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Meet the researchers and educators who make AI University one of Canada's leading research institutions.
Prof. Al-Hassan develops computational methods for genomic data analysis, protein structure prediction, and drug target identification. Her lab participates in the Canadian Bioinformatics Network and the international ENCODE consortium.
Research: Bioinformatics, computational genomics, protein structure prediction, drug discovery, multi-omics integration
Prof. Park's research spans real-time rendering, physically based simulation, and computational photography. Before joining academia he contributed to visual effects pipelines at major animation studios and holds three patents in GPU acceleration.
Research: Computer graphics, real-time rendering, physically based simulation, computational photography, GPU computing
Prof. Rosenberg's research addresses fault tolerance and consensus protocols in large-scale distributed systems. Before joining AI University he was a senior research scientist at Google, where he contributed to the Spanner and Borg projects.
Research: Distributed systems, fault tolerance, consensus algorithms, cloud computing, systems reliability
Prof. Osei's research focuses on interpretability and alignment of large-scale neural networks. He leads the AI & ML Lab and is the principal investigator on a $4.2M NSERC Alliance grant studying language model safety.
Research: Machine learning, AI alignment, neural network interpretability, large language models
Prof. Kowalski works on computational complexity and the theory of algorithms. Her recent work explores the complexity landscape for quantum algorithms and their classical counterparts, with implications for post-quantum cryptography.
Research: Computational complexity, algorithm theory, quantum complexity, approximation algorithms, randomized computation
Prof. Zhang specializes in multilingual NLP and low-resource language understanding. Her current work develops cross-lingual transfer methods for under-resourced Indigenous languages in partnership with community organizations across Canada.
Research: Natural language processing, multilingual models, low-resource NLP, computational semantics
Prof. Ruiz's research focuses on software testing, program verification, and DevSecOps practices at scale. He maintains active industry ties through collaborative research agreements with several Canadian software companies and the National Research Council.
Research: Software engineering, program verification, automated testing, DevSecOps, software reliability
Prof. Mehrotra investigates privacy-preserving computation and adversarial machine learning. She directs the Cybersecurity & Privacy Lab and serves as an external advisor to the Communications Security Establishment Canada.
Research: Cybersecurity, privacy-preserving ML, adversarial attacks, differential privacy, cryptographic protocols
Prof. Fontaine studies how people interact with AI systems in high-stakes environments such as healthcare and emergency response. Her lab's research is funded by NSERC and the Ontario Research Fund and focuses on trust, explainability, and human-centred design.
Research: Human-computer interaction, explainable AI, trust in automation, healthcare informatics, participatory design
Prof. Patel investigates quantum error correction and fault-tolerant quantum computation. He is an affiliate faculty member at the Perimeter Institute and collaborates with IBM Quantum on near-term quantum algorithm design.
Research: Quantum computing, quantum error correction, fault-tolerant computation, variational quantum algorithms
Prof. Mansour's research addresses statistical signal processing, wireless communications, and radar systems. He holds seven patents and maintains ongoing collaborative research programs with the Department of National Defence.
Research: Statistical signal processing, MIMO communications, radar systems, compressive sensing
Prof. Kowalski is a power systems engineer whose research focuses on smart grid optimization, renewable energy integration, and demand response. She is a registered professional engineer in Ontario and leads the university's NSERC Smart Grid Alliance project.
Research: Smart grid optimization, renewable energy integration, demand response, power systems
Prof. Mensah's research spans VLSI circuit design, low-power embedded systems, and hardware security. He directs the Integrated Circuits & Systems Lab and holds multiple US patents on low-power memory architectures.
Research: VLSI design, embedded systems, hardware security, low-power circuit design
Prof. Vasquez develops motion planning and control algorithms for autonomous robotic systems, with applications in manufacturing automation, search-and-rescue, and surgical robotics. Her lab is a founding member of the Ontario Robotics Consortium.
Research: Autonomous robotics, motion planning, control theory, surgical robotics, human-robot interaction
Prof. Yamamoto investigates photovoltaic system modelling, grid-tied inverter design, and energy storage optimization. His research is co-funded by NSERC and two major Canadian energy utilities through an Alliance grant.
Research: Photovoltaics, energy storage, power electronics, grid integration, microgrid design
Prof. Okonkwo is an interventional cardiologist with over 200 peer-reviewed publications and extensive international training. She is the co-director of the Northgate Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and a principal investigator on two CIHR-funded trials.
Research: Interventional cardiology, structural heart disease, percutaneous coronary intervention, cardiac imaging
Prof. Al-Rashid studies epigenetic regulation of gene expression in breast and ovarian cancers. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Cancer Epigenomics and is a co-investigator on the Canadian Cancer Society Breast Cancer Discovery Initiative.
Research: Cancer epigenomics, epigenetic therapy, breast and ovarian cancer, chromatin remodelling, translational oncology
Prof. Khalil is a physician-scientist specializing in lung cancer immunotherapy. Her laboratory studies immune checkpoint resistance mechanisms and she is the site principal investigator for three ongoing Phase II clinical trials.
Research: Thoracic oncology, cancer immunotherapy, immune checkpoint blockade, translational oncology, biomarker discovery
Prof. Nkrumah is a globally recognized infectious disease specialist with field experience across West Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean. He advises the WHO on pandemic preparedness and antimicrobial resistance policy.
Research: Infectious disease, global health, antimicrobial resistance, pandemic preparedness, tropical medicine
Prof. Whitfield's clinical and research focus is on ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death prevention. He leads a CIHR-funded study on genetic determinants of arrhythmia susceptibility in inherited cardiomyopathies.
Research: Cardiac electrophysiology, ventricular arrhythmia, sudden cardiac death, inherited cardiomyopathy, catheter ablation
Prof. Webb is a trauma and acute care surgeon with expertise in damage control resuscitation and traumatic brain injury management. He directs the Faculty's surgical simulation curriculum and is the trauma medical director at Northgate General Hospital.
Research: Trauma surgery, damage control resuscitation, traumatic brain injury, surgical education, acute care surgery
Prof. Tanaka leads curriculum innovation at the Faculty of Medicine, specializing in high-fidelity simulation and competency-based medical education. Her work has directly influenced national medical licensing examination reform in Canada.
Research: Medical education, simulation-based learning, competency-based assessment, curriculum design
Prof. Nair's research examines the intersection of culture, trauma, and mood disorders, with particular focus on immigrant and refugee mental health. She is a staff psychiatrist at Northgate General Hospital and holds a CIHR New Investigator Award.
Research: Cultural psychiatry, mood disorders, trauma-informed care, immigrant mental health, psychotherapy research
Prof. Swifthawk is a family physician and academic whose work centres on closing health equity gaps in Indigenous and remote communities across Northern Ontario. She is Anishinaabe and a founding member of the Faculty's Indigenous Health Advisory Circle.
Research: Indigenous health, rural and remote medicine, health equity, social determinants of health, community-based participatory research
Prof. O'Brien is a historian of modern Europe specializing in the political and intellectual history of the Cold War and its aftermath. He is currently completing a book on the transnational circulation of dissident ideas in late 20th-century Europe.
Research: Modern European history, Cold War intellectual history, transnational history, political thought, historiography
Prof. Tremblay's scholarship examines postcolonial literature in French, with particular attention to Francophone Africa and the Caribbean. She is the editor-in-chief of the bilingual journal Littératures du Monde and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Research: Francophone postcolonial literature, translation studies, world literature, French Caribbean writing
Prof. Adeyemi is a historian of West Africa and the Atlantic diaspora, with research interests in precolonial political economy and the long-term demographic and economic consequences of the transatlantic slave trade.
Research: West African history, Atlantic diaspora, precolonial political economy, slavery and its legacies
Prof. Beaumont specializes in Victorian fiction and the cultural history of the novel. Her recent book examines the relationship between scientific culture and narrative form in 19th-century Britain and was shortlisted for the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize.
Research: 19th-century British literature, Victorian fiction, science and literature, history of the novel
Prof. Murakami works at the intersection of philosophy of mind, consciousness studies, and the ethics of artificial intelligence. His monograph on machine consciousness was shortlisted for the Templeton Philosophy Prize and has been translated into eight languages.
Research: Philosophy of mind, consciousness, AI ethics, personal identity, philosophy of cognitive science
Prof. Lindqvist bridges linguistics and computer science, studying morphological complexity and the learnability of grammatical structure in natural languages. She collaborates closely with the Department of Computer Science on multilingual NLP projects.
Research: Computational linguistics, morphology, language acquisition, linguistic typology, NLP for low-resource languages
Prof. Adebayo is a corporate finance scholar whose research examines capital structure decisions, dividend policy, and the financial behaviour of firms operating under high uncertainty. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Corporate Finance.
Research: Corporate finance, capital structure, dividend policy, financial economics, firm behaviour under uncertainty
Prof. Mehta's research spans corporate strategy, innovation ecosystems, and entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Before joining academia he founded two technology ventures and has served on the boards of several Canadian publicly listed companies.
Research: Corporate strategy, entrepreneurship, innovation management, emerging markets, venture capital
Prof. Dumont's research addresses supply chain resilience, humanitarian logistics, and the application of operations research methods to public sector resource allocation problems. He has consulted for the United Nations World Food Programme.
Research: Operations management, supply chain resilience, humanitarian logistics, operations research, public sector optimization
Prof. Zhao studies consumer behaviour through large-scale digital data, with a focus on algorithmic recommendation systems and their effects on purchase decisions and market concentration. Her work has been cited in antitrust proceedings in Canada and the EU.
Research: Marketing analytics, consumer behaviour, algorithmic recommendations, digital markets, causal inference
Prof. Petrov investigates psychological safety, team dynamics, and the micro-foundations of organizational learning in knowledge-intensive firms. Her research has been recognized with a Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management.
Research: Organizational behaviour, psychological safety, team learning, knowledge management, organizational culture
Prof. Fontaine is an expert in WTO dispute settlement, trade remedies, and the interface between international trade obligations and domestic regulatory autonomy. He has acted as a legal expert in multiple WTO panel proceedings.
Research: International trade law, WTO dispute settlement, trade remedies, trade and investment, comparative trade regulation
Prof. Hughes is a leading constitutional law scholar who has appeared as counsel before the Supreme Court of Canada on four occasions. Her research focuses on fundamental rights, administrative law, and the constitutionalization of social and economic policy.
Research: Constitutional law, administrative law, fundamental rights, judicial review, equality law
Prof. Blackwood specializes in securities regulation, corporate governance, and mergers and acquisitions transactions. Before joining academia he was a partner at a leading national law firm in Toronto, advising public companies and investment dealers.
Research: Securities law, corporate governance, M&A, capital markets regulation, commercial law
Prof. Diallo's scholarly work examines wrongful convictions, the law of evidence, and systemic inequities in the criminal justice system. She co-directs the AI University Innocence Clinic, which has contributed to the exoneration of three individuals.
Research: Criminal law, evidence law, wrongful convictions, criminal procedure, access to justice
Prof. Park studies data governance, algorithmic accountability, and the regulation of AI systems under domestic and international law. She has advised the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information.
Research: Technology law, privacy law, AI regulation, data governance, algorithmic accountability