughout his career, he has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles and has supervised more than 250 research associates, postdoctoral fellows, and students. Dr. Ghorbani has developed several technologies that have been adopted by high-tech companies. Additionally, he co-founded three startups.\n\nDr. Ghorbani is a co-founder of the UNB-NRC Cybersecurity Collaboration Consortium, established in 2019, and the National Cybersecurity Consortium (NCC), founded in 2020. He also co-founded the Privacy, Security, and Trust (PST) Network in Canada, which hosts an annual international conference and cybersecurity industry summit.  \nIn 2017, Dr. Ghorbani was honoured with the Startup Canada Senior Entrepreneur Award. In 2019, Canadian Immigrant Magazine recognized him as one of the Top 25 Canadian Immigrants of 2019. Mark Bulgutch's book \"Forty Brilliant Canadians and Their Vision for the Nation\" featured him as one of the 40 inspiring Canadians in 2022. He was also included in the book \u201cPioneers on the Information Highway: A History of Information Technology at UNB 1958-2008\u201d (2023). 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class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDoug Stinson is a distinguished scholar and educator in the fields of combinatorics and\ncryptography, with a career defined by pioneering research, exemplary teaching, and dedicated\nservice to the academic community. He is Professor emeritus at the University of Waterloo\u2019s David\nR. Cheriton School of Computer Science and holds adjunct appointments at the Cheriton School\nand Carleton\u2019s School of Mathematics and Statistics.\nHis achievements have been recognized through numerous awards. As a graduate student at the\nUniversity of Waterloo he received the Alumni PhD Gold Medal in 1981 awarded for the best PhD\ndissertation at the University each year. He became a Founding Fellow of the Institute of\nCombinatorics and its Applications (ICA) in 1990. The ICA is an international scientific\norganization formed to increase the visibility and influence of the combinatorial community. He\nsubsequently received their Hall Medal in 1994 which recognizes his extensive, high-quality midcareer\nresearch with substantial international impact and their Stanton Medal in 2022 to honour\nhis significant lifetime contributions to promoting the discipline of combinatorics through advocacy,\noutreach, service, teaching and\/or mentoring. He has held several esteemed professorships,\nincluding the NSERC\/Certicom Industrial Research Chair in Cryptography, and was appointed\nUniversity Research Chair at the University of Waterloo \u2013 a title conferred on a maximum of five\nfaculty members across the university each year. In recognition of his distinguished contributions,\nhe was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2011 and was named a University\nProfessor in 2013, a title held by only 19 active professors at Waterloo and 16 retired ones. His\ninfluence on the combinatorics and cryptography community is exemplified by the Fields Institute\nin Toronto holding a conference, Stinson66, in honor of his 66th birthday with presentations by\nleading scholars from around the world.\nDoug Stinson\u2019s research is in combinatorial cryptography, in which mathematical structures are\nused to construct systems to communicate unconditionally securely. The phrase \u201cunconditionally\nsecure\u201d means that the systems cannot be broken, even with infinite computational resources,\nand therefore they would remain secure regardless of any computational or algorithmic advances\nthat take place, including the construction of practical quantum computers. It essentially removes\nthe need for any unproven assumption in the design of cryptography. Stinson has made\nfoundational contributions to this area. His research career has been tremendously productive\nand impactful, with more than 400 publications in leading books, journals, and conferences, which\nhave garnered almost 30,000 citations and an h-index of 75, according to Google Scholar. Many\nof his contributions considered seminal within their fields. His research has had a significant\nimpact on the practical aspects of computing, as evidenced by applications in everyday\ntechnology, including the BluRay copyright system and the random number generator in the\niPhone (despite the lack of formal attribution).\nHe has made invaluable contributions to the combinatorics and cryptography communities\nthrough his extensive service. He served as president of the ICA from 2016 to 2022, held\nnumerous editorial roles, and chaired CRYPTO 1993, the field\u2019s premier conference. His\ncommitment to teaching and mentorship has been exemplary: he has supervised 12 postdoctoral\nfellows, 17 PhD students, and 16 master\u2019s students, many of whom have pursued successful\nacademic careers. 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Much of her work has been in collaboration with industrial partners including Nortel Networks, Mitel Networks, AT&amp;T, and General Motors Canada. \nAs an educator, Atlee is a co-author on one of the classic textbooks in software engineering: Software Engineering: Theory and Practice. She was the founding Director of the Software Engineering degree program at the University of Waterloo (2000-2005), where she led the development of the first Software Engineering program in Canada that was designed and delivered jointly by the Computer Science and the Electrical and Computer Engineering departments. She was a member of the ACM Education Council (2007-2009) and served on ACM\/IEEE joint task force to develop the 2004 Computing Curricula guidelines for Software Engineering.\nAtlee has a long history of promoting gender equity in STEM. 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class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Gregory Dudek<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSummary of achievements and contributions for Prof. Gregory Dudek Professor Gregory Dudek stands as a trailblazer in Canadian computer science, particularly in the field of mobile robotics. His vision led to the establishment of one of Canada's first robotics and AI labs in 1991, a time when such endeavors were unconventional. Dudek's commitment extended beyond building his lab at McGill; he actually laid the foundations for a pan-Canadian robotics community, which he continues to lead, challenging the best global robotics hubs. Dudek's research spans three key areas: robot localization, video data summarization, and underwater robotics. His work uniquely combines deep theoretical advancements with successful practical implementations, addressing fundamental challenges in algorithms, geometry, and control. Notably, his contributions to robot localization, beginning in the mid-1990s, showcased a rare blend of theoretical rigor and practical applicability. In the realm of video data summarization, Dudek applied computational geometry concepts to measure the distance between images, providing practical solutions for handling vast amounts of robotic sensor data. His work exemplifies the synergy between theoretical ideas and real-world applications. Underwater robotics, a challenging domain due to the properties of this unique environment complexities (limited visibility and inability to use standard communication and localization technologies) and autonomy requirements, became another focal point for Dudek. He is known for work with the AQUA robot, which demonstrated a remarkable fusion of perception, vehicle design, and control, yielding practical applications with industrial collaborations. Dudek's impact goes beyond research, evidenced by his significant service roles. Initiatives like the NSERC Canadian Robotics Network, under his leadership, connected universities, industrial partners, and government agencies for a decade, fostering collaboration and visibility for Canadian robotics internationally. The fact that Canada is an international leader in robotics today can largely be attributed to his leadership. Further, his role in organizing major international conferences and serving as editor of major robotics journals reflects his commitment to the global research community. In teaching and mentorship, Dudek's contributions are equally outstanding. A co-author of a popular robotics textbook, he is recognized for inspiring and guiding students. His mentorship record, with a substantial percentage of students becoming professors or working in top industry research divisions, attests to his impact. 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class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">David Fleet<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tProfessor David Fleet is a global research leader in computer vision, computational neuroscience, and machine learning. Much of his work has revolved around understanding visual motion, and he\u2019s examined this issue at many levels. At the lowest level, David and Allan Jepson first addressed the problem of computing optical flow \u2013 how objects seem to move in a sequence of images as a result of object or camera motion. His phase-based optical flow framework broke new ground in the computer vision community, and established David as one of the world\u2019s most elite researchers studying image motion. He and his colleagues also introduced the computer vision community\u2019s first benchmark, long before benchmarks became essential for evaluation. At the intermediate level, David and his colleagues have made fundamental contributions to motion segmentation and tracking \u2013 grouping together moving pixels that belong to the same object. And at the highest level, David and his colleagues were the first to combine both human geometry and scene physics to recover complex articulated human motion from a video sequence. David\u2019s interdisciplinary research program has had a profound impact on a range of fields. His work on image motion has taken him to the field of computational neuroscience, where he and his colleagues broke new ground in understanding how motion and depth is estimated in biological vision. His interest in structure and motion led him to the domain of biomedical imaging and electron cryo-microscopy. With his colleagues, David published a number of highly influential methods for determining the structure and motion of macromolecules at atomic-resolution, given noisy 2D images of a 3D biomolecule from a transmission electron microscopy. Their resulting CryoSPARC framework has become the predominant software used for cryo-EM structure determination in structural biology. Moreover, their extensions to the framework were shown to be remarkably effective for membrane proteins, and were key to determining the structure of the SARS-CoV2 spike protein in 2020. David\u2019s research excellence is reflected in over 170 papers published in the most influential venues in computer vision, machine learning, computational neuroscience, and biomedical imaging; his work has been cited over 49,000 times, with an impressive h-index of 84. His record of research excellence is matched by his distinguished record of leadership, both domestic and international. He has served in prominent leadership roles in our most highly respected conferences and journals, he was Chair of his department at the University of Toronto, and he served as Associate Research Director of the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence. More recently, he has been leading the Google DeepMind team in Toronto, one of world\u2019s elite industrial AI research labs, where he is developing some of the machine learning and vision community\u2019s leading diffusion models for image generation. Among his many prestigious awards, David received an Alfred P Sloan Research Fellowship in Computational Neuroscience, the Koenderink Prize for fundamental contributions to computer vision that withstood the test of time, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society, a Canadian CIFAR Artificial Intelligence Chair, and numerous best paper awards.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"ekit-team-social-list\">\n\t\t\t<li class=\"elementor-repeater-item-b37fad5\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~fleet\/\" aria-label=\"Website\">\n\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-globe\" viewBox=\"0 0 496 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M336.5 160C322 70.7 287.8 8 248 8s-74 62.7-88.5 152h177zM152 256c0 22.2 1.2 43.5 3.3 64h185.3c2.1-20.5 3.3-41.8 3.3-64s-1.2-43.5-3.3-64H155.3c-2.1 20.5-3.3 41.8-3.3 64zm324.7-96c-28.6-67.9-86.5-120.4-158-141.6 24.4 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class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Osmar Zaiane<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDr. Osmar Zaiane stands as a trailblazer in the fields of Data Mining and Machine Learning, his prolific career spanning decades marked by ground-breaking contributions in data mining algorithms that have left an indelible mark on both academia and industry. At the forefront of his achievements lies a rich tapestry of research, where Dr. Zaiane has consistently pushed the boundaries of knowledge. His publications, numbering in the hundreds (375 according to DBLP), delve into the heart of complex problems, providing innovative solutions that not only advance the theoretical underpinnings of Data Mining and Machine Learning but also find resonance in real-world applications. Key among his contributions is the development of associative classifiers, which has become a cornerstone in the field at the confluence of data mining and machine learning and providing interpretable predictive models. Other notable impactful contributions are in recommender systems and outlier detection applied to education and medicine. This ground-breaking work has not only opened new avenues of exploration for researchers but has also found practical applications across industries, revolutionizing the way we harness and interpret data. Beyond the laboratory, Dr. Zaiane's impact extends to education and mentorship. As an inspiring educator, he has shaped the minds of numerous students and junior researchers, instilling in them not only a passion for the subject matter but also a commitment to excellence and ethical conduct. A few of his former students are faculty members at Canadian universities (McGill, Guelph, Manitoba, MacEwan) and Virginia in the USA. The ripple effect of his mentorship is evident in the success stories of those who have had the privilege of learning under his guidance. Dr. Zaiane's leadership is not confined to the academic realm alone. Actively engaged in professional societies, conferences, and editorial boards, he has played a pivotal role in shaping the discourse within the community. His commitment to service and collaboration has elevated the standards and practices within Data Mining and Machine Learning, leaving an enduring legacy for future generations. As the Scientific Director, he led the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute for 12 years from 2009 to 2020 to international recognition and acknowledgment as one of the three pillars of Artificial Intelligence research in Canada in the federal pan-Canadian national strategy. He served as the secretary-treasurer of the prestigious ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) from 2009 to 2012, for which he received a service award in 2010. He also organized a multitude of international conferences in the field. In summary, Dr. Osmar Zaiane's lifetime of achievements is a testament to his unwavering dedication to advancing knowledge, fostering collaboration, and shaping the future of Data Mining and Machine Learning. His influence reverberates through research papers, practical applications, and the minds of those he has mentored, making him an exemplary candidate for recognition and celebration.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"ekit-team-social-list\">\n\t\t\t<li class=\"elementor-repeater-item-b37fad5\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.ualberta.ca\/directory\/person\/zaiane\" aria-label=\"Website\">\n\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-globe\" viewBox=\"0 0 496 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M336.5 160C322 70.7 287.8 8 248 8s-74 62.7-88.5 152h177zM152 256c0 22.2 1.2 43.5 3.3 64h185.3c2.1-20.5 3.3-41.8 3.3-64s-1.2-43.5-3.3-64H155.3c-2.1 20.5-3.3 41.8-3.3 64zm324.7-96c-28.6-67.9-86.5-120.4-158-141.6 24.4 33.8 41.2 84.7 50 141.6h108zM177.2 18.4C105.8 39.6 47.8 92.1 19.3 160h108c8.7-56.9 25.5-107.8 49.9-141.6zM487.4 192H372.7c2.1 21 3.3 42.5 3.3 64s-1.2 43-3.3 64h114.6c5.5-20.5 8.6-41.8 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width=\"889\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/sheelagh-carpendale-1-e1683428171225-889x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-17808\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Sheelagh Carpendale<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSheelagh Carpendale is a Simon Fraser University Computing Science Professor and Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Information visualization, and an international leader in data visualization and human-centered research. Her work centres on innovative technology design to better support people in their everyday lives. Drawing on her broad interdisciplinary background (fine arts, design, and computer science), she works with a range of people, from domain experts, individuals, and communities, to better under how people interact with data, information, and technologies that work towards creating more natural, accessible and understandable interactive technologies and data visualizations.\n\nAt the University of Calgary, Sheelagh Carpendale held a CRC in Information Visualization, and her longstanding partnership with SMART Technologies led to her NSERC\/AITF\/SMART Industrial Research Chair (IRC) in Interactive Technologies, which prompted the company to include touch-interactive tabletops as part of their offerings to classrooms and offices around the world. Whilst at the University of Calgary, Sheelagh was instrumental in founding the Interactions Lab (iLab), the interdisciplinary graduate program (Master\u2019s and PhD) in Computational Media Design, and starting her InnoVis (Innovations in Visualization) Research Group. In 2018, she moved her InnoVis research group to SFU, where she co-directs the newly formed ixLab (Interactive Experiences Lab). Sheelagh\u2019s many awards include the IEEE Visualization Career Award for lasting achievement in visualization, a 2012 NSERC EWR Steacie, a BAFTA (British equivalent to an Oscar), the Technology Alberta ASTech Award, and the Canadian Human Computer Communications Society Achievement Award (CHCCS). She is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, has been inducted into the IEEE Visualization Academy, and the ACM CHI Academy, which consists of principal leaders of the field of Human-Computer Interaction.\n\nSheelagh is fundamentally committed to empowering people by making information and data more accessible, transparent, and comprehensible. She has worked with a great variety of data, including forestry, chemistry, linguistic, and medical data \u2013 building visualizations and tools ranging from forest management to medical decision support. Her research has led to many empowering concepts, including personal visualization and constructive visualization, which build on our inherent understanding and experience with the physical world, opening possibilities of enabling non-experts to comprehend, create, and engage with data and data visualizations. These ideas are now widely used in workshops, classrooms, and even the United Nations (UN). Her co-authored book, \u2018Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook\u2019 (Greenberg, Carpendale, Marquardt, Buxton) has sold over 20,000 copies, has been translated into four languages, and is in use in numerous classrooms around the world. Sheelagh\u2019s rigorous qualitative research frequently leads to fundamental insights and innovative technologies, and her contribution to interaction fundamentals has led to two Lasting Impact Awards (Tabletop Territoriality, and 3D Touch Interaction). Her enviable breadth of research expertise helps fuel her insight into how people interact with technology, data, information, and each other.\n\nSheelagh has built a strong reputation for putting her trainees\u2019 needs first, who are now high-fliers themselves, most being professors or working in prestigious industrial research labs. Her trainees also regularly win top national and international awards, including the IEEE Visualization Dissertation Awards (4x), the Bill Buxton Best Canadian HCI Dissertation Awards (2x), an Ontario Early Researcher Award, and a Canada Research Chair. Additionally, and perhaps most importantly, Sheelagh Carpendale is committed to improving equity, diversity, and inclusion, and incorporating its guiding principles into all aspects of her work:  in her research projects, her public installations, in training highly qualified personnel, mentoring junior faculty, and \u2013 her research goals to empower a greater diversity of people \u2013 by inventing (often co-designing with communities) more appropriate and inclusive technology. Sheelagh Carpendale espouses the philosophy that excellence is increased through diversity, as is evidenced by her stellar trainees, who continue to propagate this philosophy in their own labs, research, and industry practices.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-910509b elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"910509b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_910509b_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#910509b_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"831\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/robin-cohen-831x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-17809\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/robin-cohen-831x1024.jpg 831w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/robin-cohen-768x947.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 831px) 100vw, 831px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_910509b_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRobin Cohen\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of Waterloo<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-910509b\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_910509b_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"831\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/robin-cohen-831x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-17809\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/robin-cohen-831x1024.jpg 831w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/robin-cohen-768x947.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 831px) 100vw, 831px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Robin Cohen<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRobin Cohen has been a role model for women in CS in Canada for over 35 years, staying in academia, reaching the highest levels of administration at her university and demonstrating the potential for top honours, with such awards as Canadian AI\u2019s Lifetime Achievement, and both uWaterloo\u2019s Distinguished Teacher Award and Graduate Supervision Award. She stands out among all others through the unmatched recognition that her Masters and PhD students have achieved under her supervision.\n\nQuite notably, at least four of her students have been awarded the Alumni Gold Medal, the top award a graduate student can receive at the University of Waterloo, and another three were awarded the Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies (the top graduate student award from the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo). One of her PhD students won the Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association Doctoral Dissertation Award. Her training and mentorship have also helped her students become very successful professionally. Her former graduate students are now successful faculty members across Canada at places such as Waterloo, Ottawa, Mount Allison, New Brunswick, and Simon Fraser, and at leading international institutions, including Penn State (USA), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and IIT Delhi (India). Many of her students have gone on to work at large tech companies, such as IBM, Google, and Meta.\n\nProf. Cohen\u2019s research has the truly impressive quality of being foundational in several important areas of AI. Her work in computational linguistics on argument understanding from the late 1970s is still being cited. She was one of the founding members of the User Modeling and Personalization community in the mid 1980s, which shaped some of the most important application areas of applied computing, fundamental to search engines and recommender systems used in e-commerce, e-learning, and social media. She is among the pioneers of the field of Trust and Reputation in the burgeoning area of multi-agent systems. Her contributions in this area not only provide advances with novel models and solutions but also serve to demonstrate the potential of results for such application areas as electronic marketplaces, social networking and self-driving vehicles. She was among the few early computer scientists with an interest in the social implications of computer technology, serving as the leading instructor of an upper-year undergraduate course on this topic and developing her own graduate-level course in the area. Her devotion this cause also led her to be one of the first with research papers on ethics and morality of AI agents, culminating in effort on the responsible development and deployment of artificial intelligence. In addition to publishing in some of the top international conferences and journals in AI, she has been a devoted champion of Canadian Artificial Intelligence, engaged with the society for this discipline since its inception and promoting attendance at their venues for her students.\n\nProf. Cohen\u2019s achievements include as well significant effort in service to her research community. Most notable here is her serving as program co-chair of one of the earliest user modeling conferences, and playing an active role in establishing the first journal devoted to that field. She has consistently joined the program committees of the main top-tier conferences in AI (including their newly-established streams on social impact). More recently, she has also devoted considerable attention to the multiagent systems community, with effort to maintaining the flagship venue of the Trust Modeling workshop. Prof. Cohen has also been a driving force in supporting doctoral symposia at various conferences.\n\nThrough all her endeavours, Prof. Cohen has been noticed for her keen ability to forge entirely new directions for research, but what stands out as her true hallmark quality is that of empathy, apparent through her teaching, service and research, serving as an inspiration for generations of computer scientists to come.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5a613b2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"5a613b2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v 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class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of Alberta<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-5a613b2\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_5a613b2_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 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768w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Russ-Greiner-2020-07-20-095-scaled-e1683433543616-13x12.jpg 13w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Russ-Greiner-2020-07-20-095-scaled-e1683433543616-400x370.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Russ-Greiner-2020-07-20-095-scaled-e1683433543616.jpg 1221w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Russell Greiner<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tProfessor Russ Greiner is a Canada CIFAR AI Chair, and Professor of Computing Science (Adjunct in Psychiatry) at the University of Alberta. In a career spanning over 40 years, in both academia and industry, he has excelled in research \u2013 with many important contributions across many areas of Artificial Intelligence \u2013 as well as mentoring and service.\n\nIn the 1980\u2019s, he contributed many results to the \u201cExpert System\u201d movement, and also some early papers related to automatic image understanding. In the 1990\u2019s, he was among the first to explore foundational issues in machine learning, helping to establish many of the underpinnings of this important field as it was emerging. Starting in the 2000\u2019s, much of his activity began to focus on practical applications of machine learning: in biology, chemistry and especially medical applications. He helped develop the Human Metabolome Database, which describes the 250,000+ small molecules in our bodies and how they relate to our health. It is now used daily by many thousands of researchers and developers worldwide. He has published results in many medical areas, with 50 papers related to screening, diagnosing and prognosing various types of cancer, 40 in medical imaging, 35 in psychiatry, as well as another 30+ in other medical areas, including many timely results relating to forecasting the spread of Covid-19. In addition to specific applications, his research also continues to address many foundational issues critical to producing effective medical models: exploring counterfactual reasoning, survival prediction, and ways to combine datasets from different hospitals. This research has been recognized internationally \u2013 with over 26,000 citations and an impressive H-index of 65. He has over 500 co-authors on these papers \u2013 mostly medical clinicians and researchers. His network of collaborators is continuously increasing, partially due to his many presentations to medical groups, the general public, and students describing the application of machine learning to medical tasks. This has led to many cold-calls, leading to many fruitful collaborations: Dr. Greiner has participated in over 40 successful medicine-related grants in the last decade, totaling over $25M. A recent grant review called him \u201cone of top 10 researchers in the world in machine learning for healthcare\u201d.\n\nProfessor Greiner is a very popular, and effective, supervisor \u2013 mentoring over 140 undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral students\/fellows in his career, including 11 whose theses were nominated for prizes, locally and nationally. Essentially all of his students have gone on to successful careers \u2013 many in top companies and 16 who are now professors (6with research chairs). In 2020, he received the Great Supervisor Award.\n\nDr. Greiner was a Program Chair for ICML (one of the top conferences in ML) in 2004 and its General Conference Chair in 2006. He has served as a Senior Editorial Board member for essentially all of the top journals in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, and also on the boards of several companies and organizations. He has delivered many hundreds of invited presentations and tutorials, and has organized many workshops. In 2002, he and 3 colleagues founded the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii), which has become one of the world\u2019s top centers for Artificial Intelligence.\n\nOver his career, he received many best paper awards in various conferences and journals, as well as several best reviewer awards. He also received many prestigious local, national and international awards, including a McCalla Professorship (2005), a Killam Professorship (2007), a AAAI Fellow (2007), a Canada CIFAR AI Chair (2021), the CAIAC Lifetime Achievement Award (2021) and the Precision Health (Senior) Innovator Award (2022). In 2022, was honored by having a public Research Plaque summarizing his research at the Telus World of Science.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-30b47d3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"30b47d3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_30b47d3_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#30b47d3_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lapalme-hd-300x286-1.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-17816\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lapalme-hd-300x286-1.png 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lapalme-hd-300x286-1-13x12.png 13w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_30b47d3_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGuy Lapalme\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-30b47d3\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_30b47d3_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lapalme-hd-300x286-1.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-17816\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lapalme-hd-300x286-1.png 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lapalme-hd-300x286-1-13x12.png 13w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Guy Lapalme<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGUY LAPALME worked as a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research (DIRO) at the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al between 1980 and 2018. In nearly forty years of scientific activity, Guy Lapalme has established himself as a reference in the field of natural language processing (NLP) on the national and international scene, as demonstrated by the following numerous recognitions: In 2010, the University of Neuch\u00e2tel (Switzerland) recognized his achievements and awarded him an honorary doctorate \u201cfor his seminal work in automatic natural language processing, his contributions to logical formalisms in language technologies, and his contribution to computational linguistics applied to French.\u201d In 2011, CAIAC (Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association) awarded him a Lifetime Achievement Award for his scientific excellence and contributions to the field of artificial intelligence. In 2013, he was elevated to the rank of Senior IEEE member. And finally, in 2019, the University of Montreal awarded him the title of Professor Emeritus, only the 5th in DIRO\u2019s 50+ year history of excellence.\n\nGuy Lapalme has published over 350 articles in refereed journals and conferences in both French and English. He is regularly invited to present his work at institutions around the world and has been invited to France several times as a professor for periods of several months. Over the course of his career, Guy Lapalme has supervised 54 master\u2019s students, 28 doctoral students and 11 postdoctoral researchers. Of these, 18 have pursued academic careers as professors or university researchers and 3 have created companies in the field of language processing.\n\nIn the mid-1980s, he helped founding Incognito (for informatique cognitive), one of the first research groups in artificial intelligence at the University of Montreal. Since 1997, his work has been carried out in the RALI (French acronym for Applied Research in Computational Linguistics), which he led with two colleagues, Jian-Yun Nie and Philippe Langlais. RALI is still one of the largest university-based NLP research groups in Canada. Since its creation, RALI researchers have obtained more than $2 million in sales and contracts and more than $6.5 million in grants from major funding agencies and industry. Guy Lapalme was heavily involved in the vast majority of these achievements.\n\nIn addition to a strong activity in statistical machine translation and translation tools, Guy Lapalme has established close ties with industry through NSERC-funded collaborative research projects with Canadian companies such as Terminotix, NLP Technologies, Druide Informatique, KeaText, Nuance, LittleBigJob, and with government agencies such as Environment Canada. Collaborating with industry on specific issues while ensuring that students graduate on time is an art that Guy Lapalme has successfully developed. That\u2019s why, in 2010, he was asked to present an invited lecture on the topic of university-industry cooperation at the annual Artificial Intelligence Conference.\n\nGuy Lapalme\u2019s career is a happy mix of innovative research and openness to the practical world through long-term collaboration with partners from both academia and industry.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d9e7fd9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"d9e7fd9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card 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https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/alan-mackworth-scaled-e1683428826701-1484x1536.jpg 1484w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/alan-mackworth-scaled-e1683428826701-12x12.jpg 12w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/alan-mackworth-scaled-e1683428826701-400x414.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/alan-mackworth-scaled-e1683428826701.jpg 1644w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 989px) 100vw, 989px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_d9e7fd9_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAlan Mackworth\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of 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He has been an influential leader at the helm of national and international AI societies, highly effective in making the case for AI research support and in advocating for policies that guide the use of AI to benefit society. Alan has also been an educational leader, initiating the development of the AI and cognitive systems programs at UBC, and co-authoring two books on AI and one on design ethics. He has been a wonderful supervisor, collaborator, mentor and teacher whose advisees are productive researchers themselves worldwide.\n\nAlan\u2019s pioneering research on constraint-based knowledge representations helped establish the field of constraint programming. His early work showed how physical constraints could be exploited to design and analyze intelligent computer vision systems. He subsequently showed how constraint-based programming could advance methods for scheduling, hybrid systems, and control theory, with many applications in robotics. His ideas are embedded in multiple constraint programming languages, and used for scheduling airline flights, truck deliveries and more. Alan is also known as the founding father of the famous world-wide robot soccer challenge RoboCup, stimulating an enormous range of research in perceptually-guided robotics and attracting new talent to the field. In 1993, two of Alan\u2019s landmark papers on constraint satisfaction have been honoured by the premier journal, Artificial Intelligence, as being among the 50 most highly cited papers in its 38-year history. His highly-cited work has also been recognized by numerous other prestigious awards, including a Canada Research Chair, an IBM Research Professorship, and the CAIAC Lifetime Achievement Award.\n\n\nAlan\u2019s research has led to a successful UBC spinoff company, Point Grey Research, which designed, manufactured and sold digital imaging and robot stereo vision systems. He has also worked with researchers across Canada who are focusing on the application of AI and robotics to the needs of the disabled and the elderly. His team developed a smart wheelchair that is aware of its surroundings and can assist its user in navigating its environment using maps, stereo vision and other sensors, leading to the formation of Braze Mobility, a successful startup that makes wheelchair sensors that ease navigation.\n\nAlan has been an effective leader in the development of AI at UBC, in Canada and internationally. He was the first Canadian president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the premier international AI scientific society. He has served as Vice-Chair and Chair of the Standing Committee of The One Hundred Year Study of Artificial Intelligence (AI100) based at Stanford. AI100 conducts longitudinal studies on AI, every five years over the next 100 years, that examines how applications of artificial intelligence will impact the ways in which people work, live and play. He has supervised or co-supervised 44 graduate students, many of whom have gone on to prominent positions in academia and industry, and he has also profoundly influenced the careers of other colleagues.\n\nAt UBC, Mackworth has developed or co-developed numerous CS courses and programs in artificial intelligence and related areas, notably UBC\u2019s popular Cognitive Systems program, joint across the Faculties of Arts and Science. He has co-authored two textbooks, Computational Intelligence: A Logical Approach (1998) and Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents (2010; Second Edition, 2017; a third edition is in the works, published by Cambridge University Press). 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350px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Gord McCalla<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDr. McCalla is among the founders and the world\u2019s top researchers in the areas of AI in Education (AIED) and User Modeling and Personalization (UMAP). His papers introducing planning techniques in intelligent tutoring systems, granularity-based diagnosis in user modeling, expertise finding in iHelp, the ecological approach and open learner modeling have been highly influential and widely cited. Six of his papers have won best paper awards at top conferences.\n\nDr. McCalla\u2019s impact on his students, mentees and young researchers from around the world has been profound. He has supervised or co-supervised 15 Ph.D. students and 32 M.Sc. students. His students have won best student paper awards; many of his PhD students are now faculty in Canada, Norway, China, and New Zealand, and his MSc students work for major IT companies. He was the recipient of the University of Saskatchewan\u2019s student-nominated Distinguished Graduate Supervisor Award in 2010.\n\nDr. McCalla is among the pioneers of Canadian AI research and served as a President of the executive committee of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence\/Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Canadienne pour l\u2019\u00e9tude de l\u2019intelligence par ordinateur (the predecessor to CAIAC). He co-founded (with Nick Cercone) the Computational Intelligence Journal. He took leadership in the broader context of the Canadian Computer Science community as President of the Canadian Association for Computer\n\nScience \/ Association informatique canadienne (CACS\/AIC), the Canadian academic computer science organization, staying on as immediate Past-President until 2015, when CACS\/AIC transitioned into CS-Can|Info-Can.\n\nDr. McCalla is a recognized leader in both the AIED and the UMAP international research communities. He served as program chair of major conferences such as AIED, UMAP, and ITS (Intelligent Tutoring Systems); as editorial board member for top journals such as IJAIED and UMUAI and eight other international journals; as President of the AIED Society; and member of the conference program committees of International conferences, such as AIED, UMAP, and ITS since their inception. At the 2021 AIED conference, Dr. McCalla was one of the finalists for the recently initiated AIED Lifetime Achievement award.\n\nDr. McCalla continues his leadership during his retirement; having just completed a massive amount of work as a lead co-editor of a special issue (Festschrift) in memory of our late colleague Jim Greer in the IJAIED journal, which attracted over 30 submissions from some of the leaders in the field and resulted in two volumes, with 24 accepted papers and over 700 pages, the largest special issue in the 30-years history of the journal. This significant effort brought the AIED community together in a noble endeavor to honour the memory of an influential scholar, colleague and friend.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-efa2e08 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"efa2e08\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0a5b4cb elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"0a5b4cb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card 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350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_0a5b4cb_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRobert Holte\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of Alberta<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-0a5b4cb\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_0a5b4cb_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" 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srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Robert-Holte-circle.png 350w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Robert-Holte-circle-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Robert-Holte-circle-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Robert-Holte-circle-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Robert Holte<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tProfessor Holte\u2019s research aims to develop scientific understanding and improved algorithms in the field of Artificial Intelligence, with a focus in the areas of Machine Learning and Heuristic Search.\n\nA machine learning algorithm uses training data, or past experience, to improve its performance at a specific task. His two most important contributions to machine learning are the 1R (OneR) system, and Cost Curves. 1R is an extremely simple system, making classifications based on just a single feature. Often, it is surprisingly accurate. It has been cited more than 2500 times by research work from many different fields of study, either as a classifier or a feature selection method. Cost Curves are used to evaluate and compare binary classifiers when misclassification costs are unequal or one of the classes is much rarer than the other. It is superior to any other method and, like 1R, has become a useful tool in a variety of fields of study.\n\nA heuristic search algorithm is a fast method for finding optimal paths between two nodes in a graph. For example, if the graph is a road map, a heuristic search algorithm could be used to quickly find the shortest route from your current location to a particular destination. Heuristic search is faster than standard methods because it uses an estimate of the distance to the goal, called a heuristic function. His two main contributions in this field are, (a) devising ways to create heuristic functions automatically, and (b) bidirectional search. He has explored many approaches to do (a): machine learning and abstraction \u2013 which means mapping the search space to an abstract search space and then using true distances in the abstract space as estimates of the distances in the original search space. Regarding (b), he has made substantial theoretical analysis to advance our understanding of bidirectional search, and has developed the MM algorithm, whose forward and backward search searches are guaranteed to \u201cmeet in the middle\u201d, a property that had eluded researchers for 50 years.\n\nIn addition to these impressive research results, he also served for many years as the Editor-in-Chief of \u201cMachine Learning\u201d, which was then unquestionably the top journal of the field. 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https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Francois-Laviolette-circle-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_6c8a371_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFran\u00e7ois Laviolette\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">Universit\u00e9 Laval\n(posthumously) <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-6c8a371\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_6c8a371_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" 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width=\"350\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Francois-Laviolette-circle.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-1628\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Francois-Laviolette-circle.png 350w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Francois-Laviolette-circle-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Francois-Laviolette-circle-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Francois-Laviolette-circle-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Fran\u00e7ois Laviolette<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFran\u00e7ois Laviolette (October 6, 1962 \u2013 December 26, 2021), Canada-CIFAR Chair in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and an NSERC\/Intact Financial Corporation Industrial Research Chair, was an eminent researcher who made major contributions to the theoretical foundations of AI and its application in various contexts. He first distinguished himself by solving a 60-year-old graph theory problem posed by mathematician Paul Erdo\u0308s, on the decomposition of infinite graphs. His doctoral dissertation was among the seven finalists at the 1998 Council of Graduate Schools\/University Microfilms International Distinguished Dissertation Award of Washington. When he joined the Department of Computer Science at Universit\u00e9 Laval in 2002, he began to shift his attention toward machine learning. A mere 10 years later, he had already made his mark through his contributions to the PAC-Bayesian bounds that determine the reliability of a learning algorithm, and to the analysis of genome sequencing\/assembly into fragments. Using a graph structure to represent fragments, this developed algorithm could undergo massively parallel processing\u2014a first at the time\u2014which reduced the de novo human genome assembly time from three weeks to about 10 hours!\n\nDuring his career, he wrote over 100 articles that have been cited more than 9,600 times. Among his most notable contributions to the foundations of AI is DANN, a domain-adaption learning algorithm that involves transferring learning achieved in one context to a different domain. He also made significant contributions to health research (including three articles in Nature journal Scientific Reports), insurance and aeronautics (as Quebec\u2019s Head Scientist on the DEEL project).\n\nWhile these are all of major importance, his contributions go beyond scientific advancement. Mr. Laviolette was a master builder of major projects. He was able to motivate, convince and collaborate with people. He created the Big Data Research Centre at Universit\u00e9 Laval (CRDM_UL), bringing together over 60 researchers from different fields. Mr. Laviolette was committed to the ethical aspects of AI and its social acceptability. He participated in the development of the Montr\u00e9al Declaration for a Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence whose signatories commit to the responsible and ethical use of AI and digital technologies. He was a founder of the International Observatory on the Societal Impacts of AI and Digital Technologies (OBVIA), as well as the Institute Intelligence and Data (IID) at Universit\u00e9 Laval. After being diagnosed with cancer, he acted as a patient-partner and expert in AI in several groups, such as Imagia\u2019s DHDP project, Catalis, and the AI Health Committee led by Quebec\u2019s Chief Scientist, as he believed that making health data available for research purposes will be a key factor in developing a healthy society.\n\nMr. Laviolette encouraged the creation and growth of an AI ecosystem in Quebec. Its industrial chair, major projects and the events organized by the CRDM_UL allow researchers, industries and companies to collaborate on emerging and traditional issues through AI. The DEEL (Dependable Explanation Learning) project, which aims to make AI certifiable as well as more robust and dependable, is another example of how Canadian and French researchers are collaborating with companies such as Thales, Bell, Bombardier and CAE.\n\nVery recently, a group of colleagues and friends created the Fran\u00e7ois Laviolette Scholarship Fund to support the work of graduate students, particularly on interpretability and the ethical and responsible use of data. Interpretability is essential in certain sectors, such as health and insurance, where a machine cannot be expected to make decisions on critical actions without it being able to provide a justification that humans can understand. He saw the Fund as a catalyst that could help create a responsible and transparent collective choice, connecting citizens, decision makers and organizations working with data and allowing data to be viewed as a natural resource that serves the good of all, thus initiating, perhaps, a new Quiet Revolution.\n\nFran\u00e7ois Laviolette positioned Canada as a leader in the pivotal transformations that AI is bringing to our lives. 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Her major career contributions have been in establishing interdisciplinary teams involving medical professionals, scientists and engineers, to improve health care, through research, teaching, and involvement with industry. The impacts are far-reaching; her many former students and colleagues are now paving the way towards better understanding of medical images, better surgery training, and earlier diagnosis and monitoring of several diseases.\n\nEarly work studying the interaction between radiologists and 2D medical image films helped to help design modern systems for radiologists to interact with and analyse digitized 3D MRI and CT images displayed on many monitors. Her team\u2019s analysis of the head images obtained in MRI scans led to practical methods to quantify the amount of brain plaque, allowing early diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) and brain atrophy, leading to better health outcomes for patients.\n\nWhile examining radiologists\u2019 interactions with digital MRI and CT images, Dr. Atkins became interested in a new technology \u2013 that of eyegaze tracking with portable eyeglasses, or with cameras located beneath a display monitor. This research led to a new understanding of how radiologists search for lesions while scanning through many 2D digital \u201cslices\u201d of 3D body structures. Methods to improve accuracy and efficiency are based on her team\u2019s research.\n\nOther applications for eyegaze tracking in the medical arena became fruitful from 2002 through collaborations with surgeons and trainee surgeons. Dr. Atkins\u2019 team pioneered the use of eyegaze tracking during actual laparoscopic surgeries performed at UBC, and led to many exciting discoveries about how surgeons view the 3D scene inside the body on a 2D screen, how they learn to perform eye-hand coordination, and how virtual surgery simulations can be designed for best learning outcomes. This research is being continued by Dr. Bin Zheng, Director and Chair of Surgery Simulation at the University of Alberta, and has led to many innovative ideas for improving surgery training.\n\nIn the late 1990s Dr. Atkins became involved in analyzing Dermatological color images through research collaborations with the Vancouver Skin Care Centre. In 2008 Dr. Atkins became an adjunct member of the UBC Department of Dermatology, which hosted the major 4-yearly International Dermatology conference, held in Vancouver in 2015. Her former graduate student Dr. Maryam Sadeghi founded a company in Vancouver, MetaOptima Inc., for providing smart skin analytics. MetaOptima has become a world-leader in machine learning algorithms to detect melanomas and other skin diseases, based on exposure at the conference. Dr. Atkins is Chief Scientific advisor to the company, using machine learning and teledermatology for diagnosing skin diseases. The company has registered over two million patients and many thousands of skin clinics throughout the world.\n\nShe has published over 65 journal papers, nearly 200 refereed conference papers and 2 patents (on skin imaging).\n\nAt every step in her computing career, she has been a pioneer, applying her computing skills to new application domains in medicine. She has been a mentor to over 60 undergraduate and graduate students, many of whom are women, and won SFU\u2019s first award for graduate supervision.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"e-n-tab-content-1390549205\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-1390549205\" data-tab-index=\"5\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 5;\" class=\" elementor-element elementor-element-3c73537 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"3c73537\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5932242 e-grid e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"5932242\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d3871df e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"d3871df\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d61b883 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"d61b883\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_d61b883_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#d61b883_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Logo_wordmark_colour-290x300-1.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-564\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_d61b883_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRen\u00e9e J. Miller\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of Toronto<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-d61b883\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_d61b883_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Logo_wordmark_colour-290x300-1.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-564\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Ren\u00e9e J. Miller<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tProfessor Rene\u0301e Miller is world-renowned as a pioneer in data management, especially for the creation of tools to integrate, transform, query and analyze information. Her contributions to data integration, schema mapping, and data exchange have established her as one of the seminal thinkers in database systems.\n\nOverall, Professor Miller\u2019s scholarly and applied research has been outstanding in quality, quantity, and breadth. Her research profile is unique in that it combines theoretical elegance, reflected by citations and scholarly awards, with industrial impact, reflected by patents and successful industrial products.\n\nHer work stands out for its originality and elegance, while being at the same time one of those rare and much-needed instances of academic research that bridges in a principled way theory and practice.\n\nAt the same time, Professor Miller has been a leader among her peers in Canada and abroad, spearheading research with seminal results.  Recently, inspired by the Open Data movement, she has been studying and creating open source data discovery and data preparation solutions. Her goal is to develop the scientific foundations to ensure that data can be used, curated and integrated in an open, transparent way so as to support the goals of transparent institutional decision-making.\n\nProfessor Miller was the second Bell Canada Chair of Information Systems at the University of Toronto,  a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.  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sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Ming Li<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tProfessor Ming Li has made major contributions to the creation of a modern information theory (Kolmogorov complexity) and in shaping the field of Computational Biology. Li completed his PhD at Cornell University in 1985, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard. A University Professor at the University of Waterloo, he won Killam Prize in 2010 for his contributions in Computer Science.\n\nWe live in an information society. What is information? Is there a theory that governs information carrying entities similar to that of Newtonian mechanics to the classical world? The answer is Kolmogorov complexity. Kolmogorov complexity provides a universal measure of information, information content, and randomness. Li and his colleagues have extended Kolmogorov complexity to two sequences that lead to a universal metric of information distance. They have also connected information to thermodynamics and computed the ultimate thermodynamics cost of creating or erasing a sequence. This has actually led to zero-shot learning. In a SIGKDD04 paper (pp. 206-215), Keogh, Lonardi and Ratanamahatana demonstrated that Li\u2019s parameter-free information distance method was better than all 51 methods for time series clustering found in the seven top data mining conferences. Over 1,000 papers have applied Li\u2019s method to language classification, question and answer, cancer cell line identification, music classification, phylogeny, anomaly detection, software measurement and obfuscation, malware detection, nucleosome occupancy, protein sequence\/structure classification, fetal heart rate tracing, COVID-19 analysis, deep learning, and many more.\n\nExpected-case analysis of algorithms is a major challenge in Computer Science, as one has to average over all possible inputs. A Kolmogorov random string holds the key to this problem. It turns out that if one analyzes an algorithm on one typical Kolmogorov random input, then that automatically gives the average case over all inputs. Li and his colleagues used this method to solve many open questions in theoretical computer science.\n\nThe complete history and theory of Kolmogorov complexity, together with these works and many applications were digested in Li and Vit\u00e1nyi\u2019s book \u201cAn Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and its Applications\u201d. The book is considered a classic text in Computer Science and widely read. It won the McGuffey Longevity Award in 2020.\n\nLi has worked in many other scientific areas, including his pioneering contributions to the field of Computational Biology. In particular, he has made substantial contributions to the area of Bioinformatics. Currently very relevant, some of his recent work is related to COVID-19 neutralizing antibody sequencing. DNA sequences have pairing mechanisms; hence, one can use PCR to sequence them, as in COVID-19 RNA tests. Protein sequences, on the other hand, cannot use PCR. In 2016, Li and his team published first complete protocol to sequence a complete monoclonal antibody in Nature Scientific Report. They then improved the process in PNAS\u20192017, Nature Methods\u20192019, then in Nature Machine Intelligence 2021 (accepted). These intensive research studies have created an industry of antibody sequencing. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Li\u2019s team has helped to process and analyze many antibody sequences.\n\nLi has been awarded the prestigious NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship and the Killam Research Fellowship. He is a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Bioinformatics and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, ACM, and IEEE.  He has also won the Ontario Premier\u2019s Discovery Award for Innovation Leadership.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ebe79bd e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"ebe79bd\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2859b35 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"2859b35\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_2859b35_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#2859b35_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Kellog-S-Booth-Awardee-1-1024x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-9805\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Kellog-S-Booth-Awardee-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Kellog-S-Booth-Awardee-1-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Kellog-S-Booth-Awardee-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Kellog-S-Booth-Awardee-1-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Kellog-S-Booth-Awardee-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Kellog-S-Booth-Awardee-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Kellog-S-Booth-Awardee-1.jpg 1085w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_2859b35_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tKellogg S. 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Booth<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDr. Kellogg Booth, a much-loved and accomplished researcher in computer graphics and human-computer interaction (HCI), has been an amazing leader nationally in building research capacity, in enabling interdisciplinary research, and in mentoring students and junior colleagues.\n\nKelly obtained a BSc at Caltech (1968) and MA (1970) and PhD (1975) at the University of California at Berkeley. He worked eight years in interactive graphics as a programmer at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory before taking a position at the University of Waterloo in 1977 where he co-founded the Computer Graphics Laboratory and later served as the third director of the Institute for Computer Research. He moved to The University of British Columbia in 1990 as founding director of the Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre (MAGIC) and member of the Imager Computer Graphics Laboratory. He has been Professor Emeritus since 2017.\n\nHis doctoral studies co-developed the novel PQ- tree data structure and linear-time algorithm for the consecutive ones problem that has been used extensively in bioinformatics. Over the decade that followed he worked on algorithms for graph-theoretic problems but eventually his core interests converged on computer graphics, interaction techniques, and collaboration technology.\n\nBoth a visionary and a selfless advocate for the field, Kelly took on increasingly significant roles at departmental, university, and national levels. At Waterloo and UBC, he fostered research collaborations between computer scientists and researchers across campus in a variety of disciplines by exploring applications of interactive computer graphics and visualization. He also built links to non-academic institutions. During the 1980s, he and his colleagues and students collaborated extensively with the National Research Council, the National Film Board, and almost all of the early Canadian animation software start-ups, training a generation of graphics and interaction experts who played critical roles in Canadian graphics and computer animation companies. During the 1990s, he helped initiate projects with Science World BC and BC Children\u2019s Hospital, and he led research collaborations with other universities. Under his guidance, MAGIC thrived as the \u201cgo-to\u201d centre at UBC for collaborations involving emerging digital media that touched on nearly every facet of academic research and teaching.\n\nNationally, Kelly was a researcher in the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS) network of centres of excellence (NCE), theme leader and director of technology in the TeleLearning NCE, associate director in the NECTAR strategic network, and founding scientific director of the Graphics, Animation, and New Media (GRAND) NCE, arguably his most significant contribution to Canadian computer science.\n\nGRAND was a unique community of 250+ researchers at 33 Canadian universities in nine provinces with over 160 industry partners and receptor organizations. Theoretical and applied problems in computer graphics, visualization, and human-computer interaction were explored by computer scientists and engineers working with social scientists and humanists to understand the cultural, economic, legal, and social consequences of emerging digital media technologies. A key aspect Kelly built into GRAND was inclusion of top Canadian art and design universities as equal partners in the research. Many collaborations initiated in GRAND are still in place.\n\nKelly has a keen insight into both the scholarly and non-scholarly aspects of building top-notch research environments. He is an unwavering advocate for teaching as an essential part of a research faculty member\u2019s portfolio. He has taught at all levels of the curriculum, ranging from discrete mathematics to introductory programming for engineers to advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in HCI and computer graphics. He received two honorable mentions for \u201cIncredible Instructor\u201d awards in UBC CS. He stands out for his excellence in mentoring, his selfless effort building the careers of others, and his contagious sense of adventure. His students are leaders in Canada and abroad in academia and in industry. He served as president of the Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society and as secretary on the CS- Can\/Info-Can Board of Directors.\n\nIt is hard to overstate the extent of Kelly\u2019s lifetime of contributions to Canadian computer science. 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https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Jonathan-Schaeffer-Awardee-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Jonathan-Schaeffer-Awardee.jpg 1085w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Jonathan Schaeffer<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJonathan Schaeffer is Distinguished Professor of Computing Science at the University of Alberta.  In a career spanning over 35 years, Jonathan has had impact locally in Edmonton, nationally in Canada, and internationally. He has excelled in research, teaching, and service.\n\nJonathan\u2019s research is in artificial intelligence (AI). As a graduate student, he was advised to work on AI applications of societal benefit, such as medical. But as Jonathan\u2019s non-academic passion was playing games, he decided to combine his pastime with his career. His AI research was concentrated in the areas of search (looking for solutions) and knowledge (assessing \u201cgoodness\u201d), both areas of importance to building high-performing game-playing programs. He developed a chess program that tied for first in the 1986 World Computer Chess Championship. He wrote a checkers program that made computing science history by being the first program to earn the right to play for the human World Championship. In 1992 his program narrowly lost, but in 1994 it became World Champion \u2014 a feat recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records . He continued work on checkers and in 2007 announced that checkers was solved \u2014 his program would never lose. He led an effort to create the first strong poker-playing program in 2003. In 2008, the University of Alberta\u2019s Poker Research Group achieved AI history by defeating world-class human players \u2014 another feat in the Guinness Book of World Records . In the 2000s he also worked on video games, helping develop software that was deployed by major games companies.\n\nJonathan\u2019s research has been recognized nationally and internationally -with over 12,000 citations and an impressive H-index of 58. He has trained over 75 graduate students and worked with many undergraduates. He is a popular teacher. Jonathan was one of the architects for the building of a national vision for high-performance computing (HPC) in Canada. As a co-author of the national long-range plan for Canadian HPC, in 2005 Jonathan brought the country together to successfully make the case for almost $250 million of funding to build this infrastructure of national importance.\n\nJonathan is a co-founder of the world-famous Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii). His first startup company, BioTools (1995-2009), built world-class bioinformatics software. He is the co-owner of Onlea (onlea.org, 2014-present), which builds engaging online learning experiences.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-250573a e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"250573a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8226b69 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"8226b69\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center 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https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/John-Tsotsos-Awardee.jpg 1085w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">John Tsotsos<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJohn Konstantine Tsotsos received his Hons. BASc in Engineering Science, MSc in Computer Science and PhD in Computer Science all from the University of Toronto in 1974, 1976 and 1980 respectively. He then joined the University of Toronto on faculty in both Departments of Computer Science and of Medicine. He founded the internationally respected computer vision group at the University of Toronto in 1980. He moved to York University in 2000 where he is Distinguished Research Professor of Vision Science, while maintaining Adjunct Professorships at the University of Toronto in the Departments of Computer Science and in Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences. He directed York\u2019s renowned Centre for Vision Research from 2000-2006 and is the founding Director of York\u2019s Centre for Innovation in Computing at Lassonde.\n\nTsotsos\u2019 research has always focused on how images are processed, understood and used. He recognized the importance of  interdisciplinarity in computer science research early, well before it became widely appreciated. One major contribution addressed the understanding of the limits of visual information processing. He provided the first formal theorems regarding the computational complexity of human vision. Using these, he defined a neural architecture and theory of human visual attention termed Selective Tuning, including counterintuitive predictions for human vision. These predictions have been strongly supported experimentally, forming a new basis for vision science. For example, one of these predictions that went against current thinking, was that top-down attention suppresses local interfering context. This is now supported by dozens of experiments. His 2011 MIT Press monograph, A Computational Perspective on Visual Attention, details his theory. He and his lab have examined many aspects of attentional processing in machines and in humans and he is best known internationally for this body of work. His lab is also well-recognized as a pioneer in active object recognition and visual search. Both research threads led to embodiments on practical robots, notably an early children\u2019s autonomous wheelchair project named PLAYBOT. Overall, his seminal contributions to computational vision span early and intermediate visual representations, computational complexity of perception, visual attention, robotic active perception, and medical image analysis, particularly in cardiology.\n\nTsotsos trained the future of Canadian computer vision and robotics researchers.  His trainees have gone on to strong research careers of their own or founded successful startups, with many in advanced leadership positions in academia and industry, nationally and internationally.\n\nAn interest in applied computing pervades his career. He is a co-inventor on 4 patents, was co-recipient of the 1997 CITO Innovation Award for Leadership in Product Development, and has co-founded 5 companies. He was an IBM Center for Advanced Studies Visiting Scientist for several years.\n\nHe has served on the editorial boards of several top journals of various mandates, spanning AI, computer vision, human vision, cognition, and applications in medicine. He has been on the organizing committees of over 100 workshops and conferences, including General Chair of computer vision\u2019s most prestigious conference, the International Conference on Computer Vision, in 1999.\n\nAdditional honours include: Canadian Heart Foundation Scholar 1981-1984; Fellow, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research 1985-1995; Tier I Canada Research Chair of Computational Vision 2003-2024; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 2010; Fellow IEEE, 2018; Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society Award for Research Excellence and Service, 2006; 1st President\u2019s Research Excellence Award from York University, 2009; Geoffrey J. Burton Memorial Lectureship in 2011 from the United Kingdom\u2019s Applied Vision Association for significant contribution to vision science; the Royal Society of Canada\u2019s 2015 Sir John William Dawson Medal for sustained excellence in multidisciplinary research, the first computer scientist so honored; and 10 conference paper recognitions.\n\nTsotsos\u2019 trainees celebrated his 65th birthday with a Verbal Festschrift and Banquet in May 2018 with over 100 attendees and a day\u2019s worth of excellent presentations (http:\/\/jtl.lassonde.yorku.ca\/2018\/08\/jkt65-celebration\/).\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"e-n-tab-content-1390549206\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-1390549206\" data-tab-index=\"6\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 6;\" class=\" elementor-element elementor-element-1c147f7 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"1c147f7\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-16b4cb3 e-grid e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"16b4cb3\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c5dc1b1 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"c5dc1b1\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-80a6caa elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"80a6caa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_80a6caa_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#80a6caa_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/morven-cropped.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10202\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/morven-cropped.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/morven-cropped-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/morven-cropped-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_80a6caa_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tW. Morven Gentleman\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-80a6caa\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_80a6caa_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/morven-cropped.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10202\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/morven-cropped.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/morven-cropped-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/morven-cropped-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">W. Morven Gentleman<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDr. W. Morven Gentleman (1942 \u2013 2018) made many outstanding and sustained contributions to the field of computing over his long career as a Canadian computer science faculty member and government and industrial researcher, including fundamental contributions to the fields of numerical and statistical computation and to the field of software engineering. All of his work was characteristically tempered with careful consideration for the practical as well as for the theoretical details necessary to put new ideas into use.\n\nHis early vision establishing the Math Faculty Computing Facility (MFCF) as a state-of-the-art facility to support teaching, research, and industry-relevant software development activities at the University of Waterloo was unique for its time.  MFCF helped make Waterloo the top undergraduate program in Canada throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, setting the bar for other departments.\n\nDr. Gentleman\u2019s subsequent work directing the Software Engineering Laboratory (SEL) at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), co-founding the Consortium for Software Engineering Research (CSER), and directing the Global Information Networking Institute (GINI) at Dalhousie University continued his dedication to bridging the gap between theory and practice.\n\nDr. Gentleman held full-time faculty positions at the University of Waterloo (1969-1983) and at Dalhousie University (2000-2008). He also held research positions in industry and government at Bell Telephone Laboratories (1965-1970) and the National Research Council of Canada (1983-2000). During this time he served on numerous boards and committees that oversaw or reviewed Canadian research programs and proposals, especially university-industry projects.\n\nThe sometimes subtle interplay between theory and practice was a recurrent theme in Dr. Gentleman\u2019s work that intertwined strong, theory-based discovery of new techniques coupled with careful and meticulous attention to the small details that all too often determine whether new-found knowledge can be put to practical usage. His interest in techniques for developing portable software that could be easily moved across platforms led to insights on the semantics of send-reply message-passing techniques and other abstractions that simplify human understanding of complex software systems.\n\nMuch of Dr. Gentleman\u2019s research looked across boundaries, such as hardware vs. software, different machine architectures, and different programming languages. His deep contributions to mathematical and statistical computation and real-time systems have consistently been recognized as significant contributions to the field. His mentoring and intellectual leadership at the University of Waterloo through the Math Faculty Computing Facility and his subsequent role at the NRC Software Engineering Laboratory and then in GINI at Dalhousie have helped improve the Canadian software industry and sustain productive collaborations between university and industry researchers. Dr. Gentleman is well deserving of a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f42f6b6 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"f42f6b6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-24bc32a elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"24bc32a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_24bc32a_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#24bc32a_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/hendren-cropped.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10210\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/hendren-cropped.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/hendren-cropped-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/hendren-cropped-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_24bc32a_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLaurie Hendren\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">McGill University<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-24bc32a\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_24bc32a_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/hendren-cropped.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10210\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/hendren-cropped.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/hendren-cropped-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/hendren-cropped-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Laurie Hendren<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLaurie Hendren (December 13, 1958 \u2013 May 27, 2019) was a professor in the School of Computer Science at McGill for 30 years. She was a world leader in programming languages and compilers. Her work in this area was so influential that, in addition to being awarded the 2019 Dahl-Nygaard Prize for seminal contributions to program analysis of procedural, object-oriented and aspect-oriented programming languages, she was chosen to be one of the 54 women from across the ages who appear in the Notable Women in Computer Science Card Deck.\n\nProfessor Hendren made important contributions to the open-source movement. Much of her work involved building and maintaining extensible frameworks which were made freely available to the community. She is best known for the SOOT framework which she created in 1998. This was an exciting time for the programming language community, as Java, now the most widely used programming language, had been introduced in 1996. Java has a substantial advantage over traditional languages in that the compiler runs in tandem with the program execution, continually recompiling to adopt to changes in the runtime environment. In Java\u2019s early years, however, Java compilers were in their infancy and Java programs ran hundreds of times slower than their C counterparts. Professor Hendren developed SOOT as a software framework for researching techniques to reason about Java programs to predict their runtime behaviour and to optimize them to run faster. Over a hundred research groups around the world now use SOOT to do the same thing. It is one of the primary tools for analyzing and transforming Java programs.\n\nSOOT was just one of the many long-lasting open source infrastructures that Professor Hendren created. Her final contribution along these lines McLab, was an open source alternative to the widely used MATLAB.\n\nProfessor Hendren\u2019s contributions were not limited to these frameworks.  She also made important contributions to program analysis itself, especially with regard to pointer analysis.\n\nOne seminal contribution there was to highlight the importance of differentiating between pointers that always point to the same object, and pointers that could but might not point to the same object.\n\nHer last project, OPAL, was a patient portal that empowered cancer patients by facilitating access to their medical records, access to information about their disease, and communication with their healthcare providers. OPAL was awarded an excellence prize by the Quebec Government.\n\nFor many of her projects, she mobilized and trained an army of students to work with her. A significant proportion of the compiler community in Canada active in 2020 was trained by Professor Hendren. She had a special ability to motivate and mobilize a group of students around a common goal. She received the Leo Yaffe Award for excellence in teaching from McGill University in recognition of her abilities.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-df2b661 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"df2b661\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-13bcabd elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"13bcabd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center 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Cordy has made high-impact research contributions in programming languages, software engineering, and artificial intelligence. His work has been widely published and cited, spun off to numerous companies, and made freely available through widely used public domain tools. His contributions are unique in that he has taken fundamental results in programming language theory, demonstrated how they can be used to build practical software engineering tools, and translated these tools into industrial practice.\n\nDr. Cordy is Emeritus Professor and past Director of the School of Computing at Queen\u2019s University at Kingston, and a founding member of the Software Technology Laboratory at Queen\u2019s University. Recent academic honours include the 20-year Most Influential Paper Award at SCAM 2019, the IEEE 19th International Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, the 10-year Most Influential Paper Award at ICPC 2018, the IEEE\/ACM 26th International Conference on Program Comprehension, the 10-year Most Influential Paper Award at SANER 2018, the IEEE 25th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution &amp; Reengineering, the 2016 Queen\u2019s University Prize for Excellence in Research, and the 10-year Most Influential Paper Award at CASCON 2014, the IBM 24th International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering.\n\nDr. Cordy has a long record of active service to the computing community. He is a past member and chair of several national and international awards committees, an emeritus member of IFIP Working Group 2.4, an ACM Distinguished Scientist, a Senior Member of the IEEE, an IBM Visiting Scientist and Faculty Fellow, and a registered professional engineer. He is a past member and chair of the NSERC grant selection committee in computer science, past member of the NSERC E.W.R. Steacie fellowships committee, and past member and chair of the Ontario early research awards panel. He has served on scores of program committees and editorial boards, has been invited to give more than 10 keynote addresses, has chaired over 15 ACM and IEEE international conferences, and has refereed thousands of technical papers, books and monographs. He has 43 refereed journal publications, 164 refereed conference papers published in proceedings, and 20 books\/chapters.\n\nDr. Cordy has been active in technology transfer. He served as President and CEO of TXL Software Research Inc. (2000-2003), was the Co-founder, Vice President and Chair of Legasys Corp. (1995-2000) and Co-founder and Director of Holt Software Associates Inc. (1986-2007).\n\nIn addition to these, he has actively worked closely with companies such as Bell Northern Research, IBM Canada and General Motors to facilitate their practical use of his research results.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-353e8bf e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"353e8bf\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b45a5b2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"b45a5b2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_b45a5b2_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#b45a5b2_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/wes-graham-cropped.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10226\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/wes-graham-cropped.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/wes-graham-cropped-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/wes-graham-cropped-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_b45a5b2_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJ. Wesley Graham\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of Waterloo\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-b45a5b2\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_b45a5b2_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/wes-graham-cropped.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10226\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/wes-graham-cropped.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/wes-graham-cropped-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/wes-graham-cropped-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">J. Wesley Graham<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFrom the 1960s to almost 2000, Professor J. Wesley Graham\u2019s pioneering work and leadership changed the way programming and other computer-related skills were taught at the University of Waterloo, across Canada and internationally. Thousands of copies of the software produced under his direction were used in over 60 countries, and influenced the teaching of hundreds of thousands of students as well as encouraging dramatic improvements in software development for business and government. His impact on Canadian and international computer science education and software development practices has been dramatic.\n\nWes Graham recognized that commercial software was not designed for teaching,  as a program-run took a minimum of 30 seconds, while an error produced an incomprehensible pile of paper. Teaching large groups of students with this software would not work and so, in 1965, Wes led four students and a junior faculty member in building WATFOR (Waterloo Fortran Compiler) for the IBM 7040 computer to solve the speed and error problems. This software made the University of Waterloo a leader in teaching undergraduate students about computers. WATFOR was re-implemented with the advent of the IBM 360.\n\nTens of thousands of copies of this software have been used in over 60 countries, influencing the teaching of hundreds of thousands of students. Recognizing that these techniques could make dramatic improvements in software development led to use of WATFOR and WATFIV by business and government.\n\nRecognition that FORTRAN could be improved led to WATFIV (Waterloo FORTRAN IV), and the introduction of structured programming (WATFIV-S). Many of these enhancements were incorporated into the FORTRAN standard. Wes Graham and two colleagues wrote two texts, \u201cFORTRAN IV with WATFOR\u201d and \u201cFORTRAN IV with WATFOR and WATFIV,\u201d which sold millions of copies.\n\nWes Graham led the development of other educational software, including software for COBOL, Pascal, Basic, APL, and local area networks called Waterloo MicroNET, Waterloo JANET and MacJANET. His research also created early versions of word processors, spreadsheets and databases.\n\nComputers were needed to support this education and in the early 60\u2019s Wes Graham convinced the University of Waterloo to invest in an IBM 7040 computer. With the creation of the Faculty of Mathematics at Waterloo, Wes Graham again provided leadership to obtain an IBM 360\/75, the largest computer installed in Canada. Because of the widespread use of Waterloo software, Wes acquired over $35,000,000 from major computer companies such as IBM, Digital Equipment and Hewlett Packard.\n\nWes Graham also influenced computer studies in Ontario secondary schools by helping to build the first curriculum and leading development of hardware and software for secondary school students.\n\nBy the late 70\u2019s, many University of Waterloo students wanted to be entrepreneurs in computing. Wes Graham sought a solution in which the University and students could jointly benefit. The first opportunity occurred in 1981\/82 when three of his former students started WATCOM, now a division of SAP, to produce educational software. Wes worked with these students, this spin-off company and the University to establish a model for a mutually beneficial relationship. This approach has been applied many times to create University of Waterloo spin-off companies. Other successful spin-offs such as Waterloo Maple and Open Text, employed the model pioneered by Wes Graham.\n\nTo recognize the contributions of Wes Graham, the University of Waterloo created the J.W. Graham Medal in Computing and Innovation in 1994, a medal awarded annually to a University of Waterloo graduate who exemplifies many of Graham\u2019s qualities. In 1978, Wes Graham received the Distinguished Teacher Award from the University of Waterloo and in 1999, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.\n\nWes Graham also contributed to professional organizations. He was President of the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS) for two terms, and was made an a CIPS Honorary Fellow in 1977. As Canadian Water Ski Association President, Wes pioneered automation of the scoring of water ski tournaments, first used in 1979 at the World Water Ski Championships. Wes Graham received a Builder Award in 1989 from Water Ski Canada.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3cb3817 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"3cb3817\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8e751e0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"8e751e0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_8e751e0_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#8e751e0_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Hugh-Williams-cropped.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10235\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Hugh-Williams-cropped.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Hugh-Williams-cropped-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_8e751e0_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHugh Williams\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of Manitoba\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-8e751e0\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_8e751e0_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Hugh-Williams-cropped.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10235\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Hugh-Williams-cropped.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Hugh-Williams-cropped-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Hugh Williams<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tProfessor Williams began his academic career in 1970 as a founding member of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manitoba, where he established a highly active research program in computational number theory, cryptography and the development of special-purpose computing devices. His distinguished career of more than thirty years at the University of Manitoba included a seven-year appointment as Associate Dean of Science for Research Development.\n\nIn 2001, Professor Williams joined the University of Calgary\u2019s Department of Mathematics and Statistics as the Alberta Informatics Circle of Research Excellence (iCORE) Chair in Algorithmic Number Theory and Cryptography. He was instrumental in recruiting a research team of exceptional quality to the institution, andestablished one of Canada\u2019s leading research centres in cryptography and information security, serving as its director for 10 years. In 2004, he became Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba.\n\nIn 2009, Professor Williams was tasked by the Government of Canada\u2019s Communications Security Establishment (CSE) to help create and lead a special Government institute with the mandate to conduct classified research in the areas of cryptology and knowledge discovery, with the primary mission of providing support for the Canadian Cryptologic Program and its international partners. Under Professor\n\nWilliams\u2019 directorship of six years, the Tutte Institute for Mathematics and Computing (TIMC) became a world-class high-tech mathematical and computational research institute. TIMC recruits top researchers from Canada and beyond to work together on providing leading-edge solutions to some of the most challenging and intricate problems of our day, with real-life implications for the security of Canadians and Canada\u2019s Allies.\n\nProfessor Williams is one of the founders of the discipline of computational number theory, introducing modern computing methods to one of the oldest areas of mathematics. The impact of his work has brought this subject to the forefront of contemporary research at the interface between mathematics and computer science. He has invented ground-breaking algorithms for solving difficult computational problems, analyzed them rigorously, and conducted extensive numerical experiments. Jointly with his students, he designed and built a suite of number sieves, which are state-of-the-art special-purpose hardware or software devices for performing number theoretic computations extremely efficiently.\n\nProfessor Williams\u2019 work not only revolutionized the field of number theory, but he was also one of the early pioneers of mathematical public-key cryptography, paving the way for number theory to form the foundation for present-day methods for secure communication and the protection of digital information.\n\nSeveral mathematical algorithms and cryptographic systems bear his name. His extensive contributions include some 200 research articles and three scholarly books, with an invited chapter to a further volume currently underway.\n\nProfessor Williams received numerous honours and awards, including a grant of $5.25 million for his iCORE Chair and recognition as Pioneer of Computing in Canada at IBM Canada\u2019s Centre for Advanced Studies Conference in 2005.\n\nHe has been a member of many scientific advisory panels, given an impressive number of invited lectures, and served on the editorial boards of several leading scholarly journals, including the highly prestigious Mathematics of Computation.\n\nAs a long-time mentor and supporter, Professor Williams has provided valuable advice and insight into all aspects of academic life to many young academics and students. He has trained numerous students at all levels, and many of his graduate students have become recognized leaders in academia, industry and government, making prominent contributions in their respective fields. 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89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1085\" height=\"1085\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Tamer-Ozsu-2019.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10248\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Tamer-Ozsu-2019.jpg 1085w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Tamer-Ozsu-2019-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Tamer-Ozsu-2019-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Tamer-Ozsu-2019-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1085px) 100vw, 1085px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Tamer \u00d6zsu<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tProfessor M. Tamer \u00d6zsu is distinguished for his outstanding and sustained contributions to computing over the course of his career, encompassing not only research but service as well. He has contributed to fundamental advances in the field of databases and data management, provided leadership in professional and academic communities to which he belongs, and mentored countless students, many of whom have become quite accomplished themselves.\n\nDr. \u00d6zsu\u2019s research on data management has two broad themes: distributed data management and application of database technology to interesting application domains with complex data management requirements, with frequent interplay between these themes. He is recognized as a pioneer in distributed data management, a field he has contributed to and shaped since its early days.\n\nFor all his accomplishments, Dr. \u00d6zsu remains ever accessible to students and colleagues, his office door always open, greeting visitors with a friendly smile and ready to dispense nuggets of wisdom accumulated over his long, illustrious career. His successes serve as an inspiration to all computer scientists, both in Canada and around the world.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-be7a0cf e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"be7a0cf\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-94c6322 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"94c6322\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation- text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_94c6322_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#94c6322_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"288\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Selim-Akl-2011.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10257\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Selim-Akl-2011.jpg 288w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Selim-Akl-2011-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Selim-Akl-2011-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_94c6322_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSelim G. Akl\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">Queen\u2019s University<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-94c6322\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_94c6322_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"288\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Selim-Akl-2011.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10257\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Selim-Akl-2011.jpg 288w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Selim-Akl-2011-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Selim-Akl-2011-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Selim G. Akl<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDr. Selim Akl is a worldwide expert in the fields of parallel computing and algorithm design. His 40+ years of research have focused on design and analysis of efficient solutions to computational problems with enormous processing time requirements. Such problems arise in many areas, including weather forecasting, drug development, and data analysis in ultra-large scale information banks.\n\nEsteemed for his clarity of vision, readiness to question existing dogma, and ability to blend mathematics with diverse application areas, Dr. Akl has influenced virtually every area of the field of computing, from communications and database security to quantum and biomedical computing.\n\nDr. Akl has also been a trailblazer in the field of cryptography, producing one of the first papers on digital signatures in 1981. His subsequent solution for controlling access to data in a hierarchical organization remains the definitive solution today. In communication networks, where a primary concern is safeguarding information integrity, Dr. Akl\u2019s research has resulted in a number of solutions that address the fundamental issue of cryptographic key distribution.\n\nMore recently, Dr. Akl began exploring new applications of the principles of computing in nature, focusing on the role it could play in solving a vast array of problems with human, scientific, and economic implications, such as disease prevention, green computing, and the production of clean energy, thereby helping maintain Canada as a world leader in this effort.\n\nVisionary, innovative, creative, and unfailingly curious, Dr. Akl has produced outstanding work that continues to expand the frontiers of his chosen discipline. His contributions have made, and continue to make, an impact around the world.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-62ad549 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"62ad549\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3538e38 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"3538e38\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation- text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_3538e38_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#3538e38_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"693\" height=\"693\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Lecuyer.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10265\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Lecuyer.jpg 693w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Lecuyer-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Lecuyer-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Lecuyer-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Lecuyer-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Lecuyer-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_3538e38_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPierre L\u2019Ecuyer\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-3538e38\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_3538e38_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"693\" height=\"693\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Lecuyer.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10265\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Lecuyer.jpg 693w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Lecuyer-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Lecuyer-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Lecuyer-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Lecuyer-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Lecuyer-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Pierre L\u2019Ecuyer<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPierre L\u2019Ecuyer is among the top research contributors to Computer Science in Canada. He is a global leader in research on stochastic modeling and simulation, and on simulation-based optimization. He is the world foremost expert in the design and implementation of random number generators for simulation.\n\nHe developed software libraries and systems (with extensive user guides and documentation) for the theoretical and empirical analysis of random number generators and quasi-Monte Carlo point sets, and for general discrete-event simulation. His specialized software is distributed freely in open-source and is used all over the world. His random number generators are deployed in major mathematical, statistical and simulation software such as Matlab, R, SAS, Arena, etc. His TestU01 package is currently the gold standard for statistical testing of random number generators. His Java simulation library SSJ is used for teaching and research in universities and research centers. 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Through his efforts over many years, exceptionally strong ties between academic and industry researchers in Canada were forged and strengthened. His leadership in establishing the IBM Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS) in 1990, the NSERC-funded Consortium for Software Engineering Research (CSER) in 1996, the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University in 1997, and the Academic Research Centre at Business Objects \/ SAP in 2006 is a series of significant achievements in building effective national and regional frameworks to support collaborative research between universities and companies. Dr. Slonim\u2019s exemplary record of service to the discipline stands out for its impact on the Canadian\n\nDr. Jacob Slonim\u2019s efforts to promote and maintain strong links between academic researchers and industry researchers through a number of initiatives have helped maintain Canada\u2019s standing in the forefront of the international computing community. 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Holt\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of Waterloo,\nUniversity of Toronto<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-086acd3\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_086acd3_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"699\" height=\"699\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Ric-Holt.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10286\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Ric-Holt.jpg 699w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Ric-Holt-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Ric-Holt-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Ric-Holt-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Ric-Holt-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Ric-Holt-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 699px) 100vw, 699px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Richard C. Holt<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRichard C. \u201cRic\u201d Holt has been a pioneering member of the Computer Science academic community since his arrival at the University of Toronto as a new assistant professor in 1970, and continuing on at the University of Waterloo starting in 1997. He has made a number of seminal contributions in a variety of areas of Computer Systems research, including:\n\nOperating Systems: formalizing the notion of deadlock; the design of the SUE, Tunis, Secure Tunis, and HECTOR operating systems.\nProgramming Languages, Compilers, and Computer Science Education: the design and implementation of the SP\/k, Concurrent Euclid, Turing, TuringPlus, and OOT programming languages, which were very widely used in universities and high schools in Canada and internationally, starting in the 1980s.\nSoftware Architecture Modelling: the design and implementation of the PBS\/SWAG-kit toolsets for software architecture extraction, analysis, and visualization, the GROK relational algebra engine, and the GXL software exchange format for tool interoperability; major case studies on the architectures of Linux, Mozilla, Apache, and many others large open-source systems.\nSoftware Analytics: co-founding the research field of software analytics and mining software repositories and co-founding its key conference (the IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, CORE: A); contributing influential early work on a number of problems, including defect prediction, natural language topic modelling of development artifacts, and empirical software process extraction.\nOver the years, Ric has also supervised the PhDs of many students who have gone on to become leading academic figures, including Dave Barnard (President of the University of Manitoba, former President of the University of Regina), Jim Cordy (ACM Distinguished Scientist, former Director of the Computer Science Department at Queen\u2019s University), Spiros Mancoridis (Distinguished Professor, former Head, and Acting Dean of Computer Science at Drexel University), Ahmed Hassan (NSERC Canada Research Chair at Queen\u2019s University), Mike Godfrey (Cheriton Faculty Fellow and former NSERC-IRC Associate Chair, University of Waterloo), Bil Tzerpos (York University), Abram Hindle (2017 CS-CAN | INFO-CAN Outstanding Young CS Researcher, University of Alberta), and Sarah Nadi (University of Alberta).\n\nRic has been a co-author of dozens of highly-cited journal and conference publications, many of which have been very influential; for example, his 1972 paper on properties of deadlock is commonly referenced in operating systems textbooks, and his 1998 paper on Tarski relational algebra to model software architecture won a Most Influential Paper award. Google Scholar shows he has 20 papers with more than 100 citations each. In addition to his academic publishing record, Ric is also the co-author of 16 books on programming, operating systems, and computer science education.\n\nFinally, it should be pointed out that throughout Ric\u2019s career, he has managed to keep close contact with industry, forming close relationships with companies such as IBM Canada, Nortel Networks, Sun Microsystems, and CA Technologies. Through a long stream of industry collaborations, his students have been exposed to the problems of real-world software development, and in turn the ideas of his research group have impacted on the practices and products of these companies. Ric served as chair of the Nortel Networks Institute at the University of Waterloo, and held an NSERC Industrial Research Chair sponsored by Nortel Networks. 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class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Godfried Toussaint<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tProfessor Godfried Toussaint is the father of Canadian computational geometry and one of the pioneers of the field worldwide. It is largely as a result of his efforts that Canada plays such a leading role in the discipline. However, his interests are wide-ranging and he has initiated many other entirely new directions of multidisciplinary research. His most impressive successes in this regard are his recent contributions in music theory and ethno-musicology.\n\nProfessor Toussaint joined McGill\u2019s school of computer science in 1972, one year after its creation, and remained a faculty member in the school until 2007 when he retired. He is currently a Professor Emeritus at the school, a Research Associate at the MIT Computer Science Department, and McGill\u2019s Schulich School of Music, and a Professor at NYU Abu Dhabi.\n\nProfessor Toussaint has (co)written over 400 publications with over 1000 collaborators, and has given over 300 invited presentations. He solved many fundamental and foundational questions in Computational Geometry: he presented the first optimal algorithm to compute the diameter of a point set, he developed a tool called Rotating Calipers and used it to solve a host of geometric problems, he showed how to efficiently triangulate a simple polygon or a set of points. The list goes on and on.\n\nHis ability to communicate his ideas to researchers in diverse fields is demonstrated by his recently published book The Geometry of Musical Rhythm: What Makes a \u201cGood\u201d Rhythm Good? This book proposes a new way to analyze musical rhythms using geometry and shows how useful this approach can be in many domains of musicology in the broadest sense. The book was selected for inclusion in Princeton University Press\u2019 fifth anthology of the best writing on mathematics. It is also used as a textbook in music courses in several universities, including Professor Kofi Agawu\u2019s music theory class at Princeton University.\n\nProfessor Toussaint has had sixteen Ph.D. students, eight of whom hold tenured faculty positions at universities in Canada. In 2001 McGill awarded him the David Thomson Award for excellence in Graduation Teaching and Supervision.\n\nProfessor Toussaint was a cofounder of the two main computational geometry conferences, both held annually: The ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry and The Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry. He has been the editor of the leading international scholarly journals in his fields including the IEEE Transactions of Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, the Pattern Recognition journal, the Discrete and Computational Geometry journal, the journal of Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications, and the journal of Computational Geometry and Applications.\n\nClose to his heart is the Annual Bellairs Workshop on Computational Geometry, which he founded in 1986. It is held at the Bellairs Research Institute of McGill University in Barbados, West Indies. A select group of up to forty invited researchers work together on open problems for one week. These workshops in Computational Geometry garnered an international reputation for being among the best collaborative research workshops in the world, and have spawned similar workshops in several other countries including Japan and Spain.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1442bc1 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"1442bc1\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7e1be01 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"7e1be01\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_7e1be01_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#7e1be01_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"522\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Don-Cowan.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10308\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Don-Cowan.jpg 522w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Don-Cowan-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Don-Cowan-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Don-Cowan-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Don-Cowan-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_7e1be01_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDonald D. 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Cowan<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDonald Cowan is a pioneer in Canadian Computer Science. Shortly after finishing his PhD in 1966, he became head of the Computer Science Division of the Mathematics Department at the University of Waterloo. In 1967, he became Chair of the new Department of Applied Analysis and Computer Science, which started with only four faculty members of professorial rank in Computer Science. In the five-and-a-half years that followed, Cowan grew this to 26 research faculty plus five lecturers. It has been close to a half-century since Cowan stepped down as department chair, but the tone had been set for a large department focussed on both cutting edge research and on Canada\u2019s largest and best know undergraduate programme in the subject.\nDr. Cowan\u2019s early international connections also led to several programmes bringing faculty members from other countries to do PhD\u2019s at Waterloo, and sending Waterloo faculty for visits to these countries. Such programmes were developed with four Latin American countries, the largest being with Brazil through which several dozen of their faculty members came to Waterloo and Toronto. For this and related efforts, Donald Cowan was awarded the Grand Cross of Scientific Merit, Brazil\u2019s highest civilian scientific honour (2007).\n\nProfessor Cowan has been and continues to be a prolific researcher with close to 300 refereed publications, 17 books and 120 graduate students. His research has covered a broad spectrum of Computer Science. It has included local and wide area networks and their economics from the 1960\u2019s with the development of CANUNET, a pan-Canadian computer network, to the 1990\u2019s as a leader of the team producing the first local area network for personal computers. His work has also included the first efficient techniques for various combinatorial problems, state machines for communication protocols, and one of the first comprehensive editors for text tagged with the standard markup language SGML (which we now recognize as including hypertext and web page design).\n\nCowan\u2019s research and teaching interests led him to involvement with many software systems developed at Waterloo for educational use. Software systems developed by the Computer Systems Group from 1965 to 1995 have been used in over 3000 institutions in 60 counties, primarily in universities. Cowan has been Director of the Computer Systems Group since 1992. He was a director of WATFAC, a private charitable foundation also developing software for the education market. Funds from both of these efforts have been used for scholarships, summer fellowships for students and teachers, and to help fund a chair in Health Informatics.\n\nFor these and other efforts, Dr. Cowan has been awarded a Doctor of Science, honoris causa, from the University of Guelph (2011), ACM Distinguished Scientist (2010) and is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Waterloo\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d026977 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"d026977\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e159a09 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"e159a09\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" 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\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">David Kirkpatrick<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDr. David Kirkpatrick, Professor Emeritus at UBC, is one of Canada\u2019s most accomplished and respected theoretical computer scientists. He is internationally recognized for his seminal contributions to the design and mathematical analysis of algorithms and data structures. He has been a remarkable supervisor, collaborator, mentor and teacher whose advisees are productive researchers themselves worldwide.\n\nA pioneer in the field of computational geometry, David\u2019s highly cited work laid the foundation for efficient computational manipulation and analysis of shapes, with applications in computer graphics, robotics, data visualization and network analysis. In addition, his research has significantly enriched our understanding of fundamental combinatorial algorithms, and parallel and distributed computation. David has published ~170 papers and has received many awards and honours, including induction as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2009). Prominent researchers have high praise for his work:\n\n\u201cDavid is a one of the pioneers of the field of computational geometry [\u2026] The field has benefited tremendously by the breadth, depth, novelty, and mathematical elegance of his work.\u201d \u2013 Pankaj K. Agarwal, Duke University\n\n\u201cI regard David as one of the two best theorem provers with whom I have ever worked\u2026 a very clear thinker who is meticulous in making sure that all terms have been rigorously defined and who completely understands the problem\u2019s underlying structure.\u201d \u2013 Derek Corneil, U. Toronto\n\n\u201cDavid is one of the most influential theoretical computer scientists in Canada today\u201d \u2013 Pavol Hell, Simon Fraser University\n\nDavid has supervised or co-supervised 29 graduate students and six postdoctoral fellows. Nine of his PhD students, including four women, have gone on to successful research careers of their own, at institutions both in Canada and internationally. Advisees and junior collaborators have commented on the ways David has supported them:\n\n\u201cDavid\u2019s enthusiasm was infectious; nothing was more exciting for me during my time at UBC than these research sessions. David also instilled an appreciation of the importance of elegance in descriptions and proofs. I learned that we were approaching our goal when the exposition seemed obvious, easy and delightful!\u201d \u2013 Lisa Higham, Professor Emerita, U. Calgary\n\n\u201c[\u2026] when my first son was born, I started to ask myself questions: Should I continue? Should I settle on less ambitious goals? David\u2019s full support and encouragement helped me to embrace both family and research\u201d \u2013 Teresa Przytycka NIH Senior Investigator\n\n\u201cWorking with and learning from David has been one of the most enjoyable and rewarding experiences of my career.\u201d \u2013 Chris Thachuk, Banting Research Fellow, Caltech\n\n\u201cDavid is incredibly resourceful, insightful, thoughtful \u2013 and absolutely unselfish. [\u2026] He invests time and effort into nominating other researchers for awards and actively promotes their research.\u201d \u2013 Sandra Zilles, Canada Research Chair, U. Regina\n\nDavid is an outstanding teacher. He has won UBC Computer Science\u2019s \u201cIncredible Instructor\u201d Award six times and received an Honourable Mention five additional times. He is often found in the late afternoons with a cluster of students who are eager for his guidance, and stays as long as they want to work with him. Students noted that he \u201cloves teaching and he inspires others to learn\u201d, is \u201cknowledgeable, clever, helpful, gentle and kind\u201d, and helps students \u201cfind the right way of approaching the problem\u201d.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"e-n-tab-content-1390549209\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-1390549209\" data-tab-index=\"9\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 9;\" class=\" elementor-element elementor-element-60efcf1 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"60efcf1\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c627b79 e-grid e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"c627b79\" data-element_type=\"container\" 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aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_468c690_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJohn Mylopoulos\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of Toronto<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-468c690\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_468c690_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 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He is the first and most influential researcher to have made lasting and deep contributions to the three separate computer science fields of artificial intelligence, data management, and software engineering. He pioneered the use of conceptual modelling within all three fields. His seminal work on requirements modelling has had a lasting impact on academic research and industrial practice, and provides a foundation for the popular software engineering practice of model-driven software development. He is an academic leader and has been elected to top research positions in all three fields.\n\nMylopoulos has mentored a generation of researchers that include Canada Research Chairs, Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada, ACM Fellows, and experts in a large number of subareas of computer science. In 2009, his PhD descendants numbered over 260 (and this excludes the hundreds of post-doctoral fellows and master students he has had). These intellectual descendants populate and lead Computer Science departments and industrial research groups across Canada and the world. John was recognized with the 2014 Lifetime Service Award at the International Requirements Engineering Conference (the top venue in requirements engineering) for his leadership role and outstanding mentorship and support of young faculty.\n\nMylopoulos\u2019 research record places him among the top computer scientists in the world. On Nov 27, 2016 Google Scholar reports 33,293 citations with an h-index of 83 and i10-index of 329. He has won at least ten paper prizes (including two test-of-time impact awards) as well as being elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, and Fellow of the Entity-Relationship Foundation. He has received the Peter C. Chen Award, the highest honour in Conceptual Modelling research. There are very few computer scientists in the world with such an exceptional research record. He was the first Bell Canada Chair of Information Systems at the University of Toronto and holds an honorary doctorate from RWTH Aachen University.\n\nSince retiring from Toronto in 2009, Mylopoulos has played a central role in the establishment of the Informatics department at the University of Trento, Italy. At Trento, Mylopoulos was awarded a very competitive European Research Council Advanced Grant for exceptional established research leaders. During his tenure, Trento rose to be ranked as one of the top three Informatics departments in Italy (together with the much larger and older departments in Milan and Rome). Since retiring from Trento, Mylopoulos has begun a third career back in Canada with an appointment at the University of Ottawa. In 2015 and 2016, Mylopoulos published over two dozen publications in some of the highest impact forums in requirements engineering, conceptual modelling, and data management including Requirements Engineering, International Conference on Conceptual Modelling (ER), and the ACM Transactions on Database Systems most with student mentees.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1af3233 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"1af3233\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1d34e79 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"1d34e79\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_1d34e79_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#1d34e79_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"392\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/John-Brzozowski.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10339\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/John-Brzozowski.jpg 392w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/John-Brzozowski-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/John-Brzozowski-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/John-Brzozowski-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_1d34e79_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJohn Brzozowski\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">Dalhousie Universiy<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-1d34e79\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_1d34e79_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"392\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/John-Brzozowski.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10339\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/John-Brzozowski.jpg 392w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/John-Brzozowski-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/John-Brzozowski-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/John-Brzozowski-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">John Brzozowski<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJanusz A. (John) Brzozowski was one of the earliest researchers in theoretical computer science in Canada. He received the B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto in 1957 and 1959, respectively, and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1962. He began his academic career in 1962 as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Ottawa. In 1965-1966 he was Visiting Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1967 he joined the University of Waterloo as Professor of Computer Science. He formally retired from Waterloo in 1996, but continues to visit his office to collaborate with colleagues and students.\n\nHe is well known for his fundamental contributions to several areas of theoretical computer science. He has worked on many topics including the theory of asynchronous circuits, testing and simulation of digital circuits, VLSI models, specification of software modules, multi-valued logic, and algebra, but his most important area is the theory of automata. His method of derivatives of regular expressions has been generalized and applied to new problems. His minimization algorithm by double reversal is well known and often cited. His hierarchy of star-free languages has led to extensive new research on this topic. Recently he made substantial contributions in the area of descriptional complexity of regular languages and finite automata. He is the co-author of Digital Networks (Prentice-Hall, 1976) and Asynchronous Circuits (Springer-Verlag, 1995). He has also authored or co-authored 91 journal papers and 98 conference papers.\n\nDr. Brzozowski has supervised student research for 55 years, and continues to do so. At last count he has supervised 15 Ph.D. students, 28 Master\u2019s theses and projects, and a large number of undergraduate research projects (28 students in the past 17 years). He has a particularly well-deserved reputation for engaging Waterloo\u2019s best undergraduates in research. Several of his graduate and undergraduate students won awards for their research, and many have gone on to leading academic and industrial positions.\n\nDr. Brzozowski has been a significant contributor to the building of computer science at Waterloo and in Canada. He was chair of the department for seven years, 1978-1983 and 1987-1989, and contributed substantially to its current size and stature. He was also a leader in the development of computer science in Canada and around the world, through the Canadian Computer Science Chairs Committee, and the Computing Research Association.\n\nIn 1974-75 he was Visiting Professor at the University of Paris under the Canada-France exchange program. In 1984 he held a research fellowship at Kyoto University from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He received a Certificate of Appreciation from the Computing Research Association in 1992. On retirement from Waterloo in 1996 he was named Distinguished Professor Emeritus. In 2001 the Catholic University of Lublin, Poland awarded him a Medal of Merit. In 2005, not only Dr. Brzozowski, but also two of his former Ph.D. students, were named Canadian Pioneers in Computing by IBM Canada. In 2015 a one-day international conference in honour of his 80th birthday was held in Waterloo to recognize his many research accomplishments. A multi-author book entitled The Role of Theory in Computer Science, Essays Dedicated to Janusz Brzozowski was published in 2017 by World Scientific.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1d72203 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"1d72203\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-eb1537d elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"eb1537d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_eb1537d_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#eb1537d_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"288\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Ian-Munro2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10347\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Ian-Munro2.jpg 288w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Ian-Munro2-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Ian-Munro2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_eb1537d_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tIan Munro\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of Waterloo<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-eb1537d\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_eb1537d_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"288\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Ian-Munro2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10347\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Ian-Munro2.jpg 288w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Ian-Munro2-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Ian-Munro2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Ian Munro<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tProfessor J. Ian Munro is an international leader in the field of algorithms and data structures. He is Canada\u2019s authority on data structures and has made fundamental contributions to the field. Over the past 45 years, he has changed views on both the practice and the theory of data structures and algorithms. He helped to shape the field of algorithm design particularly with respect to space efficient data organization. He has been recognized for his research achievements as:\n\nFellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2003).\nFellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2008).\nUniversity Professor (2006) at the University of Waterloo.\nCanada Research Chair in Algorithm Design (Tier 1, 2001-present).\nDr. Munro\u2019s current research focusses on space efficient data organization. The key idea is the creation of methods by which the structural information necessary for efficient processing in large scale applications can be represented, and effectively used, in a provably (near) minimal amount of space. In some applications, this structural information dominates \u201craw data\u201d by a factor of up to 50 (and potentially more). Taking more space can dramatically increase processing time due to the level of memory on which this information must reside. The area is one of tough mathematical problems, requiring techniques for proving that a minimum of a particular amount of auxiliary information is necessary to perform a search task quickly. It is also an area of great potential for substantial advances in computational practice. A second area of work has been in the computational complexity of comparison based problems (e.g. sorting) where he and colleagues have solved the 35-year-old problem of partial sorting. Another long-standing data organization question, one that essentially dates from the 1970\u2019s, was very recently solved by Munro and his colleagues. This problem is to quickly find the most efficient search structure possible for a set of values, given the probability of a request for each value and for a value falling between each pair.\n\nProfessor Munro has published over 85 journal papers and 135 conference papers. In addition to his research, Munro has become involved in attracting top students to Computer Science through programming contests at the national and international levels. 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Levesque<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHector Levesque is a Canadian academic and researcher, and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto. Hector is internationally recognized as one of the deepest and most original thinkers within Artificial Intelligence (AI).\n\nHector\u2019s research lies broadly in the area of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR&amp;R), but given the foundational nature of his contributions, and the fact that representation and reasoning form a critical substrate in many AI systems, they have had impact in many other subfields of AI, ranging from robotics, to planning, to multiagent systems. On the representation side, he has worked on the formalization of a number of concepts pertaining to artificial and natural agents including belief, goals, intentions, ability, and the interaction between knowledge, perception and action. On the reasoning side, his research mainly concerns how automated reasoning can be kept computationally tractable, including the use of greedy local search methods. Hector is recognized for his fundamental contributions to the development of several new fields of research including the fields of description logic, the study of tractability in knowledge representation, the study of intention and teamwork, the hardness of satisfiability problems, and cognitive robotics.\n\nHector received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1975, 1977, and 1981, respectively. Following graduation, he accepted a position at the Fairchild Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence Research (FLAIR) in Palo Alto, returning to Canada in 1984 to join the faculty at the University of Toronto, where he has remained since. A talented and inspiring teacher and mentor, Hector has trained a number of graduate students during the course of his career, the majority of whom hold academic or research positions at universities or research laboratories in Canada, the US, Europe, Asia, and Australia.\n\nHector is also a prolific writer, having authored over 130 papers appearing in top scholarly venues. He has also written four books, and edited three others. Hector\u2019s fundamental contributions to the field of AI have been recognized with a number of awards. In 1985, Hector became the first non-American to receive the \u201cComputers and Thought\u201d Award from the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), which is the highest honour bestowed by the field of AI on outstanding young scientists. He again made history nearly 30 years later with his awarding of the IJCAI \u201cResearch Excellence\u201d Award, considered one of the most prestigious prizes in artificial intelligence. He was the recipient of the E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada in 1990-91. He is a founding Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, now the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and was a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) from 1984 to 1995. In 2006, Hector was elected to the Royal Society of Canada. In 2011 he was elected a fellow of the American Association for theAdvancement of Science (AAAS), and in 2012 he was awarded the Canadian Artificial Intelligence (CAIAC) Lifetime Achievement Award, presented to an individual to recognize a lifetime of scientific excellence and outstanding contributions to the field of Artificial Intelligence.\n\nApart from the recognition for his body of research associated with the awards mentioned above, his specific research contributions are routinely singled out for accolades, including five best paper awards, a test of time award, and several other honourable mentions. While these awards all bear witness to the quality of Hector\u2019s work, they are but a small window into a broader set of research contributions. The true impact of one\u2019s research lies in the details. Indeed, Hector\u2019s three decades of scientific excellence and outstanding contributions to the Artificial Intelligence community establish him as a most deserving recipient of the CS-CAN Lifetime Achievement Award.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2327bc2 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"2327bc2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-af573df elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"af573df\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_af573df_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#af573df_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"425\" height=\"425\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Gregor-von-Bochmann.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10364\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Gregor-von-Bochmann.jpg 425w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Gregor-von-Bochmann-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Gregor-von-Bochmann-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Gregor-von-Bochmann-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Gregor-von-Bochmann-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_af573df_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGregor von Bochmann\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of Ottawa<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-af573df\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_af573df_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"425\" height=\"425\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Gregor-von-Bochmann.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10364\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Gregor-von-Bochmann.jpg 425w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Gregor-von-Bochmann-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Gregor-von-Bochmann-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Gregor-von-Bochmann-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Gregor-von-Bochmann-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Gregor von Bochmann<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGregor v. Bochmann pioneered and helped established what is now known as \u201cprotocol engineering\u201d, a field of fundamental importance: communication protocols are the language of communication networks, and their correctness is essential for today\u2019s global networks to function. Michel Diaz (Research Director, CNRS, Toulouse, France) even stated that \u201cwe can say without doubt that [Bochmann] founded the work and the domain of protocol engineering\u201d. These methods have had a particular impact on computer applications where errors must be strictly avoided, such as in high reliability software for controlling real-time systems, for instance aircrafts or nuclear power stations.\n\nGregor v. Bochmann was one of the first to recognize the importance of precise and formal specifications for the analysis and systematic verification of communication protocols, and the semiautomatic development of their implementations and tests. Joseph Sifakis (Research Director, CNRS, Grenoble, France), himself a leading worldwide expert in distributed systems, said that \u201cGregor v. Bochmann played a pioneering role in the definition of international ISO and ITU standards based on formal description techniques. [\u2026] There is no doubt that his action had an important impact of the acceptance of these techniques.\u201d\n\nSince 1975, his work contributed to the establishment of several new research directions, such as formal description techniques for communication protocols and services, protocol verification and implementation techniques, methods for test derivation from formal specifications, and the derivation of protocol and controller specifications from a given service specification. His work on formal description techniques strongly influenced the international standards in this area developed within the 1980s, which, in turn, contributed to the development of \u201cmodel-based development\u201d. The methods and tools developed in his group were not only useful for protocol engineering, but also in the more general context of software engineering for distributed systems and discrete event control systems. He is internationally recognized as a leader in this field. However, as pointed out by Prof. Dr. Reinhard Gotzhein (Professor, TU Kaiserslauter, Germany), these \u201care but some of Dr. Bochmann major achievements. He has carried out substantial research on many further topics, including object-oriented software development, quality of service management, protocol conversion, distributed multimedia applications, semi-automatic implementation of formally specified protocols, tools for the derivation and selection of test cases, automated test results analysis, hardware design with temporal logic, distributed algorithms for system control, and compiler construction\u201d. The list could have also included peer-to-peer systems, control of optical networks, and analysis of Rich Internet Applications.\n\nIn addition, he has shown an exemplary leadership for promoting research collaboration between universities and industries. Besides leading many important research projects sponsored by industry and\/or government, he participated in the creation of research institutes such as the Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montr\u00e9al (CRIM) and the Canadian Institute for Telecommunications Research (CITR).\n\nGregor v. Bochmann is a fellow of the IEEE, of the ACM, of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Engineering Institute of Canada. He holds doctorates honoris causa from the Universit\u00e9 Joseph Fourier of Grenoble and from the Universit\u00e9 de Rennes 2, both from France. He has received numerous awards throughout his career, including the Urgel Archambeault prize for exceptional contributions in the area of physical sciences, mathematics and engineering; the first ever ITAC Award for academic excellence in research in the field of information technology; the Thomas W. Eadie Medal of the Royal Society of Canada and the IEEE McNaughton Gold Medal. 33 PhD students and 83 MSc students graduated under his supervisions. 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father of quantum information science in Canada and one of its earliest pioneers worldwide.\n\nQuantum physics, which has its roots in the early twentieth century, is one of the greatest discoveries in the history of science. It explains the behaviour of nature at the microscopic scale of elementary particles. Initially studied by Einstein and other luminaries for the sole purpose of understanding nature, with no practical applications in mind, it has become ubiquitous in today\u2019s technology. From the laser to the computer, our society has become totally dependent on our understanding of quantum physics. However, a second quantum revolution is underway, in which the full power of the quantum world will be unleashed in ways never before thought possible, and some key aspects of this second quantum revolution owe their very existence to the trailblazing work of Professor Brassard.\n\nAmong his many discoveries, Professor Brassard is best known for the invention of quantum cryptography and quantum teleportation, both considered as fundamental keystones of the second quantum revolution. Quantum cryptography is the first truly practical application of this new paradigm. Harnessing counterintuitive features of the quantum world, it fulfils the age-old dream of codemakers: perfect secrecy in communications regardless of the codebreaker\u2019s computing power and technological sophistication. Two decades after its invention, Technology Review (published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) hailed quantum cryptography as one of \u201c10 Emerging Technologies that will Change the World\u201d, in particular owing to commercial ventures that have sprung up to market quantum cryptographic technologies, such as IdQuantique in Switzerland.\n\nMost famous among Professor Brassard\u2019s subsequent discoveries is quantum teleportation, which may evoke images of Star Trek, but is strictly based on established science. It enables the transmission of quantum information over classical channels between previously prepared sites. Quantum teleportation was born of a brainstorming session that took place in Professor Brassard\u2019s office, described as \u201cone of those moments ripe in history for a breakthrough\u201d by British astronomer and science writer David Darling in a chapter entitled \u201cA Miracle in Montreal\u201d of his popular science book Teleportation: The Impossible Leap. In his book, Darling refers to Professor Brassard as \u201cone of Canada\u2019s science superstars\u201d. Twenty years after this invention, Thomson Reuters admitted Professor Brassard in their highly select Hall of Citation Laureates, in effect predicting that he will be awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for his \u201cpioneering description of a protocol for quantum teleportation, which has since been experimentally verified\u201d.\n\nProfessor Brassard has played a pivotal role in creating and then transforming the field of quantum information science from what was perceived to be merely a fringe pursuit three decades ago into an area of vigorous and dynamic international activity. The importance of the field is clear from the recent announcement of the European Commission of a plan to launch a flagship initiative on quantum technology to the tune of one billion euros. Furthermore, China has launched in August 2016 the first quantum communication satellite with the dual purpose of implementing quantum cryptography and testing quantum teleportation over arbitrary distances. By virtue of his visionary thinking and groundbreaking research, Professor Gilles Brassard ranks among the world\u2019s most respected and influential computer scientists. 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0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/tom_hull_final.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10385\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/tom_hull_final.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/tom_hull_final-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/tom_hull_final-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Tom Hull<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTom Hull (1922-1996) was an outstanding scholar who made a lasting contribution to his discipline through novel research contributions, educating generations of university students, founding scientific journals and a society, and designing curricula for high school, undergraduate and graduate students. In addition, Tom was an incredibly gifted university administrator who chaired the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto during its formative years. Largely through his recruiting and retention efforts, his vision and his leadership, DCS at UofT has become and remains one of the top-10 computer science departments in North America.\n\nResearcher\n\u201cThomas E. Hull of the U. of Toronto has been one of the leading workers in numerical methods for ordinary differential equations for the best part of 40 years. Not only has he made many personal contributions, but he has also built up a research school in this subject that is second to none.\u201d [John Butcher, editor, Numerical Mathematics, Vol. 22, Nos. 1-3, 1996]\n\nEducator\nTom graduated 8 Ph.D. and 31 Masters students, and was a role model for dozens more. He chaired the ACM Committee on Graduate Education, was the only representative from a Canadian university on the ACM Committee that prepared Curriculum 68, and was a member of the Province of Ontario Department of Education\u2019s CS Study Committee. Together with co-authors, Tom wrote seven textbooks for high school or university students that played a very important role in establishing computer science as an academic discipline in the late 1960s and early 1970s.\n\nScientific Leader\nTom played an influential role in developing the research environment for scientific computing, holding leadership positions in SIAM and founding and running several SIAM and ACM journals. He also played a key role in creating the Canadian Applied Mathematics Society (CAMS). Tom was deeply involved in the NRC (the predecessor of NSERC), helping establish the existing funding structure for Canadian Computer Science.\n\nDepartment Builder\nTom Hull set off to build the top computer science department in Canada. He recruited some of the most talented young computer scientists from around the world, including Allan Borodin, Steve Cook, Dennis Tsichritzis and Jim Horning, and created the fair and supportive research environment that helped them thrive. He established a unique collaboration with the Electrical Engineering department (CSRG) that helped propel the Toronto Systems group to be among the very best in the world. He recruited and helped train a generation of future Computer Science leaders including Ed Lazowska (UW), John Gannon (UMD), Maria Klawe (UBC, Princeton, Harvey Mudd) and John Guttag (MIT).\n\nTom Hull received many awards and honours, including election to the Royal Society of Canada in 1971; an Honorary Doctorate from Dalhousie University in 1987; and election as an ACM Fellow in 1994.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8d8dd80 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"8d8dd80\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b408d77 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"b408d77\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation- text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_b408d77_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#b408d77_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/steve_cook_final.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10396\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/steve_cook_final.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/steve_cook_final-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/steve_cook_final-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_b408d77_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSteve Cook\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of Toronto\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-b408d77\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_b408d77_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/steve_cook_final.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10396\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/steve_cook_final.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/steve_cook_final-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/steve_cook_final-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Steve Cook<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tResearch\nWithout doubt, Prof. Cook is the best known Computer Science researcher in Canada and amongst the very elite in the world. Through the course of his extraordinary 40- year career, Professor Steve Cook has demonstrated excellence and impact on many aspects of theoretical computer science, on training of the next generation of Computer Scientists, and on the society as a whole. Cook also established the now famous P versus NP question as to whether or not every decision problem that is efficiently verifiable (in NP) can be made to be efficiently computable (in P) and conjectured (now known as Cook\u2019s Hypothesis) that P does not equal NP. The P versus NP question is one of the seven million dollar \u201cMillennium Prize Problems\u201d listed by the Clay Mathematics Institute (www.claymath.org), and is widely considered to be among the top three, if not the top, open problems in mathematics today. He has continued as a major force in the evolution of Computational Complexity. In the 1980s, he laid down key ideas in the development of a solid theory of complexity of parallel computation. More recently, a major thrust of Dr. Cook\u2019s work has been in formal logics, their relation to program semantics, and their application to the notion of succinct proofs. In particular, he started the research field of proof complexity.\n\nTeaching\nCook is a spectacular teacher, an excellent advisor, and an overall leader within the mathematical and computer science communities. He has advised many of the best PhD students and postdocs in theoretical computer science in the world. Out of Prof. Cook\u2019s 29 Ph.D. students (and counting), most have gone on to highly successful careers of their own, obtaining positions in some of the most prestigious universities worldwide.\n\nRecognition\nCook holds the only Turing award in Canada, awarded to him in 1982. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, the Royal Society of Canada, the Royal Society (London), the National Academy of Sciences (United States). He is the recipient of the NSERC Research Excellence Award, winner of the Royal Society of Canada\u2019s John L. Synge Award, and a holder of a variety of other prizes and honors. He was also recently elected as Member of the Order of Ontario and as Officer of the Order of Canada.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e1603db e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"e1603db\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-51c57c0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"51c57c0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation- text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_51c57c0_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#51c57c0_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/nick_cercone_final.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10404\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/nick_cercone_final.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/nick_cercone_final-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/nick_cercone_final-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_51c57c0_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tNick Cercone\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">York University\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-51c57c0\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_51c57c0_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/nick_cercone_final.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10404\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/nick_cercone_final.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/nick_cercone_final-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/nick_cercone_final-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Nick Cercone<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tProfessor Cercone (1946-2015) had an exemplary career after receiving his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1975. He ended his career as a professor of Computer Science at Lassonde School of Engineering, York University. He became internationally well-known for his software design and computational approaches to data mining, language processing, and assistive technology for persons with disabilities. Professor Cercone\u2019s works and papers on \u2018Big Data\u2019 since 1990s have been central to the research in this key area in Information Technology to this date. He published over 400 refereed manuscripts in well-respected venues. His broadly-based research resulted in over $20 million in research funding from various sources. He was able to build extensive collaborations among numerous industrial partners (e.g., IBM &amp; Dapasoft), governmental agencies (e.g., Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) &amp; Ontario Centres of Excellence), and universities (e.g., York, Toronto &amp; Waterloo), resulting in outstanding contributions to the field of Computer Science. He interacted with dozens of Canadian companies, most notably, Rogers, IBM, Dapasoft and The Globe and Mail. Professor Cercone was the lead Principal Investigator of the Ontario Research Fund-Research Excellence \u2013 the Centre for Innovation in Information Visualization and Data-Driven Design, which is a world-leading centre in vision research in Canada. Last year, he was awarded, with his colleagues, seven NSERC Collaborative Research and Development grants worth $3.7M. He built a big collaboration of university and industry researchers entitled the Big Data Research Analytics and Information Network Alliance that was initially funded with $4M from the Ontario Research Fund for Research Excellence.\n\nDr. Cercone also had a magnificent record of teaching, supervision and leadership contributions particularly to the computer science community through his achievements as a professor and leader at several universities (including York, Dalhousie, Regina, Waterloo &amp; Simon Fraser) and through his involvement in numerous national and international scientific communities, program committees and boards (NSERC, Steacie &amp; Canada Research Chair Committee). Besides his superb performance as a teacher at various Computer Science departments across the country, Professor Cercone trained over 100 successful Highly Qualified Personnel. Many of his students are currently holding important titles, such as university professor (21 of his students), Canada Research Chair Tier I, Presidential Young Investigator and Computer Science Chair.\n\nProfessor Cercone spent his entire career balancing research and mentorship while holding full-time administrative leadership appointments, including Chair of Computer Science (Simon Fraser University and University of Waterloo), Dean of Graduate Studies (University of Regina), Dean of Computer Science (Dalhousie University), Dean of Science and Engineering (York University), Vice President Research (University of Regina), and Interim Chair of Mechanical Engineering (York University). In these positions, he has made significant contributions to the computer science community and beyond. For instance, as Chair of Computer Science at Simon Fraser University and University of Waterloo, Dr. Cercone built the Schools into their present form, growing their faculty by significant numbers. As a Dean at several universities (Regina, Dalhousie, and York), he developed a number of outstanding Faculties with growing research profiles and innovative graduate and undergraduate programs. As Vice-President Research, Professor Cercone more than tripled the University of Regina\u2019s research funding in four years.\n\nProfessor Cercone also played an outstanding role serving on many major national and international committees and as general chair of 17 international conferences and program chair of 8 conferences. He held positions of influence on several NSERC committees, the Steacie committee, the Canada Foundation for Innovation Committee and the Canada Research Chair committee, to name a few. He was a theme coordinator and project leader of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems \u2013 Networks of Centres of Excellence. He served as President of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence (CSCSI\/SCEIO, now CAIAC), the Canadian AI Society, and CACS\/AIC, the Canadian national organization of Computer Science Departments\/Schools\/Faculties. He was founding co-editor of the Computational Intelligence journal.\n\nCercone was a much sought-after speaker at many international conferences (15 international conferences). For his contributions to Computer Science, he was recognized numerous times with the National Research Council of Canada award, Blackwell\u2019s award, the Canadian Society for the Computational Studies of Intelligence Distinguished Service award, and the Web Intelligence Consortium Outstanding Contribution award. He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of CAIAC.\n\nAll in all, Professor Cercone had a most productive career and contributed uniquely to the progress of Computer Science in Canada and beyond.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-735d5b8 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"735d5b8\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-21e1940 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"21e1940\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation- text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_21e1940_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#21e1940_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/frank_tompa_final.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10412\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/frank_tompa_final.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/frank_tompa_final-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/frank_tompa_final-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_21e1940_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFrank Tompa\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of Waterloo\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-21e1940\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_21e1940_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/frank_tompa_final.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10412\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/frank_tompa_final.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/frank_tompa_final-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/frank_tompa_final-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Frank Tompa<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tProfessor Frank William Tompa has contributed significantly in shaping modern computer science research and industry through his dedicated service to Canadian computer science and to Canadian academia more broadly. He has shown through his own innovative and transformative research that university-industry collaborations can be extremely fruitful endeavours, and he continues to support researchers from universities and industry across Canada as they strive to achieve their goals through similarly successful collaborations.\n\nDr. Tompa\u2019s innovations have significantly influenced the development of software capable of searching and browsing large texts and large text collections. Leveraging his background and earlier successes in database research, he co-led the University of Waterloo\u2019s groundbreaking project to design the world\u2019s first searchable, interactive electronic edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). The aim of the project was to develop a database system that is capable of supporting the needs of text creators (such as the editors at the Oxford University Press who maintain and enhance the OED), while simultaneously supporting the needs of text users (writers, editors, scholars). The database system development group included software designers and implementers, users from the Press, and users from the world-wide academic community. This close interaction from the beginning was key to its success.\n\nDr. Tompa\u2019s research included significant innovation in how to manage, browse, and search information expressed in documents with implicit and explicit structural units (headings, sections and subsections, footnotes and annotations, etc.). The principles underlying this research and the resulting systems have been applied to a wide variety of documents encoded with SGML and to Web pages encoded with HTML, and the research eventually influenced the development of XML technologies as well as Web search engines. Dr. Tompa co-founded Open Text Corporation to commercialize the software developed during the OED project, and today Open Text employs 8700 people and earns revenues of $1.8 billion annually.\n\nSubsequent to the OED project, Dr. Tompa led a major industry-university effort to harmonize text and relational database management systems. The software they produced demonstrated that text management extensions to SQL can become efficient components of existing database systems, and these same ideas have since appeared in the XML subsystems created by relational database vendors. This project was recognized with a University-Industry Synergy R&amp;D Partnership Award.\n\nIn database circles, Dr. Tompa is also widely known for his contributions to understanding the role of views in database systems. He is also recognized for several important contributions to hypertext management systems, including pioneering work on dynamically defined hypertexts.\n\nDr. Tompa has dedicated significant effort to support technology transfer and to foster university-industry joint research. He served on university-industry liaison boards within the University of Waterloo and spanning universities across Ontario. He served on the expert panel formed by NSERC to review of its IP Policy in 2008. He served on the MITACS Research Management Committee and still sits on the Mitacs Research Council, which supports industry-university joint research across all academic disciplines nation-wide.\n\nDr. Tompa\u2019s success across several university-industry collaborative research efforts and his efforts to promote similar success for other researchers should serve as inspiration for computer science researchers.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c8ca013 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"c8ca013\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-16ab81f elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"16ab81f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation- text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_16ab81f_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#16ab81f_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/derek_corneil_final.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10420\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/derek_corneil_final.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/derek_corneil_final-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/derek_corneil_final-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_16ab81f_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDerek Corneil\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of Toronto\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-16ab81f\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_16ab81f_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/derek_corneil_final.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10420\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/derek_corneil_final.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/derek_corneil_final-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/derek_corneil_final-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Derek Corneil<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tProf. Derek Corneil is one of those rare professors with an exceptional record in research, teaching and service. He first joined the University of Toronto as a charter member of the Department of Computer Science (DCS) graduate program in the Fall of 1964. He received his PhD from the Department in June 1968 and then joined the faculty in January 1970.\n\nDerek Corneil is recognized as one of the world\u2019s foremost experts in algorithmic graph theory, a mathematical field which is at the foundation of theoretical computer science, with over 100 refereed journal publications. He is also an outstanding research mentor who has supervised or co-supervised 27 Ph.D. theses, 36 M.Sc. theses, as well as 18 Postdoctoral Fellows.\n\nProf. Corneil has long been regarded as one of the department\u2019s best teachers at all levels of university teaching, receiving the Computer Science Student Union (CSSU) teaching award three times \u2014 in 1989-90, 2000-01 and 2006-07.\n\nHis vision of the tremendous value computing offers to society has led him to play a key role in many educational innovations. He has been instrumental in Computer Science curriculum development for both undergraduate and graduate students. Most of his contributions were in the theoretical areas of the field as well as methodologies for teaching the \u201cArt of Programming\u201d. Under his leadership, the Department started offering a first-year course to meet the computer literacy needs of non-CS students. Over the years, 12,000 students have taken this course, highlighting Prof. Corneil\u2019s vision of the central role that computing plays in society. During his term as Chair, the Department also increased its presence in high schools by inviting outstanding senior high school students to the campus for an intense 2-3-week summer program of learning about exciting research going on in the Department. In the 28 years of this program, over 1000 students (and later, high school teachers as well!) have taken part.\n\nProf. Corneil\u2019s impact on the Canadian Computer Science field has been phenomenal. As Department Chair, he played a key role in securing funding for and the formation of ITRC (Information Technology Research Centre). One of the goals of ITRC was to help develop the R&amp;D capacity of local IT industry and to develop ties with local universities so that our graduates would have exciting local job opportunities instead of having to go abroad. The creation of the Toronto IBM Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS) in 1990 was the direct outcome of ITRC\u2019s work. In 1991-98, as a UofT administrator, Corneil was instrumental in bringing the Fields Institute to the University of Toronto and in attracting Province of Ontario funding to support the Bell Canada University Labs. In 1998-99, Corneil was the founding Academic Director of the Bell University Labs in Toronto.\n\nBeyond Ontario, from January 2005 until September 2011, he was a member (and Chair from 2009 to 2011) of the International Research Advisory Committee (IRAC) for the ICT Centre of Research Excellence (iCORE) in the Province of Alberta. He was also a cofounder of CanaDAM (the Canadian Conference on Discrete and Applied Mathematics) and served as the Chair of CanaDAM\u2019s first Executive Committee.\n\nProf. Corneil is a Fellow of the Fields Institute and has served as the Elected Chair of the SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Discrete Mathematics Special Interest Group. During his career, he has given approximately 75 invited lectures at universities in 15 countries, and served as Editor of three journals. His efforts helped define Canadian Computer Science as a discipline and its role in the country. He is an outstanding researcher, research mentor and teacher, a gifted university administrator and a builder of research labs.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2c5767e e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"2c5767e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0b0fa46 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"0b0fa46\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation- text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_0b0fa46_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#0b0fa46_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/alan_george_final.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10427\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/alan_george_final.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/alan_george_final-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/alan_george_final-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_0b0fa46_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAlan George\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of Waterloo\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-0b0fa46\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_0b0fa46_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/alan_george_final.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10427\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/alan_george_final.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/alan_george_final-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/alan_george_final-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Alan George<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAlan George is a world-renowned computer scientist whose research in the area of scientific computing has been profoundly influential in methods for solving the immensely large computational problems that arise in almost every branch of science, engineering, economics, medicine, and many others. Additionally, he held numerous senior leadership positions at the University of Waterloo and was active in the governance of other academic and research institutions.\n\n\nFirst, a brief sketch of Alan George\u2019s education and administrative service: He attended the University of Alberta, where he received Bachelor and Master\u2019s degrees in 1964 and 1966. After serving as an instructor at the University of Alberta for a year, he was admitted to Stanford University, where he received a PhD in Computer Science in 1971. After graduation, he joined the Computer Science Department at the University of Waterloo, and subsequently served as Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics from 1980 to 1986. Following two years as Distinguished Scientist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Alan returned to Waterloo as Vice-President, Academic &amp; Provost, completing a five-year term on June 30, 1993. He again served as Dean of Mathematics from July 1998 until December 2000, when he became interim Vice-President, Academic&amp;Provost, resuming the deanship in August 2001, and completing his term June 30, 2005. He served as Associate Provost, Information Systems &amp; Technology (CIO) from July 2003 through June 2012, and concurrently served as interim Vice-President, University Research from January 1, 2006 until June 30, 2007 and as interim Dean of Graduate Studies from October 2007 until June 30, 2009. He retired as Distinguished Professor Emeritus in 2012. The fact that he held so many and varied administrative positions over more than 30 years is compelling testament to his effective leadership.\n\nAlan George research focused mainly on the many and varied aspects of solving large sparse systems of linear equations.Whether the problem is the design of an airliner or some other large machine or structure, weather forecasting, modelling ocean currents, or any number of other problems, solving it inevitably involves solving very large sparse systems of equations requiring a gigantic amount of computation. Problems involving several million equations is common. Alan George\u2019s research has led to huge reductions in the cost of solving these problems and has revolutionized the field of sparse matrix computation. For example, if n is the number of equations, one of his many discoveries was to show how to reduce the cost of solving many of these problems by a factor of \u221an. (If n is several million that is a big saving!) His development, along with his students, of the software package SPARSPAK made his research, and that of others, accessible to scientists and engineers, allowing them to solve important problems that were previously considered intractable. His books are widely used in the numerical linear algebra community.\n\nAlan\u2019s research contributions have been recognized through numerous awards and honours. In 1982 he was awarded the George E. Forsythe Memorial Prize for Leadership in Numerical Mathematics by the Association for Computing Machinery. He is a Fellow of the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (1980), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1992), a Fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (1993), and a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2009). The Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society awarded him its annual research prize in 2008. He received a Governor General\u2019s Commemorative Medal for the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada in 1992.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"e-n-tab-content-13905492011\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-13905492011\" data-tab-index=\"11\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 11;\" class=\" elementor-element elementor-element-d9b7e54 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"d9b7e54\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-99b45c2 e-grid e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"99b45c2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b27a92f e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"b27a92f\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d1f8edf elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"d1f8edf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation- text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_d1f8edf_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#d1f8edf_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ronald_baecker.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10439\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ronald_baecker.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ronald_baecker-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ronald_baecker-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_d1f8edf_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRonald M. Baecker\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of Toronto<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-d1f8edf\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_d1f8edf_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ronald_baecker.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10439\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ronald_baecker.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ronald_baecker-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ronald_baecker-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Ronald M. Baecker<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRonald Baecker is one of the world\u2019s leading experts in human-computer interaction and user interface design. His outstanding scholarship has impacted the field of computer science in profound and meaningful ways. An innovative and unconventional thinker, Dr. Baecker has been relentless in his quest to improve the nature of human interactions with computer technology, beginning with his groundbreaking computer animation research at MIT in the late 1960s. He directed pioneering work in software visualization and enhanced human-computer interaction with the University of Toronto\u2019s Dynamic Graphics Project (DGP) during the 1970s and 1980s; later investigations into computer-supported cooperative work culminated in his founding the interdisciplinary Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI) in 1995. His newest effort, the Technologies for Aging Gracefully lab (TAGlab), was established in 2008.\n\nThe thread that connects Dr. Baecker\u2019s cross-cutting contributions is foresight. As noted by the Canadian Human Computer Communications Society when awarding him its prestigious Achievement Award in 2005: \u201cHe has seen emerging issues well ahead of others, and provided leadership by initiating research activity in new areas that have set the agenda for those who followed.\u201d\n\nA prolific researcher with over 185 publications, he has actively disseminated the results of his work, influencing a generation of human-computer interaction specialists with his articles, books, and videos \u2013complementing four decades of exceptional mentoring and teaching.\n\nHe has held an array of positions: within the University of Toronto he is Professor of Computer Science and Bell University Laboratories Chair Emeritus and, as noted above, founder\/director of both KMDI and TAGlab. An Affiliate Scientist with the Kunin-Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit of Baycrest and Adjunct Scientist with Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, he has held previous positions at Xerox PARC, Apple Computer, and MIT Media Lab; in Management at the University of Toronto and UBC; and in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.\n\nDr. Baecker has been active as an author, educator, and lecturer since his arrival at the University of Toronto (1972). He has developed original courses in interactive computer graphics, human-computer interaction, user interface and computational media and knowledge media design, computer-supported cooperative work and software entrepreneurship, sharing his unique perspective with the next generation of computer scientists. His Business of Software Course has been running since 1986 and was decades ahead of its time, and has been taken by over 3000 budding Canadian software entrepreneurs, many of whom have achieved major success. In 1990, he developed the world\u2019s first undergraduate human-computer interaction specialization within computer science. He has also supervised 50 Masters and\/or PhD theses, and 100 undergraduate RAs, initially as Director and Co-Director of the University of Toronto\u2019s renowned DGP \u2013 which he helped build into a world-class interactive computer graphics and human-computer interaction research lab in the 1970s and 1980s \u2013 and subsequently as founder of the KMDI (1995). Former students have become professors and\/or researchers at notable institutions worldwide (e.g. the Universities of British Columbia and Alberta, the National Research Council, IBM Canada, Microsoft, and Google), and include Bill Buxton, Canada\u2019s most published human-computer interaction scientist, who has already received 3 honorary doctorates; Bill Reeves, the first computer scientist ever to win an Academy Award; and Ian Small, a leading Silicon Valley entrepreneur.\n\nFor his distinguished contributions to computer science, Dr. Baecker has been recognized with numerous awards and distinctions. These include being named one of 60 Pioneers of Computer Graphics by (ACM SIGGRAPH, 1998); election to the elite Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) Academy (ACM SIGCHI, 2005); receipt of the Canadian Human Computer Communications Society Achievement Award (CHCCS, 2005); a Leadership Award of Merit from the Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network (ORION, 2007); election as an ACM Fellow (ACM, 2011); and the honour of being given a Canadian Digital Media Pioneer Award (GRAND, 2013). Dr. Baecker\u2019s research has been instrumental to establishing and maintaining Canada\u2019s position as a world leader in the fields of computer graphics, human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c55fb54 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"c55fb54\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e6769fe elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"e6769fe\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation- text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_e6769fe_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#e6769fe_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/maria_klawe.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10445\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/maria_klawe.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/maria_klawe-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/maria_klawe-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_e6769fe_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMaria M. Klawe\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">President Harvey Mudd College\n\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-e6769fe\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_e6769fe_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/maria_klawe.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10445\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/maria_klawe.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/maria_klawe-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/maria_klawe-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Maria M. Klawe<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMaria Klawe has a phenomenal record of service both in Canada and internationally. This record spans academic, professional and industry leadership roles, both in computer science and in science and engineering more broadly, and additionally includes effective strategies and advocacy to attract women to computer science. Maria also has significant research accomplishments, both in the foundations of computing and in human-centered interdisciplinary research.\n\nAcademic Leadership\nAs head of the Department of Computer Science at UBC (1988-1995), Maria \u201crevitalized [the] department with her energy, her enthusiasm and her vision of computer science as central to the modern university\u201d (supporting letter). At a time in the early 2000\u2019s when significant enrolment growth combined with faculty losses to enormous opportunities elsewhere threatened to severely erode the department, she developed a \u201crescue plan\u201d with new resources. Her impact is appreciated both by those in the department and beyond. \u201cThe resources that came were put to good use, morale rose and things started to click again\u201d (supporting letter) and \u201cthe credit that she has received for expanding and elevating the stature of the department here at UBC is well-deserved\u201d (supporting letter). Another supporting letter notes: \u201cAs UBC department chair, the department enjoyed a remarkable period of growth and recognition as a leading CS department.\u201d Maria has had further significant impact as Dean of Engineering at Princeton U. (2003-2006) and now as President of Harvey Mudd College (2006-present).\n\nLeadership in Professional Organizations and Industry\nMaria\u2019s numerous leadership roles include: President of the Association for Computing Machinery, the world\u2019s largest educational and scientific computing society, Vice-Chair of the Computing Research Association, the leading North American organization focusing on computing research (no woman has ever been Chair of this organization), Trustee of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and Co-Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Simons Institute. She has also continued to serve in many capacities in Canada, including on the\nselection committee of the Canada Excellence Research Chairs (2012-2014).\n\nWomen in Computing\nMaria has supported women in science and engineering in Canada and beyond, through her visionary leadership and unwavering personal support of innumerable students and colleagues. She co-founded the Computing Research Association\u2019s Committee on Women, which supports women in computing in both the U.S. and Canada through research experiences and career mentoring programs. She created educational programs and curricula that broaden the pathways into the computing field. She has published numerous important articles on the status of women in computing and effective strategies for recruiting and retaining women. One of the supporting letters notes: \u201cShe is a role model for everyone and especially for women pursing a career in computer science.\u201d\n\nResearch\nMaria\u2019s early theoretical research contributed new insights on important models of computing such as logic circuits, as well as algorithms for fundamental searching and optimization problems. Supporting letters note that \u201cMaria has been a very successful researcher (in particular with many seminal results in theoretical computer science\u201d who \u201cpublished consistently in the strongest conferences in the field\u201d. More recently, she has done influential research on educational computer games, examining the role of interactive technologies in facilitating collaboration in game playing and its implications for learning mathematics and science. She also helped initiate a major research project, conducted jointly by researchers at Princeton University and UBC, on mobile technologies that support people with aphasia, a memory disorder.\n\nOverall Impact\nOne of the supporting letters nicely summarizes Maria\u2019s accomplishments: she is \u201ca tireless and hugely effective advocate for the inclusion of women and other under-represented groups in our field [\u2026] there is no one [in Canada] aside from Steve Cook whose international visibility and reputation are as great as Maria\u2019s [\u2026] there is no one, period, who has demonstrated anything even remotely approximating Maria\u2019s diversity of first-echelon accomplishments. Maria has played all of the positions, and has played each at the very highest level.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-be5e5f3 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"be5e5f3\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ccf8b72 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"ccf8b72\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation- text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_ccf8b72_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#ccf8b72_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/pat_hume.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10453\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/pat_hume.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/pat_hume-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/pat_hume-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_ccf8b72_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJ.N. Patterson (Pat) Hume\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of Toronto<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-ccf8b72\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_ccf8b72_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/pat_hume.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10453\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/pat_hume.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/pat_hume-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/pat_hume-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">J.N. Patterson (Pat) Hume<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJames Nairn Patterson (Pat) Hume was a true pioneer of Canadian computing and a lifelong science educator. He developed software for Canada\u2019s first electronic computer, was a founding member of the University of Toronto\u2019s Computer Science department, co-created the still popular CBC TV series The Nature of Things (with his colleague Donald Ivey), and was author or co-author of more than 20 books in both computer science and physics.\n\nPat was an accidental computer scientist. He was a young physics professor in 1952 when Toronto acquired Canada\u2019s first electronic computer, called FERUT (a FERranti Mark I computer at the U of T), and installed it across the hall from his office. The Ferranti Mark I was the commercial offspring of the Manchester University stored-program computer project in which Alan Turing was a key participant, and it was appallingly difficult to program. Seeing this as a problem Pat and his colleague Trixie Worsley developed a system they named Transcode to make it easier for scientists to write programs for the new machine. Transcode was an immediate success and it and FERUT played a significant role in a number of important national projects, among them the development of the St. Lawrence Seaway. In December of 1955 Pat was part of a landmark experiment (along with Kelly Gotlieb) in using teletype machines to transmit research data to FERUT from the University of Saskatchewan and return results of the calculations back to Saskatoon. This has been recognized as the world\u2019s first long-distance use of a computer and was a momentous step forward toward the Internet age.\n\nIn 1964 Pat was one of the founding members of Toronto\u2019s Computer Science Department whose PhD grads have had a major impact on the development of computer science across the country. Pat served as Chair of the department from 1975 to 1980, as Associate Dean of Physical Sciences in the School of Graduate Studies from 1968 to 1972 and as Master of Massey College (succeeding Robertson Davies) from 1981 to 1988. He brought his sense of fun to everything he took on, from household chores, to his academic pursuits, to the yearly musical shows he\u2019d write, produce and perform in for the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto, where he served as president from 1976 to 1978. Throughout his career, and in many diverse forums, Pat was driven by a passion to make science more accessible to young Canadians.\n\nIn recognition of his many contributions Pat was made a member of the Order of Canada, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Fellow of the ACM. He also received the Silver Core Award from IFIP, a Distinguished Service Citation from the American Association of Physics Teachers, the Sandford Fleming Award from the Royal Canadian Institute and the Diamond Jubilee Medal. He and Donald Ivey received international recognition for programs they developed between 1958 and 1966 for The Nature of Things, including a medal from the Scientific Institute in Rome and the prestigious Edison Award for the best science education film of 1962. He was inducted into the Canadian Information Productivity Awards Hall of Fame in 2002.\n\nPat passed away in 2013 at the age of 90.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-23d0a4a e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"23d0a4a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-51f05b7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"51f05b7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation- text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_51f05b7_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#51f05b7_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/kelly_gotlieb.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10459\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/kelly_gotlieb.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/kelly_gotlieb-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/kelly_gotlieb-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_51f05b7_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tCalvin C. (Kelly) Gotlieb\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of Toronto\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-51f05b7\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_51f05b7_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/kelly_gotlieb.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10459\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/kelly_gotlieb.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/kelly_gotlieb-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/kelly_gotlieb-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Calvin C. (Kelly) Gotlieb<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThrough his vision, inspiration, and leadership, Gotlieb played a fundamental role in bringing Canadians into the modern age of computing. His efforts led to the formation of Departments of Computer Science in universities across the country. Gotlieb also had the vision to recognize that computers would have profound impacts on society, and that policies needed to be created to ameliorate the worst of these impacts. More than six decades later, Gotlieb\u2019s progressive ideas and revolutionary vision remain the foundation for today\u2019s computer technology. Here are some of Prof. Gotlieb\u2019s contributions.\n\nTechnology\nIn 1952, U of T acquired FERUT\u2014the 2nd electronic digital computer ever sold anywhere. Applications and demonstrations on this and later U of T computers done by Prof. Gotlieb had major influences in Canada: (1) \u201cFlutter calculations\u201d, involving the inversion of a 40\u00d740 matrix, were essential for the design of the Avro Arrow aircraft. (2) \u201cBackwater calculations\u201d for an all-Canadian St. Lawrence Seaway (simulating the flooding that would take place) proved that it was practical. These led the US Congress to change its position, and join Canada in the project. (3) A demonstration of a computerized airline reservation system (at which the President of Air Canada was present) led to the adoption in Canada of one of the first such systems. (4) Simulation of computer controlled traffic lights led to the adoption in Toronto of the first such system in the world. (5) The U of T library was a pioneer in digitizing its card catalogue, and the format it developed was later adopted by the US Library of Congress. (6) Simulation of machine reading of postal codes led to an early introduction of postal codes in Canada. (7) A well-attended course on Computers in Business, offered in the Extension Department for several years before there were academic credit courses, led to the widespread adoption of computers by the Canadian insurance industry.\n\nSocial Implications\nResearch on computerized databases led to Professor Gotlieb\u2019s appointment to a Task Force on Privacy for the Federal Governments Departments of Justice and Industry. The report led to the first Privacy Legislation in Canada. When the UN General Assembly instructed Secretary U Thant to produce a Report on the Application of Computer Technology to Development, six experts, including Professor Gotlieb from Canada, were chosen to write it. The resulting report is the best seller that UN had published to date. The Oxford Institute for the Internet is one of the world\u2019s best known organizations for studying the effects of computers on society. Its director, William Dutton, has indicated that reading the textbook \u201cSocial Implications of Computers\u201d by Professors Gotlieb and Borodin, (the first book on the topic) led to his choice of careers. Professor Gotlieb was Canadian Representative when IFIPS, the International Federation of Information Societies, was founded. He was the first chairman of TC9\u2014the Technical Committee on Computers and Society. He taught an undergraduate course on the subject for over 35 years.\n\nEducation\nWhen FERUT was installed in 1952, time on it was offered, without charge, to researchers at other Canadian universities. Several availed themselves of the opportunity, with the result that many of them became early adopters of computer technology. U of T offered the first credit courses in Canada on computers, and established the first graduate department in Computer Science in 1962. Gotlieb was instrumental in determining which parts of mathematics would be most useful for Computer Science and advised theses of the first Canadian CS graduate students.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9dc0f1d e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"9dc0f1d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-04ef7d9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"04ef7d9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_04ef7d9_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#04ef7d9_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/trixie_worsley.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10464\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/trixie_worsley.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/trixie_worsley-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/trixie_worsley-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_04ef7d9_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBeatrice H. (Trixie) Worsley\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">Queen\u2019s University\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-04ef7d9\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_04ef7d9_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/trixie_worsley.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10464\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/trixie_worsley.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/trixie_worsley-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/trixie_worsley-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Beatrice H. (Trixie) Worsley<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBeatrice (Trixie) Helen Worsley is recognized as a Canadian computer pioneer. She played an important role in establishing two of Canada\u2019s top Computer Science departments, at Queen\u2019s U. and at the U. of Toronto. She studied at MIT, where Vannevar Bush had recently designed the differential analyzer. Her 1947 Masters thesis from MIT was a comprehensive mathematical survey of computing devices with an appendix on error analysis of differential analyzers that confirmed and explained the experiences of analyzer users. It included a detailed comparison of the features of some of the first generation of computers (analog and digital) including Harvard\u2019s Mark I and II, the ENIAC, the EDVAC, MIT\u2019s Whirlwind I and II, and the University of Cambridge\u2019s EDSAC. Her work remains a fascinating account of the very first steps in the computer revolution. At Cambridge U., UK, she wrote what is certainly one of the first PhD dissertations involving modern computers. She participated in (and documented [Worsley, 1950]) the first demonstration of Cambridge\u2019s EDSAC computer. With Pat Hume, she developed the first compiler, Transcode, for FERUT (one of Canada\u2019s earliest computers, a computer Worsley is also said to have named) [Hume and Worsley, 1955]. This work had a dramatic impact across the country. By improving the programmability of the notoriously difficult FERUT, bug-free jobs could be developed and even submitted remotely, via mail or teletype. This enabled dozens of research groups from across Canada to use the FERUT to solve a wide-array of scientific problems. Worsley was a data scientist, publishing her careful and meticulous computational insights and solutions for a variety of deep scientific problems in physics, biology and mathematics journals. And this was long before the Harvard Business Review declared data scientist to be the \u201csexiest job of the 21st century\u201d. She accomplished all this and more in a very short, but admirable, career that was ended by a fatal heart attack at the age of 50 in 1972 while Professor Worsley was on her first sabbatical at the U. of Waterloo.\n\nEligibility\nInformation in this nomination is largely drawn from Scott M. Campbell\u2019s excellent biography \u201cBeatrice Helen Worsley: Canada\u2019s Female Computer Pioneer\u201d published in the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Oct-Dec 2003), p.51\u201362. The first Department of Computer Science in Canada was established in 1964, so due to Professor Worsley\u2019s untimely death in 1972, she was not a CS faculty member for 10 years. And it is important to remember that her amazing academic accomplishments were largely achieved before any official CS department existed in Canada rendering them all the more remarkable. Worsley did not have the benefits (and security) of a strong, internationally recognized Canadian CS academic community that we now take for granted.\n\nHer biographer Campbell, notes: \u201cAlthough she had a PhD from Cambridge, was a core member of the Computation Centre teaching staff with more publications than anyone else, and had been performing valuable research for the university for over a decade, it was not until 1960 that Worsley was promoted from Computation Centre mathematician to assistant professor of physics. Eventually, when the U. of Toronto created a graduate department of computer science in 1964, she was promoted to associate professor of physics and computer science. In comparison to other staff members, the lack of official recognition is conspicuous and is almost certainly because of her gender.\u201d\n\nHe also speculates that the discrimination was a reason for her leaving, in 1965, a faculty position for Queen\u2019s where there was not yet a CS dept. She was the computer science advisor at Queen\u2019s Centre of Computing. With Mers Kutt, she led the academic development of the Dept. of Computer and Information Science that was established in 1968, at which time she was immediately promoted to associate professor of the new department. Worsley was actually acting as CS faculty (with full teaching, research, academic service) for two decades even though she was not recognized as a \u201cprofessor\u201d for all of these years.\n\n[Worsley, 1950] Beatrice H. Worsley, \u201cThe EDSAC Demonstration\u201d, in Report of a Conference on High-Speed Automatic Calculating Machines, 22-25 June 1949, Cambridge University Mathematical Laboratory, 1950. Reprinted as pp. 415-429 of B. Randell, Origins of Digital Computers, Springer-Verlag, 1983.\n\n[Hume and Worsley, 1955] J. N. P. Hume, Beatrice H. Worsley. TRANSCODE, A System of Automatic Coding for FERUT Journal of the ACM (JACM). Volume 2 Issue 4, Oct. 1955. pp.\n243-252.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3cdcdf4 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"3cdcdf4\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7339389 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"7339389\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_7339389_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#7339389_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/allan_borodin.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10469\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/allan_borodin.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/allan_borodin-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/allan_borodin-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_7339389_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAllan B. Borodin\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of Toronto\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-7339389\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_7339389_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/allan_borodin.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10469\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/allan_borodin.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/allan_borodin-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/allan_borodin-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Allan B. Borodin<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tProfessor Borodin has had a long and distinguished research career in the mathematical foundations of computer science. He has had a huge impact on the field, making a wide variety of contributions with important connections to computer science in general. His central area of interest, computational complexity, addresses the basic issue of determining the minimum resources required to solve computational problems. In particular, he has made fundamental contributions to algebraic computations, resource tradeoffs, routing in computer networks, parallel algorithms, and online algorithms. He also initiated the field of adversarial queuing theory. Other areas of Professor Borodin\u2019s research that has wide-ranging impact include parallel computation and packet routing, adversarial queuing theory, and mathematical aspects of information retrieval.\n\n\nTeaching\n\nProfessor Borodin has made tremendous contributions to Canadian university education, designing novel courses in computational complexity theory, algebraic complexity, online algorithms, approximation algorithms, and randomized algorithms. He designed and taught (six times) a first-year undergraduate seminar course on \u201cGreat Ideas in Computing\u201d. This course has exposed students without a computer\/technical background to many of the ideas and concepts that have made computing pervasive. He has also recently designed a 2nd year Computer Science course \u201cSocial and Economic Networks Models and Applications\u201d which attracted students across the university, including social sciences, economics and computer science.\n\n\nGraduate Supervision\n\nHe has graduated 29 MSc students, and his 16 completed PhD students have gone on to successful careers at major universities and in industry, and two of them, Ian Munro and David Kirkpatrick, recently joined Borodin as Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada. Service and Leadership. Borodin joined the recently formed Computer Science Department in 1969, and was heavily involved in the growth of the department as it became one of the top ten departments in North America. He served as Department Chair from 1980 to 1985 and later he was called upon to serve as the Acting Chair in 1992-93 during a crisis concerning the health of the Chair at that time. Since then he has played a senior advisory role in the department, as well as chairing many important departmental committees. One of Borodin\u2019s most recent roles involved creating (with Greg Wilson) a highly innovative Professional Masters program (the MScAC program) that welcomed its first students in Fall \u201910.\n\n\nRecognition\n\nBorodin has been appointed University Professor in 2011. 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\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Peter Chen<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDr. Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen is a leading expert in software engineering, particularly renowned for his contributions to improving DevOps practices in large-scale systems for better software quality assurance. In particular, his research primarily focuses on leveraging and improving software runtime data (i.e., logs) to diagnose the root causes of production failures and improve testing practices.\nDr. Chen's academic achievements are substantial, with over 50 peer-reviewed publications in prestigious venues, including IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), and the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). His work has received wide recognition from both academia and industry. He innovatively combined software logs, code change history, and source code to diagnose product issues, which allowed developers to address issues promptly and significantly reduce negative impacts.\nThe practical implications of Dr. Chen's research are significant, as evidenced by its application and validation in collaborations with major companies like Microsoft, BlackBerry, Ericsson, RedHat, and ERA Environmental. His advanced methods for log analysis and fault localization have been instrumental in enhancing the quality assurance of numerous systems and sparked interest from leading companies like Splunk. This real-world impact is complemented by his academic recognition, with his papers published in flagship venues such as TSE, FSE, and ICSE. 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He also holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair and is a core faculty member of the Mila Quebec AI Institute. His research passionately delves into the intersection of computer science (Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning) and linguistics, investigating the intricate relationship between human language processing and computational models of language. His work is guided by four key themes: (i) learning representations of language that facilitate efficient reasoning, (ii) building computational models that closely emulate human-human interaction, (iii) developing aligned and safe AI that avoids producing stereotypically biased and harmful information, and (iv) pioneering multi-modal computational systems adept at integrating information from text and vision. His work is published extensively in prestigious venues such as ACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR, and his impact on the field is growing. 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His research has focused on understanding and improving neural networks and Bayesian machine learning methods, and more recently, on the long-term safety of artificial intelligence. He spent a year and a half as a researcher at Anthropic, where he developed scalable techniques for attributing large language models\u2019 behaviors to their training data. He holds a Sloan Fellowship, Canada Research Chair, and Canada CIFAR AI Chair.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"ekit-team-social-list\">\n\t\t\t<li class=\"elementor-repeater-item-b37fad5\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~rgrosse\/\" aria-label=\"Website\">\n\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-globe\" viewBox=\"0 0 496 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M336.5 160C322 70.7 287.8 8 248 8s-74 62.7-88.5 152h177zM152 256c0 22.2 1.2 43.5 3.3 64h185.3c2.1-20.5 3.3-41.8 3.3-64s-1.2-43.5-3.3-64H155.3c-2.1 20.5-3.3 41.8-3.3 64zm324.7-96c-28.6-67.9-86.5-120.4-158-141.6 24.4 33.8 41.2 84.7 50 141.6h108zM177.2 18.4C105.8 39.6 47.8 92.1 19.3 160h108c8.7-56.9 25.5-107.8 49.9-141.6zM487.4 192H372.7c2.1 21 3.3 42.5 3.3 64s-1.2 43-3.3 64h114.6c5.5-20.5 8.6-41.8 8.6-64s-3.1-43.5-8.5-64zM120 256c0-21.5 1.2-43 3.3-64H8.6C3.2 212.5 0 233.8 0 256s3.2 43.5 8.6 64h114.6c-2-21-3.2-42.5-3.2-64zm39.5 96c14.5 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His research focuses on bridging the gap between traditional model-based and recent learning-based approaches to robotics algorithm development. Specifically, he focuses on research questions related to the quantification of uncertainty, learning of perceptual representations, and leveraging simulation as a tool for robot learning. 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He has developed pioneering work in the area of software refactoring, software maintenance and evolution, software quality, and empirical software engineering. His research is centered around the use of advanced artificial intelligence and data analytics techniques to address several problems in software engineering involving software products, processes, and stakeholders. He published over 140 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, many of which appear in the most prestigious software engineering venues. His Google Scholar citation record is currently over 6,000 with an h-index of 40, placing him among the most productive and highly cited software engineering scholars of his generation world-wide. Dr. Ouni\u2019s research work has received several prestigious international awards including the 10-year Most Influential Paper Award (MIP), and 8 Best\/Distinguished Paper Awards in high-impact software engineering conferences. Dr. Ouni was also ranked among the Most Impactful and Most Active Early Career Software Engineering Researchers in top quality journals worldwide, according to a recent bibliometric assessment of Software Engineering scholars and institutions. Many of the techniques he developed has been done in collaboration with and\/or adopted by several world\u2019s largest IT companies such as Xerox, JetBrains, and eBay. \n\nDr. Ouni is also an outstanding researcher, mentor, and teacher. He was the recipient of the Early Career Research Excellence Award from the University of Quebec in 2023, the Emerging Researcher Excellence Award from \u00c9TS Montreal in 2021, and the Excellence Award for his PhD thesis from the University of Montreal in 2014. \n\nHe is emerging as a leader in the international software engineering research community. He regularly serves as PC member and\/or co-chair of different tracks in leading software engineering conferences, and as an associate editor, guest editor and reviewer in several high-impact software engineering journals. He is often invited to give keynotes, talks and tutorials in leading conferences. 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Her research focuses on empowering users of all backgrounds and skill levels to use, learn, and build emerging technologies. Her interdisciplinary contributions include user-centered help systems that improve interaction with feature-rich software and insights on user diversity from various lab and field-based evaluations. Dr. Chilana has been awarded multiple Best Paper and Honorable Mention awards at top HCI venues such as ACM CHI, and an NSERC Accelerator Supplement. During her PhD at the University of Washington, she received the inaugural Meta (Facebook) Ph.D. Fellowship and co-founded AnswerDash, a venture-funded startup that commercialized her award-winning dissertation on contextual help and was later acquired by CloudEngage in 2020.\n\nDr. Chilana is a leader in the HCI field and often serves on major program and organizing committees. She is known for her mentorship and her commitment to making computer science education and academic opportunities more accessible for women and minorities. She co-founded and currently co-directs SFU\u2019s Visual and Interactive Computing Institute (VINCI), which brings together a unique interdisciplinary team of faculty focused on the human aspects of technology design.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4679473 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"4679473\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9324ecf elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"9324ecf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 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Alec\u2019s world-leading research on shape deformations, robust mesh tetrahedralization, and deep learning functions has had a profound impact on such diverse fields as architecture, structural engineering, and theater. He has published over 40 papers in the very top venues in computer graphics (ACM TOG\/SIGGRAPH), computer vision (CVPR), human-computer interaction (ACM SIGCHI), and machine learning (NeurIPS), including several landmark SIGGRAPH papers. In addition to his exceptional research accomplishments, Alec has an outstanding track record as a scientific leader; among other things, he served as technical program co-chair for the 2020 Symposium on Geometry Processing and is currently an Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Graphics, the premier computer graphics journal. He also led the development of libigl, a geometry processing library that is widely used in both academia and industry, and founded the virally successful Toronto Geometry Colloquium, a web series on geometry processing. 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https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Weiyi-Ian-Shang-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Weiyi (Ian) Shang<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDr. Weiyi Shang is a world-class expert in quality assurance of ultra-large-scale systems (ULSS), which are large cloud-based systems of Amazon- or Google-scale used by millions of people. In particular, he focuses on scalable performance testing of ULSS, and on effective engineering practices of run-time logs (to understand the ULSS\u2019 run-time behavior).\n\nApart from Weiyi\u2019s sheer volume and quality of publications on these topics (80 peer-reviewed publications, including 44 top-tier ones), what stands out is his focus on the software engineering aspects of performance testing and log engineering of ULSS. He aims at bringing the benefits of performance testing into the hands of every organization, at reduced cost. Similarly, he identifies and evaluates the impact of log engineering practices, enabling developers to put the right log-generating statements in the right place in the code.\n\nDue to the relevance of this work to practitioners, Weiyi\u2019s research results have been validated and deployed at major companies, including Blackberry, Ericsson, Alibaba and ERA Environmental. At the same time, two of his papers obtained ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper awards at the flagship International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), which illustrates the academic quality of his research.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-51ccd7b6 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"51ccd7b6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7571d6b1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"7571d6b1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 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https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Francois-Pomerleau-circle-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_7571d6b1_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFran\u00e7ois Pomerleau\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">Universit\u00e9 Laval<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-7571d6b1\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_7571d6b1_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div 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Universit\u00e9 Laval since 2017, senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and member of the Order of Engineering of Quebec (OIQ).\n\nHe made his debut in research by interacting with the Canadian Space Agency and the European Space Agency during his studies in computer engineering at Universit\u00e9 de Sherbrooke. He got his master\u2019s degree from this university in 2009 after a one-year stay as a research engineer at EPFL (Switzerland), where he worked on an early autonomous car prototype. He completed his Ph.D. at ETH Zurich (Switzerland) in 2013 during which he participated in several robotic deployments in uncontrolled environments, including work with European fire brigades and in alpine lakes. After technology transfer activities at Alstom Inspection Robotics and a stay at Laval University, he received a postdoctoral fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to continue his research at the University of Toronto in mobile robotics. His research addresses robotics, more specifically the fields of computer vision, optimization, and 3D geometry.\n\nMajor research contributions include highly cited papers on 3D registration and a point-cloud processing library cloned more than 300 times per month. In terms of technological transfers, his research was deployed by multiple organisms around the world such as NASA Ames, ANYbotics AG, General Dynamics, and Defence Research and Development Canada to name a few. He won multiple prices at the international including three best-paper awards and was awarded at the prestigious Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Subterranean Challenge.\n\nHis long-term goal is to push the boundary of where and when autonomous vehicles will be used effectively and safely.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-571fda3d e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"571fda3d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-16718135 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"16718135\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div 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class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAshton Anderson is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, where he is also a Faculty Affiliate with the Vector Institute and the Schwartz-Reisman Institute for Technology and Society. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 2015 and completed a postdoctoral appointment at Microsoft Research\n\nNYC in 2017. His research in computational social science encompasses a diverse range of questions at the intersection of artificial intelligence, data, and society. He has pioneered computational methods to quantify online phenomena including political polarization, and has developed human-centered machine learning systems. His work has appeared in venues including Nature, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and the International Conference on Machine Learning, and has been covered in Science, The Economist, and Wired. He received a best paper runner-up award at WWW 2014, was invited to the 2016 TKDD Special Issue of Best Papers of KDD 2016, and won the 2012\u20132015 Google PhD Fellowship in Social Computing.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"e-n-tab-content-17851136605\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-17851136605\" data-tab-index=\"5\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 5;\" class=\" elementor-element elementor-element-38706d5 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"38706d5\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5cccf371 e-grid e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"5cccf371\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div 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https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Jiannan-Wang-OECRA.jpg 1085w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_566ed192_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJiannan Wang\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">Simon Fraser University\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-566ed192\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_566ed192_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog 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\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Jiannan Wang<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDr. Jiannan Wang has established himself as an intellectual leader in database systems research. In particular, he has made significant research contributions to crowdsourced data management, data cleaning, and human-in-the-loop data analytics, which won him the prestigious IEEE TCDE Rising Star Award in 2018. His CrowdER project is the pioneering work in crowdsourced entity resolution. The project was highly influential in the database community and the two CrowdER papers have received over 750 citations in total. His SampleClean project proposes several innovative ideas that can significantly reduce the data-cleaning costs for query processing and machine learning. The project was incorporated as an open-source software component in the Berkeley Data Analytics Stack, one of the world\u2019s most popular big data stack at that time. He developed the fastest similarity-join algorithm, which has become an essential operator in data preparation systems. Since joining SFU, Dr. Wang has illustrated his remarkable independence in initiating and executing an ambitious research agenda to speed up data science. He was awarded a large MITACS Accelerate grant of $990K as the sole PI to support this research program, and developed several open-source tools (e.g., DataPrep, Deeper, AQP++), which have already been deployed at several companies or used by tens of thousands of users. He is serving as the Program Director of the Professional Master\u2019s Program in Big Data, Visual Computing, and Cybersecurity at SFU. He helped to design two popular Big Data lab courses for the program and has trained over 300 Big Data master\u2019s students in the past five years. Many of the students are now working as data scientists or data engineers in Canada, helping to close Canada\u2019s Big Data talent gap.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3f157b55 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"3f157b55\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1a12dc1d elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"1a12dc1d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink 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Within her research, Dr. Orji investigates how to design and evaluate technological interventions such as games and apps to promote social wellness and good. Her research and advocacy in this area has led her to be recognized as one of the top 150 Canadian women in STEM; Top 60 African Women in STEM; Top 80 Women and Non-Binary People in Canada Tech; and a Canada Top 100 Black Women. Her transformative work on Personalizing Persuasive Systems is often covered by the media and Dr. Orji can regularly be found giving presentations and keynotes nationally and internationally. She is particularly passionate about designing technologies to tackle issues faced by under-served populations.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-18df0f1d e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"18df0f1d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-27cb6138 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"27cb6138\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_27cb6138_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#27cb6138_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1085\" height=\"1085\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Meiyappan-Nagappan-OECRA.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10073\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Meiyappan-Nagappan-OECRA.jpg 1085w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Meiyappan-Nagappan-OECRA-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Meiyappan-Nagappan-OECRA-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Meiyappan-Nagappan-OECRA-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1085px) 100vw, 1085px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_27cb6138_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMeiyappan Nagappan\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of Waterloo\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-27cb6138\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_27cb6138_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1085\" height=\"1085\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Meiyappan-Nagappan-OECRA.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10073\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Meiyappan-Nagappan-OECRA.jpg 1085w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Meiyappan-Nagappan-OECRA-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Meiyappan-Nagappan-OECRA-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Meiyappan-Nagappan-OECRA-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1085px) 100vw, 1085px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Meiyappan Nagappan<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMeiyappan (Mei) Nagappan is an Associate Professor and the current Ross and Muriel Cheriton Faculty Fellow in the David R. 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Dr. Nagappan has published more than 50 blind peer-reviewed journal and conference papers including in top SE venues such as IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), the ACM\/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), the ACM Conference on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), the Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), the ACM\/IEEE International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), and IEEE Software; he has an H-Index of 32 and almost 3000 citations since 2015 according to Google Scholar. He received an ACM Distinguished Paper Award (2015), a Best Paper Award (2012), and the Early Career Achievement Award (2018) at the ACM\/IEEE International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR). Dr. Nagappan is currently an associate editor for three of the top journals in software engineering: TSE, EMSE, JSS, and the PC Co-Chair of MSR 2021, QRS 2020, and PROMISE 2020. He was the inaugural editor of the IEEE Software Blog, where more than 100 posts were curated with over 200,000 views in aggregate.\n\nMore information is available at http:\/\/mei-nagappan.com \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-717a45ae e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"717a45ae\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7e807292 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"7e807292\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> 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https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Zhen-Ming-Jack-Jiang-OECRA-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Zhen-Ming-Jack-Jiang-OECRA-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Zhen-Ming-Jack-Jiang-OECRA-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Zhen-Ming-Jack-Jiang-OECRA-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Zhen-Ming-Jack-Jiang-OECRA.jpg 1085w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_7e807292_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tZhen Ming (Jack) Jiang\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p 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His career has encompassed accomplishments at BlackBerry (RIM) and now is an associate professor in the department of electrical engineering and computer science at the Lassonde School of Engineering at York University. He is a leading researcher in the areas of load testing, software performance engineering, and log and logging code analysis. Many of the techniques that he has developed are widely adopted by leading IT companies such as BlackBerry, Alibaba and Baidu. His work has been recognized with five best paper awards: (1) the Best Paper Award at ICST 2016, (2) 2015 IEEE Software Best Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP) paper award at ICSE 2015, (3) ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ICSE 2013, (4) Best Paper Award at WCRE 2011, and (5) Best Challenge Paper Award at MSR 2009. He has published over 60 full length journal and conference papers, many of which appear in the top tier software engineering venues (e.g., ICSE, FSE, ASE, TSE, and TOSEM). He co-founded and created the research community around Load Testing and Benchmarking software systems (LTB) and has organized over 10 different international research workshops\/conferences. He received an NSERC Accelerator Supplement due to his research contributions and is a senior member of the IEEE.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"e-n-tab-content-17851136606\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-17851136606\" data-tab-index=\"6\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 6;\" class=\" elementor-element elementor-element-2a0a5815 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"2a0a5815\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-32ec374 e-grid e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"32ec374\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-57e2d1ba 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class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Audrey Girouard<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDr. Audrey Girouard is an outstanding researcher in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI). She leads a multidisciplinary research team that considers how people use tangible devices and technologies, understands their applications, and studies their social acceptability. She is a pioneer of deformable user interfaces, in which she considers general applications and those focused on accessibility. Her work is published at the top venues in HCI, including ACM CHI, ACM UIST and ACM TEI, and has been picked up broadly by her peers. Her h-index is 22 and she has over 2400 citations to her work.\n\nDr. Girouard has secured over $4 million in research funding over the past 5 years. She leads an NSERC CREATE training program (CLUE) and is an investigator on another program. She received an NSERC Accelerator Supplement, given only to the most promising researchers.\n\nHer record of training is exceptional: with 87 undergraduates, 19 master\u2019s students, five Ph.D. students, two PDFs, and four RAs trained or being trained, her trainees are also extensively published and have graduated with great outcomes. Her record of training is so strong that she received the Carleton Outstanding Faculty Graduate Mentor Award in 2020, a remarkable achievement for an associate professor.\n\nFinally, Dr. Girouard engages extensively in outreach to schools and with the media, serving an essential role in changing the public perception of women, particularly those with children, into international research leaders, inventors, professors, and experts in technology.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-42103528 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"42103528\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-290c9b22 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"290c9b22\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_290c9b22_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#290c9b22_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Florian-Kerschbaum-cropped.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10168\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Florian-Kerschbaum-cropped.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Florian-Kerschbaum-cropped-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Florian-Kerschbaum-cropped-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_290c9b22_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFlorian Kerschbaum\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of Waterloo\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-290c9b22\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_290c9b22_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Florian-Kerschbaum-cropped.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10168\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Florian-Kerschbaum-cropped.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Florian-Kerschbaum-cropped-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Florian-Kerschbaum-cropped-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Florian Kerschbaum<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\nHow do you protect your data while still using it? Florian Kerschbaum\u2019s research develops methods to protect data, yet still allow it to be processed efficiently. For example, when you store your data in a database in the cloud, you want it encrypted, but also searchable, able to do joins, or aggregable over groups. Florian Kerschbaum\u2019s research enabled these and other applications that process data in encrypted form.\n\nHis contributions range from encryption schemes enabling such complex queries on encrypted data, over foundational techniques for optimized compilation of secure computation, to applications such as privacy in the smart grid. His research has been applied in products that ship worldwide. He has consistently published in leading academic venues and his students have won international awards such as the ACM SIGSAC dissertation award.\n\nFor his achievements he was designated as the NSERC\/RBC chair in data security, was recognized an ACM Distinguished Scientist, and serves as the inaugural Director of the Waterloo Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-63d27d3f e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"63d27d3f\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-611e1287 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"611e1287\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_611e1287_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#611e1287_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Foutse-Khomh-cropped.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10179\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Foutse-Khomh-cropped.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Foutse-Khomh-cropped-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Foutse-Khomh-cropped-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_611e1287_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFoutse Khomh\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">Polytechnique Montr\u00e9al<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-611e1287\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_611e1287_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Foutse-Khomh-cropped.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10179\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Foutse-Khomh-cropped.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Foutse-Khomh-cropped-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Foutse-Khomh-cropped-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Foutse Khomh<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tProfessor Khomh has developed pioneering work in the area of software maintenance and evolution. In particular, he has produced breakthrough research on the impact of developers\u2019 design decisions on software quality. For example, his research work on the impact of design patterns and design anti-patterns on the quality of software systems has been cited more than 1,932 times according to Google scholar. His research has had a profound impact on his students, his department, his University, and the international community. He has written more than 150 refereed research papers that have been cited more than 3604 times.\n\nProfessor Khomh\u2019s work has received three ten-year Most Influential Paper (MIP) Awards, five Best\/Distinguished paper Awards, and more than fifteen nominations for Best Paper Awards. His Google Scholar h-index is 30 and his i10-index is 68, which puts him among the most highly cited software engineering researchers of his generation. A recent bibliometric assessment of Software Engineering scholars has ranked him 2nd in the world and 1st in Canada, in the category Most Active Early Stage Researchers. His research has drawn exceptional support, and to date he has received over $2.5 million in research funding from diverse sources, including NSERC Discovery, the NSERC Discovery Supplement Award, NSERC Engage, NSERC Collaborative Research and Development, FRQ-IVADO Research Chairs, and Mitacs.\n\nProfessor Khomh is also a great mentor and teacher. In 2016 he was recognized with the Best Graduate Teaching Award by Polytechnique Montreal. He has supervised or co-supervised seven PhD students, eleven MSc students, and ten undergraduate students. Three of his PhD students were nominated for the Best PhD Thesis Award of Polytechnique Montr\u00e9al and one of them won the prize of Best Computer Science and Software Engineering PhD Thesis of Polytechnique Montr\u00e9al.\n\nProfessor Khomh serves on the program committees and editorial boards of several international conferences and top international journals in software engineering and has received Distinguished Reviewer Awards from conferences, including WCRE, and journals, including TOSEM. He is program chair for Satellite Events at SANER 2015, program co-chair of SCAM 2015, ICSME 2018, PROMISE 2019, and ICPC 2019, and general chair of SCAM 2020, SANER 2020, and ICPC 2018. He is on the steering committee of SANER, ICPC (chair), PROMISE, MSR, and ICSME (vice-chair).\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1b35415a e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"1b35415a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2809ab2a elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"2809ab2a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_2809ab2a_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#2809ab2a_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Emad-Shihab-cropped.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10190\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Emad-Shihab-cropped.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Emad-Shihab-cropped-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Emad-Shihab-cropped-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_2809ab2a_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tEmad Shihab\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">Concordia University<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-2809ab2a\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_2809ab2a_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Emad-Shihab-cropped.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10190\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Emad-Shihab-cropped.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Emad-Shihab-cropped-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Emad-Shihab-cropped-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Emad Shihab<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDr. Shihab is an internationally recognized leader in software engineering, specializing in mining software repositories to improve software quality. He publishes in software engineering\u2019s most prestigious venues, and pioneered several subareas of software engineering, including mobile apps, self-admitted technical debt and bots in software engineering.\n\nDr. Shihab\u2019s highly cited work has made a profound impact on practice. Tools and techniques based on his research are used today by some of the world\u2019s largest organizations.\n\nDr. Shihab\u2019s fundamental contributions earned him a number of prestigious awards, including the MSR Early Career Award and elevation to IEEE Senior membership.\n\nDr. Shihab is a dedicated teacher and mentor whose trainees have received highly competitive research positions and secured positions in prestigious companies\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"e-n-tab-content-17851136607\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-17851136607\" data-tab-index=\"7\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 7;\" class=\" elementor-element elementor-element-64e0f3f7 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"64e0f3f7\" 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Pointing, gazing, clicking, sliding, swiping are all possibilities, as well as many more \u2013 but what technique is better, and under what circumstances? Professor Daniel Vogel\u2019s research improves ways in which users interact with devices ranging from large display screens to digital pens to mobile phones, in a subdiscipline of computer science known as human-computer interaction. Beyond numerous publications in the most prestigious venues in this research area, Professor Vogel\u2019s work has achieved tremendous real-world impact \u2013 if you\u2019ve selected text on a mobile phone, you\u2019ve likely encountered his work. By combining training in both Fine Arts and Computer Science, Professor Vogel ensures that his designs are not only functional, usable, but also beautiful.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2f673051 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"2f673051\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-40876de0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"40876de0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card 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https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Chanchal-Roy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Chanchal-Roy-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_40876de0_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tChanchal Roy\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of Saskatchewan<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-40876de0\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_40876de0_9770\" 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loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Chanchal-Roy.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10484\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Chanchal-Roy.jpg 700w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Chanchal-Roy-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Chanchal-Roy-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Chanchal-Roy-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Chanchal-Roy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Chanchal-Roy-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Chanchal Roy<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p 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In particular, he has produced breakthrough research in software clone detection, analysis and management, with particular emphasis on large gapped clone detection in ultra large software repositories. His work has had a substantial impact on the cloning community.\n\nDr. Roy has been also conducting breakthrough research in other areas of software engineering, including but not limited to building recommender systems (e.g., context-sensitive code completion, reviewer recommendation systems, experts recommendation systems), software quality, mining software repositories, empirical software engineering, crowdsourcing, Big Data analytics in the cloud for plant phenotyping, and Big Data frameworks and analysis systems for water security.\n\nHis research has had a profound impact on his students, his department, his university, and the international community.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6ef2a2ec e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" 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Dr. Bunt\u2019s impressive list of top-tier publications illustrates her extensive contributions to knowledge, and the community has widely recognized the influence of her research, with her being invited onto influential committees, receiving best-paper awards and highly competitive research grants, and a growing body of research building on her results. The impact of Dr. Bunt\u2019s work includes helping beginners and experts alike be more effective with complex software, helping children and parents work together to configure and safely use connected devices, and proposing solutions that enable rural Canadian business owners leverage the Internet despite poor network connectivity.\n\nDr. Bunt has inspired many students through her dedicated teaching and supervision, with many receiving prestigious scholarships, company appointments, and themselves becoming successful researchers.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"e-n-tab-content-17851136608\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-17851136608\" data-tab-index=\"8\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 8;\" class=\" 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https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bernhard-Thomaszewski-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bernhard-Thomaszewski-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bernhard-Thomaszewski-1-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_2a587dd7_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBernhard Thomaszewski\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> 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768w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bernhard-Thomaszewski-1-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Bernhard Thomaszewski<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDr. Bernhard Thomaszewski is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the University of Montreal. Before joining the University of Montreal, Bernhard was heading the research group on Computational Materials at Disney Research Zurich. After receiving his PhD (2010) and MSc (2005) from the University of Tuebingen (Germany), he was a post-doctoral Researcher at ETH Zurich (Switzerland), where he also held an adjunct lecturer position until 2016.\n\nBernhard conducts research in computational design for digital fabrication, an emerging field at the intersection of computer graphics, computational mechanics, constraint optimization, material sciences, and human computer interaction. His works capitalizes on computation to create powerful and intuitive design tools for applications as varied as custom mechanisms, physical surfaces, and 3D-printed meta-materials.\n\nAs one of the leading graphics researchers in fabrication-oriented design, he has published 19 articles in the field\u2019s most selective and impactful journal ACM Transactions on Graphics, and is named inventor on 10 patents. Bernhard has served repeatedly on all major conference program committees in the field and was most recently programme co-chair of the ACM\/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2017.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c5149b6 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"c5149b6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-376f99d6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"376f99d6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_376f99d6_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#376f99d6_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"224\" height=\"224\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Yasutaka-Furukawa.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10505\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Yasutaka-Furukawa.jpg 224w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Yasutaka-Furukawa-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Yasutaka-Furukawa-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_376f99d6_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tYasutaka Furukawa\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">Simon Fraser University\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-376f99d6\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_376f99d6_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"224\" height=\"224\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Yasutaka-Furukawa.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10505\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Yasutaka-Furukawa.jpg 224w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Yasutaka-Furukawa-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Yasutaka-Furukawa-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Yasutaka Furukawa<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYasutaka is an Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University. His research covers a wide range of problems in 3D computer vision and he is considered an international authority in this field. His papers have been cited more than 6,000 times, h-index of 25. His work bridges from highly accurate algorithms for core computer vision problems through to fundamental important new directions for the field. Representative work includes his highly accurate multi-view stereo algorithm (CVPR 2007), which bridged into award winning work on reconstruction of outdoor scenes and museums (ECCV 2012, CVPR 2014, ICCV 2015, Communications of the ACM 2011). His work has resulted in successful patents and open source software. The software has been used in numerous academic and industrial settings, including visual effect companies (e.g., Industrial Light and Magic and Weta digital) for real film production, and Google for Google Maps products. He won the Best Student Paper Award at ECCV 2012, Google Research Excellent Paper Award in 2012, Best Paper Award at 3DV 2013, NSF CAREER Award in 2015, and Google Faculty Research Award in 2016. He is on the editorial board of the top journal in computer vision (IJCV), and area chair multiple times at the two top conferences in the field (CVPR and ICCV). Before joining Simon Fraser University, he was an Assistant Professor at Washington University St. Louis, was a software engineer at Google, and a research associate at the University of Washington. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2008 and a Bachelor\u2019s degree from the University of Tokyo in 2001.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-75ed2100 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"75ed2100\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5a5430f8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"5a5430f8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card 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His research takes a human-centric approach to examining software programs. Two primary themes in his research have been helping software developers focus on their most cognitively demanding tasks, and asking and answering fundamental questions about software testing. The research methods he employs span from conducting empirical studies of industrial software developers as a way to understand and characterize the problems they face, to building tools that can be applied at scale to address those problems. He and his research team have received four distinguished paper awards and the results of his research have been applied within large software development companies. Dr. Holmes is truly a creative and productive researcher who is emerging as a leader in the international software engineering research community.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"e-n-tab-content-17851136609\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-17851136609\" data-tab-index=\"9\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 9;\" class=\" elementor-element elementor-element-6e977641 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"6e977641\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7966ecd4 e-grid e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"7966ecd4\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div 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https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/nick_harvey-1200x1200-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_644453d4_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tNick Harvey\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">The University of British Columbia<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-644453d4\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_644453d4_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div 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src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/nick_harvey-1200x1200-1-1024x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10520\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/nick_harvey-1200x1200-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/nick_harvey-1200x1200-1-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/nick_harvey-1200x1200-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/nick_harvey-1200x1200-1-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/nick_harvey-1200x1200-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/nick_harvey-1200x1200-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/nick_harvey-1200x1200-1-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/nick_harvey-1200x1200-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 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Nick has also made significant contributions in other computer science disciplines, namely learning theory and computer systems. His work has been published in the top computer science conferences and has also had major impact on industry products. He has co-organized several high-profile workshops in his areas of expertise, enabling others to learn about cutting-edge theoretical research. He has also served on numerous conference program committees. Nick is an outstanding teacher and research advisor, and a highly sought-after invited speaker. He holds a Canada Research Chair and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, awarded to \u201cearly-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise\u201d.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5cb2fad9 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"5cb2fad9\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-70f8ccf5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"70f8ccf5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center 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His main research interests are in using natural language processing to understand software code and in managing energy consumption of software artifacts. The impact of his research in the former area can be well exemplified by his invited research highlight article published in Communications of the ACM last year. Within the latter area one can cite the coveted ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award given at last year\u2019s International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) as clear evidence of this research impact. Dr. Hindle is also an excellent teacher, having been recognized multiple times by the University of Alberta\u2019s Faculty of Science. He is an avid participant in and contributor to many special interest groups related to computing science in Edmonton, and, in terms of scientific service, Dr. Hindle has been performing well above average for his rank, for instance, besides often being a PC member for the top Software Engineering conferences, he will be the co-PC Chair for the upcoming 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, a clear recognition of his scientific stature among his peers.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-478d87ab e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"478d87ab\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-14c0b40b elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"14c0b40b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_14c0b40b_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#14c0b40b_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"226\" height=\"226\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Lap-Chi-Lau.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10531\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Lap-Chi-Lau.png 226w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Lap-Chi-Lau-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Lap-Chi-Lau-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_14c0b40b_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLap Chi Lau\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of Waterloo <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-14c0b40b\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_14c0b40b_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"226\" height=\"226\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Lap-Chi-Lau.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10531\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Lap-Chi-Lau.png 226w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Lap-Chi-Lau-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Lap-Chi-Lau-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Lap Chi Lau<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLap Chi is already an international leader in his field of combinatorial optimization and theoretical computer science, which is an exceptional accomplishment for someone so early in his career. He is known for a growing number of research innovations that have resulted in fundamental new results in algorithms and complexity. Lap Chi obtained his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 2006 under the supervision of Michael Molloy. He then accepted a faculty position at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and joined the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo in 2015. Lap Chi\u2019s research spans the areas of theoretical computer science and combinatorial optimization. He is particularly known for results on approximation algorithms, spectral graph theory, and on the use of algebraic techniques for network optimization. His PhD work won the best student paper award at FOCS, the NSERC Doctoral Prize and the Canadian Math Society Doctoral Prize. Lap Chi is not only an outstanding researcher, but also an exceptional teacher. As a faculty member at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, he won the best teaching award three times and has already been a major force in the CS curriculum at Waterloo.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"e-n-tab-content-178511366010\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-178511366010\" data-tab-index=\"10\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 10;\" class=\" elementor-element elementor-element-14d50895 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"14d50895\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3dc2a7ab e-grid e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"3dc2a7ab\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div 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Kate is an outstanding researcher and in recognition of this Kate recently was awarded a prestigious Province of Ontario Early Researcher Award. To get a flavor of her research, consider the following (the work was done in collaboration with Georgia Kastidou and Robin Cohen). In e-commerce and online communities such as Amazon.com and TripAdvisor.com, a very useful feature is the ratings and recommendations of other participants. Over time, participants build up reputations within an online community for being more or less reliable. But a problem is that a reputation for reliability or usefulness in one community, such as Amazon.com, cannot be transferred to another community, such as TripAdvisor.com. Kate\u2019s research addresses this problem by proposing a framework so that communities can exchange reputation information. A notable property of the framework is that honesty really is the best policy in this framework. Using Kate\u2019s proposed framework, each online community is strengthened and benefited and individual participants themselves have an incentive to be better community citizens. Kate is also remarkable for her service orientation and her commitment to giving back to her community. Of particular note are her positions of leadership in the scientific community\u2014she is currently president of IFAAMAS, the community of multi-agent researchers, and a Councilor for AAAI, the association of artificial intelligence researchers\u2014and her work on outreach. In outreach, Kate has been active in organizing and speaking at events for female high school and university students to help ensure that young women see computer science as a career option. In summary, Kate combines excellence as a researcher with leadership in the scientific community and a commitment to the wider discipline of computer science.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3e1acdaf e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"3e1acdaf\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1f0231fd elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"1f0231fd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_1f0231fd_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#1f0231fd_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/zongpeng_li_final.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10546\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/zongpeng_li_final.jpg 270w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/zongpeng_li_final-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/zongpeng_li_final-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_1f0231fd_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tZongpeng Li\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of Calgary\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-1f0231fd\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_1f0231fd_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/zongpeng_li_final.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10546\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/zongpeng_li_final.jpg 270w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/zongpeng_li_final-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/zongpeng_li_final-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Zongpeng Li<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDr. Zongpeng Li is a world-leading expert in Network Coding, which is a relatively recent innovation (about 15 years old) in theoretical networking research. Network coding combines ideas from Information Theory with those from Computer Science and Computer Networks. A primary focus is on determining the maximum possible throughput that is possible for information flows across general data networks. Unlike current networks, where nodes simply forward data packets passively towards their destination, network coding allows data flows to be actively sliced, diced, and mixed at arbitrary nodes within the network. With proper design, this approach can exploit multiple parallel data pathways to increase the end-to-end information-carrying capacity of the network. Zongpeng has contributed enormously to the theoretical underpinnings of network coding research, including fundamental results that highlight both its strengths and limitations. His work has broad applicability to the design of next-generation information networks, particularly for supporting big data transfers using state-of-the-art communication technologies.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1ae87d5c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"1ae87d5c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-782b66a7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"782b66a7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_782b66a7_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#782b66a7_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/regan_mandryk_final.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10551\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/regan_mandryk_final.jpg 270w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/regan_mandryk_final-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/regan_mandryk_final-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_782b66a7_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRegan Mandryk\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of Saskatchewan\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-782b66a7\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_782b66a7_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/regan_mandryk_final.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10551\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/regan_mandryk_final.jpg 270w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/regan_mandryk_final-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/regan_mandryk_final-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Regan Mandryk<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDr. Regan Mandryk is one of Canada\u2019s top researchers in Human-Computer Interaction, particularly in the areas of game research and affective computing. She is an extremely productive scholar with more than 100 publications, and both she and her work have received numerous awards. Dr. Mandryk and her students have made several important contributions to knowledge, all of which have had substantial impact on the research community. For example, Dr. Mandryk developed the first models of emotional response in computer games, which enable games to adapt themselves to the player\u2019s emotional state; she invented new techniques for player balancing that allow people of widely different skill levels to play together in competitive games; and she developed new techniques for persuasive computing that have been applied in a range of systems \u2013 from helping people make healthy food choices, to helping children with FASD improve their ability to concentrate. Dr. Mandryk\u2019s research program is innovative and highly collaborative, provides expert training for a large number of students and other highly qualified personnel, and has attracted substantial interest from several industrial partners.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"e-n-tab-content-178511366011\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-178511366011\" data-tab-index=\"11\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 11;\" class=\" elementor-element elementor-element-4a201ee8 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"4a201ee8\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1ccfc384 e-grid e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"1ccfc384\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5ac6d7e6 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"5ac6d7e6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1a274600 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"1a274600\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_1a274600_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#1a274600_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Logo_wordmark_colour-290x300-1.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-564\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_1a274600_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDerek Nowrouzezahrai\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-1a274600\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_1a274600_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Logo_wordmark_colour-290x300-1.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-564\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Derek Nowrouzezahrai<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDr. Derek Nowrouzezahrai is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the University of Montreal, where he serves as the co-Director of the Computer Graphics Research Laboratory. After receiving his Ph.D. (2010) and M.Sc. (2006) from the University of Toronto, Derek was a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Disney Research Zurich where he additionally lectured at ETH Zurich. Derek\u2019s research interests span many sub-areas in digital media and computational physics, including realistic image synthesis, appearance modeling, fluid simulation, user-centric digital content creation tools, and digital fabrication. Derek has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles, including over 15 in the ACM Transactions on Graphics Journal, the leading venue for academic work in computer graphics. Derek has recently served as Technical Papers co-Chair for the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering and SIBGRAPI, as well as having served on every top-tier International Technical Program Committee in computer graphics.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4662c1fa e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"4662c1fa\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-39cefbe elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"39cefbe\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_39cefbe_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#39cefbe_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Logo_wordmark_colour-290x300-1.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-564\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_39cefbe_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tXue (Steve) Liu\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">McGill University\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-39cefbe\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_39cefbe_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Logo_wordmark_colour-290x300-1.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-564\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Xue (Steve) Liu<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tProfessor Xue Liu joined the School of Computer Science of McGill University in 2007 after completing his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Prof. Liu, now a Dawson Chair holder, is a rising star in the area of Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), which aims to design the new generation of time-critical and safety-critical systems where computing, communication, and the physical words are tightly coupled. His research focuses on the foundations and several important application domains of CPS, including Green IT and Smart Energies, Sensor and Actuator Networks, and Automotive CPS. Prof. Liu\u2019s productivity is truly outstanding, with more than 200 journal and conference publications, most of them in the most selective and impactful venues in his area. His work is funded both by federal and provincial agencies, but also by several private companies. Objective measures of scientific impact place him at the very top of his generation in computer science in Canada. Despite his young age, Prof. Liu is involved in a number of activities that are rarely performed by junior researchers, including journal editorship positions, conference program chair, reviewer on several international panels, etc. He is also leading a large team of enthusiastic graduate and postdoctoral students, who, upon graduation, contribute to maintaining Canada\u2019s edge in information technologies.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-269f7486 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"269f7486\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-336ef0f2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"336ef0f2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_336ef0f2_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#336ef0f2_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ahmad_hassan.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10570\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ahmad_hassan.jpg 270w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ahmad_hassan-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ahmad_hassan-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_336ef0f2_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAhmed E. Hassan\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">Queen\u2019s University\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-336ef0f2\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_336ef0f2_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ahmad_hassan.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10570\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ahmad_hassan.jpg 270w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ahmad_hassan-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ahmad_hassan-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Ahmed E. Hassan<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDr. Ahmed E. Hassan is one of the world\u2019s top young software engineering researchers and arguably the world leader in at least two areas. Mining Software Repositories (MSR) is a research area that he was instrumental in founding over a decade ago. Ultra large scale software (ULSS) systems is an area in which his lab is widely recognized as the best in the world. Dr. Hassan is exceptionally productive; his work has repeatedly appeared in all of the top venues in software engineering. As one of the highest cited software engineering researchers in Canada for the past five years, the quality of his published research is remarkable: he is the recipient of numerous best paper awards and distinguished by many invitations to submit journal articles at fully refereed international conferences. His work is highly influential and he has been keynote speaker in the top conferences in software engineering. Graduates of his laboratory are themselves outstanding and uniformly rank among the top young international researchers in software engineering. Dr. Hassan\u2019s excellence in research and impact in software engineering has been recognized nationally and provincially as with an NSERC Industrial Research Chair, a Canada Research Chair and an Ontario Early Researcher Award.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"e-n-tab-content-178511366012\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-178511366012\" data-tab-index=\"12\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 12;\" class=\" elementor-element elementor-element-7ac78ffb e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"7ac78ffb\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b8b266e e-grid e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"b8b266e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1aebef7f e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"1aebef7f\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1ad9e8ef elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"1ad9e8ef\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_1ad9e8ef_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#1ad9e8ef_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Logo_wordmark_colour-290x300-1.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-564\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_1ad9e8ef_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tKevin Leyton-Brown\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of British Columbia\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-1ad9e8ef\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_1ad9e8ef_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Logo_wordmark_colour-290x300-1.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-564\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Kevin Leyton-Brown<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDr. Kevin Leyton-Brown has demonstrated remarkable international leadership during the past decade in the areas of game theory, auction design, and empirical algorithmics. Game theory studies what happens when strategic interests collide. The internet facilitates a wide range of interactions and electronic commerce that are larger and more complex than traditional analysis can handle. Leyton-Brown\u2019s research aims to extend such analysis to internet scale. It focuses on computational tools, auctions, and fast algorithms for solving hard problems. His key contributions to computational game theory include the first representation language for describing large, general settings in which all players interact; algorithms for efficiently answering game theoretic questions; and novel methods for predicting human behavior in strategic situations. He has developed novel algorithms for complex multi-good auctions that have had wide impact in electronic commerce companies and government, including the top contender for use in the US FCC\u2019s upcoming, $50 billion \u201cincentive auction\u201d of radio spectrum. He has also developed the first methods for using machine learning to characterize algorithm performance, as well as developing some of the world\u2019s fastest constraint-solving algorithms.\n\nKevin is the coauthor of two widely adopted and widely cited textbooks on multiagent systems and game theory. He has cotaught the most popular online course on Game Theory that enrolled a quarter-million students spanning 98% of the world\u2019s countries. He has won 5 best paper awards in the past three years; two Google Faculty Research Awards; and 22 medals in 5 international SAT competitions (2003\u20132012). Kevin has worked for seven different startup companies since 1999, including Vancouver-based Zite, which was acquired by CNN. Kevin\u2019s students have won over two dozen graduate fellowships and awards, including three best PhD thesis awards. He is currently associate editor at three top journals (AIJ, JAIR, ACM-TEAC) and was recently program co-chair of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-163aa4eb e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"163aa4eb\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7d00c8ca elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"7d00c8ca\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_7d00c8ca_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#7d00c8ca_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"479\" height=\"479\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/bianca_schroeder.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10585\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/bianca_schroeder.jpg 479w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/bianca_schroeder-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/bianca_schroeder-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/bianca_schroeder-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_7d00c8ca_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBianca Schroeder\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of Toronto Scarborough\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-7d00c8ca\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_7d00c8ca_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"479\" height=\"479\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/bianca_schroeder.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10585\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/bianca_schroeder.jpg 479w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/bianca_schroeder-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/bianca_schroeder-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/bianca_schroeder-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Bianca Schroeder<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tProfessor Bianca Schroeder\u2019s research addresses the reliability of Internet-scale systems. Despite our growing dependence on Internet-based services and the devastating impact of failures, our understanding of how Internet-scale services fail is poor. The lack of publicly available failure data, as well as the complexity of analysing failure at scale only exacerbate the challenge. Prof. Schroeder has addressed these challenges by combining large-scale data collection from production data-centers with statistical data analysis. Prof. Schroeder\u2019s seminal insights have had tremendous impact on both the research community, and on industry practice. Her research has dispelled long-standing misconceptions about systems failures and has produced system models that help identify principles for improved systems design. Her papers are widely cited and have received numerous awards. Prof. Schroeder\u2019s work has been recognized by the highly prestigious Sloan Fellowship, as well as an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement, a Connaught New Research Award, a NetApp Faculty Fellowship Award, and an IBM PhD Fellowship.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-482fab1e e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"482fab1e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3573ce3f elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"3573ce3f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_3573ce3f_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#3573ce3f_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"560\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Awards-picture11.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10591\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Awards-picture11.png 700w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Awards-picture11-400x320.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_3573ce3f_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSandra Zilles\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of Regina<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-3573ce3f\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_3573ce3f_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"560\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Awards-picture11.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10591\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Awards-picture11.png 700w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Awards-picture11-400x320.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Sandra Zilles<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDr. Sandra Zilles works in the area of computational learning theory, where she has made numerous important contributions. She is a Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) at the University of Regina with significant NSERC and CFI funding. One of her recent papers won the Best Paper award at the German AI conference in 2012. She is a regular contributor to the top conferences in her field (ALT and COLT) and she has been named a co-chair of the conference steering committee for ALT. She is a rare person who can bridge the gap between theory and practice. She has repeatedly demonstrated an enviable combination of breadth and depth, combining expertise in several areas to illuminate fundamental phenomena. Collaborations with other researchers, established and junior, are a prominent feature of Dr. Zilles\u2019 publication record. Her colleagues come from Japan, Singapore, the United States, Germany, as well as from other Canadian universities. She has many publications in the top journals of her field. For example, she has three publications in Artificial Intelligence, which is often considered to be the leading journal in that area. Many of her conference publications have been rated highly enough to be amongst the select few invited to appear in an associated journal\u2019s special issue \u2013 after being expanded and further reviewed. She also has further important publications currently under review. She is renowned as a communicator par excellence, able to make difficult concepts accessible with clarity and simplicity: one of many reasons why colleagues and students hold her in high regard. Within her excellent publication record, her important research advances include: the surprising and insightful integration of two seemingly unrelated learning models that had been studied independently from each other for almost 20 years; substantial improvements upon previous research through new models of cooperative teaching and learning; and the significant improvement of a solution for a classical search problem using an intuitively clear and easy to understand idea based on techniques from machine learning. Her research career demonstrates creativity, productivity, independence and leadership ability.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"e-n-tab-content-178511366013\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-178511366013\" data-tab-index=\"13\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 13;\" class=\" elementor-element elementor-element-10b5735d e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"10b5735d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2225af70 e-grid e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"2225af70\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-16bc6886 e-con-full 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src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Michael-Friedlander.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10601\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Michael-Friedlander.png 700w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Michael-Friedlander-400x320.png 400w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Michael-Friedlander-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Michael-Friedlander-600x480.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_79202a9d_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMichael Friedlander\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">The University of British Columbia\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-79202a9d\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_79202a9d_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"560\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Michael-Friedlander.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10601\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Michael-Friedlander.png 700w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Michael-Friedlander-400x320.png 400w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Michael-Friedlander-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Michael-Friedlander-600x480.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Michael Friedlander<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn his relatively short career Michael Friedlander has already managed several times to bridge in a stellar fashion between optimization theory, software, and sophisticated application. His contributions to the theory and practice of mathematical optimization are at once topical and lasting. His software packages are used by practitioners from both academia and industry in a variety of application fields, including seismic imaging, machine learning, and signal processing. These efforts required development of a substantial body of new theory that has implications for others in the field, and his ability to develop deep theoretical results that have implications for pragmatic software implementation set him apart from many others in his community. His papers have received over 1000 citations and a Google h-index of 15, and he is already an associate editor of several leading journals.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1b09b89e e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"1b09b89e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-29ff040 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"29ff040\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_29ff040_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#29ff040_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eyal_de_lara_2.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10607\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eyal_de_lara_2.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eyal_de_lara_2-100x100.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eyal_de_lara_2-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eyal_de_lara_2-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_29ff040_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tEyal de Lara\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of Toronto\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-29ff040\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_29ff040_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eyal_de_lara_2.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10607\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eyal_de_lara_2.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eyal_de_lara_2-100x100.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eyal_de_lara_2-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eyal_de_lara_2-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Eyal de Lara<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tProf. Eyal de Lara\u2019s research tackles some of the most important problems in mobile and cloud computing, creating game\u2010changing solutions that in turn have spun off two Canadian funded start\u2010up companies. Eyal\u2019s research on VM Fork, a new abstraction for cloud computing, could revolutionize the way applications are provisioned on the cloud by enabling on\u2010demand application scaling. His work on context awareness led to the first localization system based on cell phone signal fingerprinting, which provides accurate location information for applications such as 911 emergency response in indoor environments where GPS does not work. Eyal\u2019s work has been recognized with an IBM Faculty Award and a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Discovery Accelerator Award. In addition, he supervised the PhD Dissertation of Andres Lagar\u2010Cavilla, which was awarded the 2010 NSERC Doctoral Prize. Eyal was the first Canadian to chair the program committee of ACM MobiSys, the top conference in the field of mobile systems, and is the only Canadian on the editorial board of IEEE Pervasive Computing, the top venue in the field of ubiquitous computing. In 2012, Eyal and his colleagues, were honoured with a University of Toronto Inventors of the Year award for their work on VM Fork.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-79edadec e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"79edadec\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-66758506 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"66758506\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_66758506_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#66758506_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"499\" height=\"499\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ondrej_lhotak.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10612\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ondrej_lhotak.jpg 499w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ondrej_lhotak-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ondrej_lhotak-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ondrej_lhotak-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ondrej_lhotak-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_66758506_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tOnd\u0159ej Lhot\u00e1k\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of Waterloo\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-66758506\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_66758506_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"499\" height=\"499\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ondrej_lhotak.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10612\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ondrej_lhotak.jpg 499w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ondrej_lhotak-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ondrej_lhotak-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ondrej_lhotak-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ondrej_lhotak-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Ond\u0159ej Lhot\u00e1k<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOnd\u0159ej Lhot\u00e1k has made significant contributions in the areas of program analysis and aspect-oriented programming. As part of his dissertation research, he developed a novel approach for pointer analysis of object-oriented programs that relies on Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) for compactly representing large sets of program analysis facts. This approach distinguishes itself from previous approaches to pointer analysis by its superior scalability. Dr. Lhot\u00e1k also has made significant contributions in the areas of aspect-oriented programming. In particular, he has developed a notion of \u201ctracematches\u201d that enable the construction of advanced tools for debugging and runtime monitoring and demonstrated that tracematches can be implemented efficiently by using program analysis to reduce the amount of instrumentation overhead. Dr. Lhot\u00e1k\u2019s projects are characterized by rigorous experimental evaluations, and much of the infrastructure developed as part of Dr. Lhot\u00e1k\u2019s research has been released as open-source software, to the significant benefit of the Programming Languages community.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"e-n-tab-content-178511366014\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-178511366014\" data-tab-index=\"14\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 14;\" class=\" elementor-element elementor-element-75b771ff e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"75b771ff\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-296ec94b e-grid e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" 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data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_325d34e_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMathieu Blanchette\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">McGill University<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-325d34e\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_325d34e_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 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He develops cutting-edge computational approaches for helping solve challenging biological and biomedical questions in the fields of genomics, proteomics, and evolution. His group has developed a number of key algorithms and accompanying software for comparative genomics and the annotation of the human genome. A highly collaborative researcher, his work has been published in more than 75 international journals and conferences. His contributions to the field of computational biology have been recognized by the International Society for Computational Biology, which awarded him the 2006 Chris Overton award, given annually to the most impactful young researcher in the field. He was a Sloan Fellow (2007-2009), sits on the editorial board of the leading journal in genomics, and is a program committee member of all the top international bioinformatics conferences. His work has received more than 4000 citations to date. His group of 10 dedicated students and postdocs is funded by NSERC, CIHR, Genome Quebec, Genome Canada, and the Canadian Foundation for Innovation.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-24498d08 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"24498d08\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-94d2af5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"94d2af5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_94d2af5_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#94d2af5_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"379\" height=\"379\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/michael_brudno.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10629\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/michael_brudno.jpg 379w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/michael_brudno-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/michael_brudno-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/michael_brudno-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 379px) 100vw, 379px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_94d2af5_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMichael Brudno\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of Toronto<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-94d2af5\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_94d2af5_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"379\" height=\"379\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/michael_brudno.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10629\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/michael_brudno.jpg 379w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/michael_brudno-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/michael_brudno-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/michael_brudno-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 379px) 100vw, 379px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Michael Brudno<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMichael Brudno is a Computer Scientist who has made fundamental contributions to Computational Biology, an interdisciplinary field that aims to solve biological problems through the development of algorithms and other computational methodologies. Dr. Brudno\u2019s highly-cited research centers on the analysis of High-Throughput Sequencing data. HTS Technologies have enabled the sequencing of thousands of human genomes, but the analysis of terabyte-sized datasets generated by these machines required sophisticated computer algorithms. Dr. Brudno has made fundamental contributions to several problems in this field, from developing algorithms for rapidly identifying where on the \u201creference\u201d human genome each read belongs, and hence inferring the differences between the genomes of various individuals, to building methods that attempt to reconstruct such genomes from scratch. Dr. Brudno has published award-winning papers on cloud computing, population genetics and comparative genomics. Dr. Brudno\u2019s contributions clearly set him aside as one of the top young computer scientists, not just in Canada, but internationally. His is a stellar record of research productivity, student supervision, and scientific service.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-46d6d7b e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"46d6d7b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-432c38ac elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"432c38ac\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_432c38ac_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#432c38ac_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"375\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/joanna_mcgrenere.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10634\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/joanna_mcgrenere.jpg 375w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/joanna_mcgrenere-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/joanna_mcgrenere-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/joanna_mcgrenere-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_432c38ac_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJoanna McGrenere\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">The University of British Columbia<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-432c38ac\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_432c38ac_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"375\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/joanna_mcgrenere.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10634\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/joanna_mcgrenere.jpg 375w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/joanna_mcgrenere-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/joanna_mcgrenere-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/joanna_mcgrenere-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Joanna McGrenere<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDr. Joanna McGrenere works in the area of human-computer interaction (HCI), where she is a pioneer in designing technology for people with aphasia or other cognitive disabilities. More generally, she is an expert in interactive technology design for older users. Joanna is also a leader in the creation and evaluation of personalized graphical user interfaces that help users cope with the ever-increasing functionality available in software.  She has been instrumental in the principled design of numerous specific interface advances, such as the ephemeral adaptation technique, as well as methods for the field evaluation of interfaces, and the development of guidelines for involving domain experts in the user-centred design process. Throughout this work, Joanna has set new standards for mentorship. Her first three Ph.D. students now hold tenure-track faculty appointments at the University of Manitoba, the University of Maryland College Park, and McGill University. Equally remarkable, 50% of her 28 past-and-present graduate students are female, whereas the average for computer science hovers near 20%.  The scholarship of her work has been acknowledged with best paper awards at CHI, ASSETS, and IUI, major conferences in the area of human-computer interaction.  She is the inaugural winner of the Anita Borg Early Career Scholar award, is a regular participant on conference program committees, such as ACM SIGCHI, and is an Associate Editor for the ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"e-n-tab-content-178511366015\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-178511366015\" data-tab-index=\"15\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 15;\" class=\" elementor-element elementor-element-24cc886e e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"24cc886e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-485bbc2f e-grid e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"485bbc2f\" data-element_type=\"container\" 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class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tIan Goldberg\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of Waterloo\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-4356bf42\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_4356bf42_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"307\" height=\"307\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ian-goldberg.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10645\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ian-goldberg.jpg 307w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ian-goldberg-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ian-goldberg-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ian-goldberg-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Ian Goldberg<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDr. Goldberg is an excellent researcher whose focus is on privacy in the information age.  The primary theme running through his research is the principle that individuals should have a right to privacy, in the form of informational self-determination. Whereas technologies deployed on the internet often degrade privacy, it is also possible to design new technologies to enhance privacy. Dr. Goldberg\u2019s contributions in this arena are significant, wide-ranging and well recognized. In addition, Dr. Goldberg is also recognized as an expert in cryptography, both in terms of designing new systems and in cryptanalysing existing systems. Dr. Goldberg\u2019s contributions include the cryptanalysis of Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) and the design of the Off-the-Record (OTR) messaging system that is used worldwide.  Dr. Goldberg has given invited talks at conferences and institutions around the world and has published widely in the best conferences and journals in his areas of interest.  He has a continuous record of service on the program committees of these same influential conferences, including the USENIX Security Symposium (of which he has been program chair), the ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, and the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (of which he has also been program co-chair).  He is a founding member of the CrySP (Cryptography, Security, and Privacy) research group in the School of Computer Science at Waterloo, a group of faculty and graduate students that is internationally well known.  Dr. Goldberg won an Early Research Award from the Government of Ontario in 2010.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6cebbd73 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"6cebbd73\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-26cda8a0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"26cda8a0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_26cda8a0_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#26cda8a0_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/patrick_hayden.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10651\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/patrick_hayden.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/patrick_hayden-100x100.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/patrick_hayden-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/patrick_hayden-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_26cda8a0_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPatrick Hayden\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">McGill University\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-26cda8a0\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_26cda8a0_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/patrick_hayden.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10651\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/patrick_hayden.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/patrick_hayden-100x100.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/patrick_hayden-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/patrick_hayden-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Patrick Hayden<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPatrick Hayden holds the Canada Research Chair in the Physics of Information at McGill University. He is an enormously prolific and powerful problem solver with a unifying vision for his research program.  His research focuses on finding efficient methods for performing the communication tasks that will be required for large-scale quantum information processing.  This includes the development of methods for reliably sending quantum states through \u2018noisy\u2019 media and for protecting quantum information from unauthorized manipulation.  He has also applied these techniques to the question of information loss from black holes. He is widely published in the top physics and information theory journals and is a frequent invited speaker at prestigious international conferences. He serves as associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, as well as having served on the program committees of many excellent conferences.  So far in his career, he has refereed over 300 journal and conference papers.  Dr. Hayden is an enthusiastic supervisor of students, with a large cohort of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, as well as being an inspiring mentor to many undergraduate students. He was instrumental in organizing a summer school on quantum information science that brought over 80 young graduate students from around the world to Montr\u00e9al, giving them the opportunity to learn new skills not available to them in their home countries.  Dr. Hayden has won many honours.  He has been an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, the winner of a Sherman Fairchild Prize Fellowship at Caltech, and a Rhodes Scholar.  More recently, he has been awarded a Distinguished Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1c1de7a5 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"1c1de7a5\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-45fc4ae6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"45fc4ae6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_45fc4ae6_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#45fc4ae6_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"499\" height=\"499\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/parvin_mousavi.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10656\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/parvin_mousavi.jpg 499w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/parvin_mousavi-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/parvin_mousavi-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/parvin_mousavi-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/parvin_mousavi-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_45fc4ae6_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tParvin Mousavi\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">Queen\u2019s University\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-45fc4ae6\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_45fc4ae6_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"499\" height=\"499\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/parvin_mousavi.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10656\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/parvin_mousavi.jpg 499w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/parvin_mousavi-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/parvin_mousavi-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/parvin_mousavi-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/parvin_mousavi-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Parvin Mousavi<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDr. Parvin Mousavi is a leading young researcher in medical imaging, bioinformatics and systems biology.  Her innovative approaches to the acquisition and analysis of ultrasound signals have provided an enhanced understanding of the existence and the extent of prostate cancer. As a result, prostate cancer patients have an improved quality of life after treatment, while adverse effects are reduced. Her research will directly benefit the one in six Canadian men who already suffer from this disease. The number of patients is expected to double by 2025 when the baby boomer generation reaches the age of peak prevalence. Her unique integrative approach contributes to earlier diagnosis of multiple sclerosis and will facilitate the discovery of personalized therapies. She uses features from multiple imaging modalities, publicly available databases, and clinical information to formulate accurate models of the progression of this disease. This research will directly benefit the approximately 75,000 Canadians who already suffer from this disease and the 1,000 new patients expected to be diagnosed each year. Worldwide, there are 2.5 million people with multiple sclerosis. Dr. Mousavi is an internationally renowned researcher: her work appears in the top venues in her field. She has also filed a patent application for a method of improved ultrasonic detection.  She has been invited to present her research at universities in Canada and the US, as well as at national and international meetings. Dr. Mousavi has garnered career funding of $1.6 million, which is extremely impressive for a young researcher. She has served on the program committees of some of the top international conferences and workshops in her field, as well as article associate editor for the Medical Physics journal.  She is currently a board member of the Biomedical Engineering and Computational Biology Journal.  The candidate\u2019s impact on the research training of young researchers is significant.  Since joining Queen\u2019s University, she has supervised 10 research associates, 3 postdoctoral fellows, 7 PhD students,16 MSc students, and 27 senior undergraduates. She received an Early Researcher Award from the Government of Ontario in 2009.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"e-n-tab-content-178511366016\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-178511366016\" data-tab-index=\"16\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 16;\" class=\" elementor-element elementor-element-56d0ffdb e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"56d0ffdb\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6b4a4eb e-grid e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"6b4a4eb\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-78f73cb9 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" 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src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/aaron_hertzmann_award.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10667\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/aaron_hertzmann_award.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/aaron_hertzmann_award-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/aaron_hertzmann_award-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_1559d481_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAaron Hertzmann\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p 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class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Aaron Hertzmann<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAaron Hertzmann received in Ph.D. in computer science at New York University in 2001, and his B.A. in Computer SCience and Art &amp; Art History in 1996 at Rice University. He joined the Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto in 2003 after spending a year at the University of Washington.\n\n\nAaron made an audacious start to his career with a pair of startling papers at SIGGRAPH in 2000 and 2001. One, entitled \u201cStyle Machines\u201d, showed how idiomatic motion patterns from motion capture sequences could be extracted and applied to animated characters. The other, called \u201cImage Analogies,\u201d demonstrated that various aspects of artistic, painterly style could be transferred from one image to another. Taken together, these two papers gave clear evidence that machine learning techniques could be effectively applied to difficult problems in computer graphics by extracting important features from data and retargetting it to novel graphical situations.\n\n\nBoth of these papers have gone on to be among the most highly cited papers in computer graphics. For many researchers, these would be career results, but in fact Aaron has repeated this feat several times in several different fields! This includes technical areas such as computational aesthetics, physically based character animation, automatic tracking, texture synthesis, image processing, and appearance model extraction. While diverse in scope, his approach is consistent: Aaron develops generalized computational models of phenomena that typically are extracted from a corpus of empirical evidence. As such, he commonly takes advantage of, and if necessary develops, statistical analytic techniques that find relevant signals within large amounts of high-dimensional data. A shorter way to say this is that Aaron builds simple, usable visual models extracted from extremely complex systems. His results have always been provocative and often astonishing. They have garnered him numerous research awards and citations, including both Sloan and Microsoft fellowships, an MIT Technology Review top 100 innovator citation, and an Ontario Early Researcher Award.\n\n\nHe sits on various editorial boards and has participated in many conference programme committees, including the SIGGRAPH papers committee several times. He has given many invited talks worldwide and has just returned from a research leave at Pixar.\n\n\nAaron\u2019s innovations have been strongly influential in computer graphics and computer vision, and his research progress continues to accelerate and be more influential as he draws more top students to his research. The Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto is proud of his accomplishments, are overjoyed with his being presented a CACS\/AIC Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher award, and look forward to more great things to come from Aaron.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7672c874 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"7672c874\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-61ae10c elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"61ae10c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_61ae10c_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#61ae10c_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/bin_ma_award.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10673\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/bin_ma_award.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/bin_ma_award-400x301.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/bin_ma_award-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_61ae10c_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBin Ma\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of Waterloo\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-61ae10c\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_61ae10c_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/bin_ma_award.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10673\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/bin_ma_award.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/bin_ma_award-400x301.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/bin_ma_award-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Bin Ma<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDr. Bin Ma has made significant contributions in bioinformatics, an important interdisciplinary subject where computer scientists develop new models, algorithms and software for solving biological problems. Dr. Ma\u2019s main contributions span two important areas of bioinformatics: computational mass spectrometry and sequence homology search. His contributions in both areas have had major impact in the field, providing innovative approaches for computer scientists to confront biological problems and equipping biologists with novel tools to analyze their data in hundreds of research labs worldwide.\n\nComputational mass spectrometry is a relatively new, but hugely influential area in bioinformatics. The computational methods developed in this area helped establish modern proteomics, a subject that studies all the proteins\/peptides existing in a biological tissue at a given moment. The study of proteomics has already led to the development of new drugs and treatments for major human diseases such as cancer. Dr. Ma has made a major contribution to this area, by developing the industrial standard \u201cde novo sequencing\u201d software (PEAKS) for identifying novel peptides from mass spectrometry data. Based on an innovative algorithm, his program was the first \u201cde novo sequencing\u201d software widely used in mass spectrometry labs. It is now the most widely used \u201cde novo sequencing\u201d software today, and is regarded as the best by the users\u2019 community.\n\nAfter the wide adoption of his de novo sequencing tool, Dr. Ma has also been working on other analytical software tools to assist biochemists and health researchers in quantifying and characterizing proteins and post-translational modifications with mass spectrometry. Since abnormal proteins and modifications are directly related to disease, such tools are of great importance in finding protein biomarkers and in understanding some important disease pathways.\n\nIn the sequence homology search area, scientists want to find all DNA sequences in a large database that are similar to a given sequence, since those similar sequences are likely to have similar functions to the given one. This is a central problem in bioinformatics has applications in almost every other bioinformatics research area. Dr. Ma proposed the \u201cspaced seed method\u201d for more efficient filtration in the similarity search. This method rapidly replaced the consecutive seed method that had been used in the area for two decades, and has now been established as the standard method for all newly developed homology search software. Recently, the spaced seed method has also been widely used in analyzing the next generation of DNA sequencing data.\n\nOverall, Dr. Ma\u2019s research in bioinformatics has resulted in significantly improved practical solutions. The outcomes are widely used in practice, generating significant impacts in both biological and health studies.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2f1d7b41 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"2f1d7b41\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3edca227 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"3edca227\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_3edca227_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#3edca227_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eric_schost_award.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10678\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eric_schost_award.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eric_schost_award-400x299.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eric_schost_award-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_3edca227_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tEric Schost\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of Western Ontario\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-3edca227\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_3edca227_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eric_schost_award.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10678\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eric_schost_award.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eric_schost_award-400x299.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eric_schost_award-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Eric Schost<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00c9ric is a gifted interdisciplinary researcher at the intersection of mathematics and computer science. He was educated at the \u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure, the most prestigious of the elite French grande \u00e9coles, where he ranked first at the admission exam to the \u00c9cole Normale Superieure de Cachan, established for the pure and applied sciences. During his studies he placed 38th in the 1996 French national mathematics exam.\n\n\nHis first two positions were at \u00c9cole Polytechnique (Paris), the most prestigious French engineering school. He was convinced to come to The University of Western Ontario where he is making many important research contributions in computer algebra, cryptography, and high performance computing as an Assistant Professor and the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Computer Algebra. The Department of Computer Science and the Ontario Research Centre for Computer Algebra are extremely fortunate to have him as a faculty member. Prior to his nomination for the Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Prize, he had already demonstrated that he was a very strong nominee. Since then, he has been further acknowledged by his peers with an NSERC Discovery Grant that recognizes him as being in the top 10% of all Computer Science researchers in Canada in his award year, an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement award, and as part of an NSERC RTI-1 Grant which received the maximum amount for that award. He is destined to maintain a most visible presence in his research field.\n\n\n\u00c9ric\u2019s research is in computer algebra, which deals with the manipulatation of mathematical formulas and expressions in a symbolic manner. He has had a number of significant achievements in well-studied areas such as fast arithmetics and symbolic computation. What is most interesting about his research is that it combines sophisticated mathematical theory with practical methodology. The computational needs to solve many of these questions are great, so solving real-life problems usually requires a non-trivial computational effort. A notable application is in cryptography, where more than a million CPU hours were used to construct a secure and fast cryptosystem. \u00c9ric\u2019s work combines diverse themes and techniques, such as fast arithmetic operations for polynomials and the resolution of polynomial systems.\n\n\nOne can safely say that everything Eric does is at a high level, be it research, teaching or academic service, and that is due in particular to his incredible dedication and industriousness. Eric is already well recognized by the computer algebra community and he is a frequent speaker in the field at universities and professional meetings. 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He has been recognized with a Faculty Mentoring Award, among other honours, for his generous and influential guidance to colleagues.\nA recipient of the UBC Killam Teaching Prize, multiple departmental teaching and mentoring awards, and the Faculty of Science Service Award, Dr. Wolfman exemplifies excellence in educational leadership, pedagogical scholarship, and community impact\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"ekit-team-social-list\">\n\t\t\t<li class=\"elementor-repeater-item-b37fad5\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.ubc.ca\/people\/steve-wolfman\" aria-label=\"Website\">\n\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-globe\" viewBox=\"0 0 496 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M336.5 160C322 70.7 287.8 8 248 8s-74 62.7-88.5 152h177zM152 256c0 22.2 1.2 43.5 3.3 64h185.3c2.1-20.5 3.3-41.8 3.3-64s-1.2-43.5-3.3-64H155.3c-2.1 20.5-3.3 41.8-3.3 64zm324.7-96c-28.6-67.9-86.5-120.4-158-141.6 24.4 33.8 41.2 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He is an award-winning instructor who is consistently praised by his students for his exceptional teaching, engaging assessments, and incredible enthusiasm for computer science. Ben is a strong advocate for improving diversity within computer science which he has demonstrated through excellence in teaching for nonmajor students and EDI initiatives such as his leadership of the Workshop in Computer Science for Young Women. He is the author of a dozen pedagogically focused papers, five \u201cnifty\u201d assignments, and two textbooks. 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She has demonstrated continued and sustained excellence in the classroom through teaching, developing curriculum, and innovating several of UBC\u2019s core undergraduate Software Engineering courses. These innovations have included transitioning our second-year Software Engineering course to edX pre-pandemic to allow for greater in-class active learning, and further enhancing the course with Mastery Learning. Uniquely for teaching-focused faculty, Dr. Baniassad also supervises graduate students. With these students, she developed and deployed an enhanced project for our third-year Software Engineering course built around mutation testing. She applies a rigorous scientific process to her teaching, carefully instrumenting and evaluating her pedagogical innovations so they can be isolated and disseminated to the community through her many top-tier conference papers. Finally, Dr. Baniassad is a leader in our department, the university, and internationally, continually working to advance and improve Computer Science Education.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5477f31 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"5477f31\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-65323e2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"65323e2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_65323e2_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#65323e2_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"651\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Bowen-1024x651.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-17874\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Bowen-1024x651.png 1024w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Bowen-768x488.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_65323e2_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBowen Hui\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of British Columbia.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-65323e2\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_65323e2_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"651\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Bowen-1024x651.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-17874\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Bowen-1024x651.png 1024w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Bowen-768x488.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Bowen Hui<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAn innovative instructor, mentor, and leader, Dr. Bowen Hui has championed computational thinking and active learning for learners of all ages. She has piloted new techniques in her classroom, including personalized learning paths, course modularization, gamification platform, and community-service learning. Her recent accolades include Best Demo Award for her team analytics web-based tools at the 12th International Learning and Analytics Conference (2022), and the Provost\u2019s Award for Teaching Excellence and Innovation (UBC-2022).\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6ed9beb e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"6ed9beb\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-680eaac elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-team\" data-id=\"680eaac\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"elementskit-team.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-wid-con\">\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"profile-square-v square-v6 no_gutters\"> \t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"profile-card elementor-animation-shrink text-center ekit-team-style-long_height_details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_680eaac_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-header ekit-team-img \"  data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"ekit_team_modal_#680eaac_9770\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"902\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Daniel-scaled-e1683433140383-1024x902.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-17877\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_680eaac_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDaniel Zingaro\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of Toronto<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-680eaac\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_680eaac_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48l-22.24-22.24c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L176 189.28 75.93 89.21c-12.28-12.28-32.19-12.28-44.48 0L9.21 111.45c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48L109.28 256 9.21 356.07c-12.28 12.28-12.28 32.19 0 44.48l22.24 22.24c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0L176 322.72l100.07 100.07c12.28 12.28 32.2 12.28 44.48 0l22.24-22.24c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 0-44.48L242.72 256z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"902\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Daniel-scaled-e1683433140383-1024x902.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-17877\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Daniel Zingaro<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\nProfessor Dan Zingaro is an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, and the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM). He is an internationally recognized expert in computing education, having won awards for his research on peer instruction (#4 on the ACM SIGCSE Top Ten Papers of All Time in 2019 and the Chair\u2019s Award at ICER in 2014) and having released many of his peer instruction materials for the community. Dan has also recently written two books: a no-nonsense, no-math guide to algorithms and data structures and an introductory guide to Python programming. 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The suffix array, the Burrows-Wheeler transform and the FM-index can be extended to labeled graphs and automata, which better capture the complexity and interconnection of the modern world. In particular, pangenome graphs allow DNA reads to be aligned against multiple sequences simultaneously, thus better representing humanity\u2019s genetic diversity. This improves medical diagnoses for those groups that are underrepresented in the reference genome.\nThe key idea is to introduce a new quantity, p, that describes the complexity of a graph from multiple perspectives. First, p is a compression parameter: the smaller p is, the more the graph can be compressed. Second, p is an algorithmic parameter: the smaller p is, the faster we can solve pattern matching queries. Third, p is a non-determinism parameter: the larger p is, the more a regular language is inherently non-deterministic. 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class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Yasha Pushak<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAlgorithm designers are regularly faced with the tedious task of finding suitable default values for the parameters that impact the performance of algorithms. Thoroughly evaluating even a single parameter configuration typically requires running the algorithm on a large number of problem instances, which can make the process very slow. To address this problem, many automated algorithm configuration procedures have been proposed. The vast majority of these are based on powerful meta-heuristics with strong diversification mechanisms, thereby ensuring that they sufficiently explore the parameter configuration space.\n\nHowever, despite the prominence of automated algorithm configuration, relatively little is known about the algorithm configuration landscapes searched by these procedures, which relate parameter values to algorithm performance. As a result, while these strong diversification mechanisms make existing configurators robust, it is unclear whether or not they are actually required or simply increase the running time of the configurators.\n\nOne particularly notable early work in the field showed evidence suggesting that the algorithm configuration landscapes of two optimization algorithms are, in fact, close to uni-modal. However, existing fitness landscape analysis techniques are unable to account for the stochasticity in the performance measurements of algorithms in a statistically principled way, which is a major barrier to their application to studying algorithm configuration scenarios. We address this gap by developing the first statistically principled method for detecting significant deviations from uni-modality in a stochastic landscape.\n\nWe apply this method, along with other (new and existing) landscape analysis techniques, to a variety of algorithm configuration scenarios arising in autoiii mated machine learning (AutoML) and the minimization of the running time of algorithms for solving N P-hard problems. We show that algorithm configuration landscapes are most often highly structured and relatively simple.\n\nUsing the intuition from this analysis, we develop two prototype algorithm configuration procedures designed for AutoML. We show that the methods make assumptions that are too strong, leading to mixed results. However, we build on this intuition and develop another procedure for the configuration of N P-hard algorithms. Compared to state-of-the-art baselines, we show that our new method often finds similar or better configurations in the same or less time.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"e-n-tab-content-838622334\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-838622334\" data-tab-index=\"4\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 4;\" class=\" elementor-element elementor-element-61e1558 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"61e1558\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2c15ca1 e-grid e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"2c15ca1\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element 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class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmage Color Correction, Enhancement, and Editing\n\nThis thesis presents methods and approaches to image color correction, color enhancement, and color editing. To begin, we study the color correction problem from the standpoint of the camera\u2019s image signal processor (ISP). A camera\u2019s ISP is hardware that applies a series of in-camera image processing and color manipulation steps, many of which are nonlinear in nature, to render the initial sensor image to its final photo-finished representation saved in the 8-bit standard RGB (sRGB) color space. As white balance (WB) is one of the major procedures applied by the ISP for color correction, this thesis presents two different methods for ISP white balancing. Afterward, we discuss another scenario of correcting and editing image colors, where we present a set of methods to correct and edit WB settings for images that have been improperly white-balanced by the ISP. Then, we explore another factor that has a significant impact on the quality of camera-rendered colors, in which we outline two different methods to correct exposure errors in camera-rendered images. Lastly, we discuss post-capture auto color editing and manipulation. In particular, we propose auto image recoloring methods to generate different realistic versions of the same camera-rendered image with new colors. Through extensive evaluations, we demonstrate that our methods provide superior solutions compared to existing alternatives targeting color correction, color enhancement, and color editing.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"e-n-tab-content-838622335\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-838622335\" data-tab-index=\"5\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 5;\" class=\" elementor-element elementor-element-b8ee313 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"b8ee313\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b0cdebb e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"b0cdebb\" data-element_type=\"container\" 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https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Mike-Schaekermann-award.jpg 1085w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_519378b_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMike Schaekermann\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">The University of Waterloo<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-519378b\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_519378b_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div 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1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Mike Schaekermann<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHuman-AI Interaction in the Presence of Ambiguity: From Deliberation-based Labeling to Ambiguity-aware AI\n\nAmbiguity, the quality of being open to more than one interpretation, permeates our lives. It comes in different forms including linguistic and visual ambiguity, arises for various reasons and gives rise to disagreements among human observers that can be hard or impossible to resolve. As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly infused into complex domains of human decision making it is crucial that the underlying AI mechanisms also support a notion of ambiguity. Yet, existing AI approaches typically assume that there is a single correct answer for any given input, lacking mechanisms to incorporate diverse human perspectives in various parts of the AI pipeline, including data labeling, model development and user interface design.\n\nThis dissertation aims to shed light on the question of how humans and AI can be effective partners in the presence of ambiguous problems.\n\nMike\u2019s PhD supervisors were Edith Law and Kate Larson.\n\nMike Schaekermann\u2019s research is located at the intersection of human-computer interaction, machine learning and medicine.  He is currently works as an Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS).\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"e-n-tab-content-838622336\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-838622336\" data-tab-index=\"6\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 6;\" class=\" elementor-element elementor-element-9d68eb0 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"9d68eb0\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e5bb165 e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"e5bb165\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1d7762c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" 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The asynchronous shared memory model that is considered in the thesis is the standard model used to design and analyze algorithms which exploit the parallel power of multiple processors. Today, such systems are ubiquitous; the shared memory model is relevant for almost all of modern computer systems, ranging from multi-core desktop computers to high- performance clusters.\n\nThis is perhaps the most important thesis in the field of distributed computing since the thesis of Jim Aspnes about 27 years ago. It contains several lower bounds to long-standing open problems in Distributed Computing, and introduces several new proof techniques that are certain to have a continuing effect on the field.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"e-n-tab-content-838622337\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-838622337\" data-tab-index=\"7\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 7;\" class=\" elementor-element elementor-element-6fc979e e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"6fc979e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-094479c e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"094479c\" data-element_type=\"container\" 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data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_197f01f_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJulie Nutini\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">The University of British Columbia\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-197f01f\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_197f01f_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered\" role=\"document\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"ekit-team-modal-close\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-times\" viewBox=\"0 0 352 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M242.72 256l100.07-100.07c12.28-12.28 12.28-32.19 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She graduated from the University of British Columbia (Okanagan Campus) in 2010 with a BSc in General Mathematics (with honors), and in 2012 with a MSc in Mathematical Optimization (Governor General\u2019s Gold Medal recipient). Her MSc thesis, supervised by Warren Hare, focused on derivative-free optimization methods for finite minimax problems. Her PhD was supervised by Mark Schmidt at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Her research area is optimization and machine learning with a focus on coordinate descent methods.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-f579aaa elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"f579aaa\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6f652f8\" data-id=\"6f652f8\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-854cdb5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"854cdb5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" data-fontsize=\"24\" data-lineheight=\"24px\"><strong>Distinguished Service Award<\/strong><\/h4><p>The Distinguished Service Award is presented annually to recognize outstanding service to CS-Can|Info-Can and the Canadian computer science community at large.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-136ebaf e-n-tabs-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-n-tabs\" data-id=\"136ebaf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;tabs_justify_horizontal&quot;:&quot;stretch&quot;,&quot;horizontal_scroll&quot;:&quot;disable&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"nested-tabs.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-n-tabs\" data-widget-number=\"20376495\" aria-label=\"Tabs. 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class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDr. Kelly Lyons is a professor at the University of Toronto where she holds a prominent position in the Faculty of Information. With a Ph.D. in Computer Science, her research expertise lies in the intersection of information retrieval, natural language processing, and human-computer interaction. Dr. Lyons has an extensive publication record, with her work contributing significantly to the academic discourse in her field. Before joining the University of Toronto, she was the Program Director of the IBM Toronto Lab Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS). She was a strong advocate of facilitating research between industry and academia.\n In addition to her research achievements, she has taken on leadership roles in various capacities, including serving on the CS-CAN|INFO-CAN Board of Directors and on the Awards Committee. Dr. Lyons has served as the Chair of the CSCAN|INFOCAN Awards Committee with unparalleled dedication, effectiveness, and grace. Under her leadership, the Awards Committee has flourished, showcasing her commitment to recognizing outstanding achievements within the field of computer science.\nDr. Lyons' attention to detail has significantly elevated the quality and credibility of the CS-CAN|INFO-CAN Awards process. Her commitment to fairness and impartiality in the selection of award recipients has garnered widespread respect and trust from the CSCAN|INFOCAN community. Dr. Lyons consistently goes above and beyond to ensure that the awards program aligns with the highest standards of excellence.\nFurthermore, Dr. Lyons has played a pivotal role in expanding the reach and impact of the CSCAN|INFOCAN Awards. She has implemented innovative strategies to promote the awards, engage a broader audience, and increase the visibility of outstanding contributions within the computer science community. 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He is now the editor-in-chief of the journals Computational Geometry-Theory and Applications, and Journal of Spatial Information Science, as well as editor of The Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation. Dr. Sack has been the founding chair of NSERC\u2019s national Computer Science Liaison Committee and has been instrumental in the creation of the national CS organization CS-Can. He served as Science Advisor to the German Embassy in Ottawa and until 2016, he served on the decision body for the German Excellence Initiative. He has been appointed Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Zuse Institute, and is the member of the Scopus Content Selection &amp; Advisory Board responsible for Computer Science. He has also served as a member of the committee on G8 Research Councils Initiative on Multilateral Research Funding, the CFI Cyber- infrastructure Workshop, and the Tricouncil+ Consultation Workshop on Big Data and Digital Scholarship. 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I am a full time undergraduate course instructor teaching introductory courses as well as Database Systems. I am the first year course coordinator and the internship coordinator for the Queen's School of Computing. I am the founder of the ACM Canadian Celebration of Women in Computing annual conference which brings together women from across Canada who have a passion for technology to network and learn.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"e-n-tab-content-203764955\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-203764955\" data-tab-index=\"5\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 5;\" class=\" elementor-element elementor-element-b807f27 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"b807f27\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-37891c2 e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"37891c2\" data-element_type=\"container\" 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https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Carey-Williamson-DSA.jpg 1085w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_41cf59d_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tCarey Williamson\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-designation\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-content\">University of Calgary<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-body END -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <\/div> \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"zoom-anim-dialog mfp-hide elementskit-team-popup team-popup-id-41cf59d\" id=\"ekit_team_modal_41cf59d_9770\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"modal-dialog 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\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Carey Williamson<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe CS-Can|Info-Can Distinguished Service Award is presented to Carey Williamson for his outstanding leadership in CS-Can|Info-Can during the course of his career.\n\nCarey was involved with CACS\/AIC (the precursor to CS-Can|Info-Can) for 6 years, with highlights including roles on the Executive, hosting the AGM in 2015, and one year on the CRA Board to ensure that issues of concern to Canadian computer science researchers were included on the CRA agenda. He was part of the transition team for the creation of CS-Can|Info-Can, and served for one year on the interim Board of Directors before his most recent three-year term on the inaugural elected Board. His recent roles have included student liaison activities, conference sponsorship program, co-chair of the Awards Committee, and AGM planning. Throughout the decade that Carey spent working on CS-Can|Info-Can activities, there were significant changes and growth in the organization.\n\nCarey is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary, where he is a member of the Networks Research Group. His research focuses on computer networks and computer systems performance evaluation. Carey was chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary for six years from 2011-2016. He has served on numerous conference technical program committees and as general chair or co-chair for several major conferences, including ACM SOSP 2019, IEEE\/ACM IWQoS 2018, IEEE MASCOTS 2017, ACM IMC 2014, WWW 2007, and ACM SIGMETRICS 2005. He was also a member of NSERC Advisory Committee on University-Industry Grants, and has twice served on the SPEC Kavailya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award Committee.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"e-n-tab-content-203764956\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-203764956\" data-tab-index=\"6\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 6;\" class=\" elementor-element elementor-element-3417e3d e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"3417e3d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-847b01e e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"847b01e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div 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decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Marc-Frappier-cropped.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10145\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Marc-Frappier-cropped.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Marc-Frappier-cropped-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Marc-Frappier-cropped-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .profile-header END -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"profile\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" data-mfp-src=\"#ekit_team_modal_7e1bd8b_9770\" class=\"ekit-team-popup\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMarc Frappier\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p 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class=\"ekit-team-modal-info has-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ekit-team-modal-title\">Marc Frappier<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ekit-team-modal-position\"><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ekit-team-modal-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe inaugural Distinguished Service Award is presented to Marc Frappier to recognize his exceptional work in representing CS-Can|Info-Can, and the computer science community as a whole, in working to voice concerns about Bill n\u00b0 29 (PL-29) in the Province of Quebec.  Bill n\u00b0 29, which was introduced in June, 2019, proposed to amend the Engineers Act and posed major concerns for many IT stakeholders in the province.\n\nProfessor Frappier took a lead role in the formation of the Coalition for the Future of Informatics (Coalition pour l\u2019avenir de l\u2019informatique).  This coalition was established to convey the computer science community\u2019s important concerns about the bill\u2019s provisions with a common voice, and to invite the Government of Quebec to consider its recommendations.\n\nMarc\u2019s leadership on this issue ensured the Government of Quebec took into account the interests of the province\u2019s industry and academics in the fields of computer science and artificial intelligence as well as the potentially negative impact of the bill on the free practice of these fields, which are crucial to the Quebec and Canadian economies.\n\nMarc Frappier is a professor of Software Engineering in the Department of Computer Science at the Universit\u00e9 de Sherbrooke. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Ottawa (1995), and his research interests focus on the formal specification, synthesis, and construction of software and its application to security and model-based testing. Marc has published more than a hundred papers in international journals and conferences, and he has co-edited two books. Before joining the University of Sherbrooke, he worked for more than five years in industry as a consultant, senior analyst, and project manager for several companies. His industrial activities led him to work in various domains, including manufacturing (Alcan et Cascades), banking (Royal Bank of Canada, National Bank of Canada, BFD\/\u00c6BIS), pharmaceutical (Merck Frosst), aerospace (Canadian Space Agency) and telecommunications (Nortel).\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Past Winners Lifetime Achievement Award These awards recognize current or former faculty members in Canadian Computer Science Departments, Schools, and Faculties who have made outstanding and sustained contributions to computing over their careers. 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