DFP - Key Persons
Abdulai Abdul-Fatawu is an experienced registered nurse with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital & health care industry for over 5 years in Ghana. He specialised in nursing informatics, mHealth, electronic health records, clinical decision support systems and the design of interactive systems for patients and healthcare professionals. He is a health informatics professional with a master's degree in Telemedicine and eHealth from UiT- The Arctic University of Norway.
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- Computer Science / 2020 Cohort
Abi Kuganesan is a MSc. student with the Computer Science department at the University of British Columbia. She completed her BASc. in Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Through various internships at NXP Semiconductors, North (Acquired by Google) and Avidbots, Abi gained interest in the intersection between Autonomous Driving and Human Factors. Abi is passionate about bringing cognisance of social factors into the domain of artificial intelligence. She pursued research in Social Pedestrian Intent Estimation while at the University of Waterloo. This work has been presented at the iUW Human Factors Conference at the University of Toronto in 2018. Abi worked as a Deep Learning Engineer for InvisionAI in Toronto prior to joining UBC. She is also the Co-Founder of Rekammend, an organization aiming to improve the quality of life for non-verbal individuals. In her free time, Abi enjoys hiking, cycling, calligraphy, experiencing new food and cultures.
Research Interests
It is Abi's belief that the behavioral intelligence of a human driver should also be modeled in order for autonomous vehicles to respond adequately to such scenarios. She aims to approach this problem from a Computer Vision and Machine Learning point of view using the cognitive structure of human intent formulation as a basis for heuristics. Abi's research interests are aligned with integrating social and human factors with prediction algorithms in order to enable more humane decision making. She is also interested in accessible and inclusive design and strives to research, prototype and develop solutions that are reflective of these interests.
Alan Kingstone (PhD, FRSC) is a Professor and Distinguished Scholar at the University of British Columbia; and Social Sciences and Humanities research advisor in the VP Research & Innovation office. His research investigates human behaviour in everyday and laboratory environments.
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- Student / Information School
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- Computer Science / Website
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- Information School
- Information School / 2017 Cohort
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- Computer Science / 2021 Cohort
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- Computer Science
- Computer Science / 2017 Cohort
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- Computer Science / 2020 Cohort
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- Computer Science / 2018 Cohort
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- Information School
- Information School / 2019 Cohort
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- Architecture & Landscape Architecture / Website
Dr. Hodgson received his PhD in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology in 1994, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Orthopaedic Trauma in collaboration with the Greenville Hospital System and the Bioengineering Department at Clemson University in 1995. He joined UBC the same year and is currently a Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He also served as director of the graduate program in Biomedical Engineering from 2010-2017 and as president of the International Society for Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery from 2014-15. He directs the Surgical Technologies Lab at the Centre for Hip Health and Mobility and is Associate Director for the Institute of Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (2017-present).
Master's student Vivian Chung demonstrating her system for performing Roentgen Stereophotogrammetric Analysis (RSA) using standard C-arm fluoroscopy machines
Research Interests
The primary focus of Dr. Hodgson's work is on computer-assisted orthopaedic surgery; the main goal is to improve the accuracy of performing surgical tasks (such as placing implants or reducing fractures) while minimizing use of and exposure to radiation and decreasing operative time. We are currently working in three main areas: 1. Using ultrasound to accurately locate bone surfaces in trauma and spinal surgery, 2. smart C-arm technologies to operate more accurately, efficiently and with less radiation exposure, and 3. bone-mounted robots for unicompartmental knee replacement surgeries.
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- Computer Science / 2018 Cohort
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- Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy / 2020 Cohort
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- Electrical & Computer Engineering / 2019 Cohort
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor, Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy
Dr. Mortenson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Simon Fraser University and is a Principal Investigator at ICORD. He completed his B.Sc. in Occupational Therapy at the University of Alberta, followed by his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Rehabilitation Science at the University of British Columbia. He completed his post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Montreal, funded by a CIHR grant, and a post-doctoral fellowship at the Simon Fraser University, funded by a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship Award.
Research Interests
Dr. Mortenson's research is focused on aging, social participation, outcome measurement, and assistive technology. His studies include four main overlapping populations: individuals with SCI, assistive technology users, residents of residential care facilities, and both formal and informal caregivers. Dr. Mortenson leads a study "Providing Accessible ReCreation Outdoors: User-driven Research on Standards (PARCOURS)" to inform the development of accessibility standards via a 3-year Federal grant (Accessibility Canada; 2021-2024). He is the principal investigator of a 7-year (2020-2026), interprovincial, SSHRC Partnership Grant entitled, "A Partnership for Improving Mobility, Access and Participation (MAP) Among People with Disabilities". This was the first SSHRC Partnership awarded to anyone in the Faculty of Medicine at UBC. He has or has held over $7M in funding as a principal investigator (PI) or co-PI and almost $50M as co-investigator.
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- Population & Public Health / Website
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- Information School
- Information School / 2018 Cohort
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- Architecture & Landscape Architecture
- Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of British Columbia School of Architecture
- Principal With Marc Swackhamer
Satterfield is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of British Columbia School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture in Vancouver Canada, where he teaches design studios and coordinates design media courses. He is also the director of the HiLo Lab; a UBC SALA based collaborative research initiative that reckons with three interrelated ideas - the use of second stream materials in construction, providing designers and the broader community with greater access to digital design and fabrication processes, and the design and application of energy and material efficient methods for construction. Satterfield will become Chair of the School of Architecture at UBC in January 2019. Prior to joining the faculty at UBC SALA, Satterfield taught at Rice University, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Houston, where he helped direct the development of products for the University of Houston Green Building Components initiative.
Satterfield is a co-founding principal with Marc Swackhamer of the research design collaborative HouMinn Practice. HouMinn's work has been featured in many publications, including Dwell and Fast Company, and has garnered prestigious awards such as the ACSA National Design Award, 2014 & 2008 R&D Award from Architect magazine, 2014 Core77 Design Award for Environments, and the Best in Environments award from ID Magazine. In addition to HouMinn, Satterfield has worked for Yung Ho Chang (now Atelier Feichang Jianzhu), Michael Bell Architecture (now Visible Weather), Oliver + Ray Architects, and Bricker + Cannady Architects, where he served as Director of Design for several years. His work with BCA and later Page won multiple AIA awards and national SARA design awards for architecture and urban design.
Research Interests
Satterfield's research focuses on material behaviour and production processes in architecture, including the interface between software, tools and materials.
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- Electrical & Computer Engineering / 2017 Cohort
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- Computer Science / Website
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- Computer Science / 2023 Cohort
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- Information School / 2021 Cohort
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- Information School / 2019 Cohort
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- Computer Science
- Computer Science / 2021 Cohort
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- Computer Science / 2021 Cohort
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- Computer Science / 2023 Cohort
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- Admin
- Communications Assistant
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- Associate Editor for UMUAI
- Computer Science
- Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia
Dr. Conati is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. She received a M.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of Milan, as well as a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Intelligent Systems at the University of Pittsburgh. Conati's research is at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Cognitive Science, with the goal to create intelligent interactive systems that can capture relevant user's properties (states, skills, needs) and personalize the interaction accordingly. Conati has over 100 peer-reviewed publications in this field and her research has received awards from a variety of venues, including UMUAI, the Journal of User Modeling and User Adapted Interaction (2002), the ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2007), the International Conference of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2013, 2014), TiiS, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Interactive Systems (2014), and the International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
Dr. Conati is an associate editor for UMUAI, ACM TiiS, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, and the Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. She served as President of AAAC, (Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing), as well as Program or Conference Chair for several international conferences including UMAP, ACM IUI, and AI in Education. She serves on the Executive Committees of AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) and of CAIDA (the UBC Center for Artificial Intelligence, Decision AMking and Action)
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- Computer Science
- Computer Science / Pre - Cohort
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- Computer Science
- Computer Science / 2021 Cohort
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- Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science
Dongwook Yoon is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, and a member of IMAGER and Design for People. His research lies at the intersection of human-computer interaction (HCI), computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), computer-mediated communication (CMC), augmented and virtual reality, and educational technology. He focuses on building rich collaboration systems that offer expressive multimodal interactions, i.e., interactions through multiple communication channels (e.g., speech, gesture, and grasp). His design approach translates natural human interactions into novel combinations of input modalities that serve as building blocks for fluid, rich, and lightweight interfaces. He deploys and evaluates high-fidelity systems in real world contexts (e.g., classrooms), from which we can obtain ecologically valid user data.
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- VP: AI Solutions, Universal MCloud, UBC CS Alumni
Dr. Jillianne Code is a learning scientist, whose area of research is at the praxis of educational technology, psychology and measurement. Before coming to the University of British Columbia, Jillianne was Associate Professor of Educational Technology and Psychology in the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria (UVic; 2011-17), and a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Assessment and Learning Technologies (2010-11). Dr. Code holds a Ph.D in Educational Psychology from Simon Fraser University, a M.Ed in Educational Psychology with a specialization Instructional Technology and a B.Ed in Secondary Science and Art Education from the University of Alberta.
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- Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy
Dr. Liisa Holsti's program of research focuses on developing ways to optimize neurodevelopment in infants and children. Her research includes developing assessment tools, developing and testing technology-based and other developmental interventions.
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- Assistant Professor, Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy
Dr. Suzanne Huot completed her PhD in Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (Occupational Science) at the University of Western Ontario. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy at the University of British Columbia. She leads the Community-University Partnerships research group for the UBC Centre for Migration Studies. She is also serving her third term as a board member for the International Society for Occupational Science. She conducts community-based and internationally comparative research. She has collaborated with scholars in Norway, New Zealand and the United States and has partnered with several non-profit organizations to complete studies addressing immigration, community cohesion, and long-term unemployment.
Research Interests
Dr. Huot's research program is centered on global migration with a focus on Francophone immigration to Canada. She addresses the occupational implications of international migration through focused, critical examination of governmental legislation, policies and discourses; of service providers and their roles; and of the experiences of individual immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers. Using research approaches informed by occupational science, critical social theory, and qualitative methodologies, she specifically examines ways in which governmental decisions and actions are experienced at the local scale in relation to people's daily occupations, interrogating the effect of these high-level decisions on peoples' social inclusion and community cohesion.
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- Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy
Dr. William C Miller (Bill), a rehabilitation epidemiologist, is a Professor in the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy at the University of British Columbia. He is a principal investigator with AGEWELL a pan-Canadian Network that strives to create real-world assistive technology solutions that have a meaningful impact on the lives of Canadian seniors, their caregivers and individuals with physical disability in general.
Bill has received >100 million in total research funding, published >240 peer reviewed papers and 12 book chapter and authored >400 conference presentations. He has provided supervision for >150 graduate students. He is a fellow of the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, is the president of International Society of Prosthetics and Orthotics Canada and is an editorial board member for the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
Research Interests
Dr. Miller's research focuses on the epidemiology, measurement, and evaluation of interventions and technologies that are designed to remediate mobility disability with the goal of improving social participation. He has developed six outcome tools designed for clinical practice and research some translated into multiple languages.
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- Information School / 2020 Cohort
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- Computer Science
- Computer Science / 2021 Cohort
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- Information School / 2022 Cohort
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- Associate Professor at the School of Library
- Information School
Eric M. Meyers is an Associate Professor at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS) at the University of British Columbia, where he teaches and conducts research on the information practices of young people in academic and everyday contexts. Eric's research interests lie at the intersection of information science, the learning sciences, and new media studies, with a focus on collaborative information use and meaning making in social situations. A former K-12 teacher, school librarian and technologist, Eric consults with a wide range of institutions and professionals regarding information services, youth programming, learning spaces, and technology-enriched curricula. He has published journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers on information behavior, school library programs, and research methods with young people. His current research, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) focuses on how early adolescents make decisions to use or reject information in the context of their daily lives.
Research Interests
Eric's research, at the intersection of information science and the learning sciences, explores how young people engage socially with digital information systems as they work, learn, and play. This research has included work on collaborative search, social reading environments, digital literacies in YouTube, and the affordances of tablet-based learning. Recent work has focused on how crafting and prototyping activities in informal learning settings, specifically Maker Camps and library-based coding and crafting programs, support the development of design literacies and computational thinking, the skills and attitudes that facilitate understanding of today's complex information and communication technologies. He is co-PI on The Six Seasons of the Asiniskow Ithiniwak: Reclamation, Regeneration, and Reconciliation, a $2.5 million SSHRC Partnership Grant which will build six multi-touch (tablet-based) narrative textual experiences for elementary-age children. This seven-year project works with northern Manitoba's Asiniskow Ithiniwak (Rocky Cree) to reclaim their history by revitalizing their stories of cultural identity. The prototype of the first app is in early testing.
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- Computer Science / 2020 Cohort
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- Computer Science / 2019 Cohort
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- Computer Science
- Computer Science / Pre - Cohort
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- Computer Science / 2019 Cohort
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- Computer Science / Website
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- Electrical & Computer Engineering / Website
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- Computer Science
- Computer Science / 2018 Cohort
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- Computer Science
- Computer Science / 2020 Cohort
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- Information School / Website
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- Computer Science
- Computer Science / Pre - Cohort
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- Computer Science
- Computer Science / 2017 Cohort
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- Associate Professor at the ISchool
- Information School
Heather O'Brien is an Associate Professor at the iSchool, UBC, where she teaches and researches in the area of human information interaction. Dr. O'Brien is best known for her work in the area of user engagement, where she has contributed numerous publications, including two books, Why Engagement Matters: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives and Innovations on User Engagement with Digital Media (edited with Paul Cairns, 2016) and Measuring User Engagement (authored with Mounia Lalmas and Elad Yom-Tov, 2014), as well as the User Engagement Scale (UES), an experiential questionnaire that is used internationally to understand digitally mediated user experiences. Her current research is supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant, SSHRC Partnership Development Grant. and UBC Hampton Research Fund Award.
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- Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia
- Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Helge Rhodin is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, associated with the computer vision and graphics labs. He was a lecturer at EPFL and continues collaborations with neuroscientists at UBC and EPFL. His research interests range from computer graphics and augmented reality, over 3D computer vision, to machine learning. Helge received the BSc and MSc degrees in Computer science from Saarland University. He graduated with a Ph.D. in 2016, with his thesis on Motion Capture for Interactive Virtual Worlds, mentored by Christian Theobalt and Hans-Peter Seidel at the Max-Planck Institute for Informatics.
Ian M. Mitchell received a B.A.Sc. in Engineering Physics and an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia, Canada in 1994 and 1997 respectively, and a Ph.D. in Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics from Stanford University in 2002. After spending a year as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley and the Department of Computer Science at Stanford, Dr. Mitchell joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia where he is now a professor. He is the author of the Toolbox of Level Set Methods, the first publicly available high accuracy implementation of solvers for dynamic implicit surfaces and the time dependent Hamilton-Jacobi equation that works in arbitrary dimension. Dr. Mitchell served as the engineering project lead in CanWheel, a cross-Canada team grant to study powered wheelchair use and improvement 2009 - 2015, as well as co-lead 2018 - 2020 of work package 3.2 "CoPilot" studying the design and use of shared control powered wheelchairs in the AGEWELL NCE.
Research Interests
Dr. Mitchell's current research focuses on control and planning in cyber-physical and robotic systems with a focus on safety of human-in-the-loop systems; for example, shared control of powered wheelchairs and automated delivery of anesthesia. Other research interests include development of algorithms and software for differential equations, formal verification of continuous state systems, assistive technology and reproducible research.
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- Teaching, Learning, & Technology / Website
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- Population & Public Health / 2021 Cohort
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- Computer Science
- Computer Science / 2022 Cohort
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- Computer Science
- Computer Science / Pre - Cohort
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- Computer Science / 2022 Cohort
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- Information School / 2020 Cohort
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- Systems Design Engineering
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- Computer Science
- Computer Science / Postdoc
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- Information School / 2020 Cohort
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- Computer Science / 2021 Cohort
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- Computer Science
- Professor
Joanna McGrenere is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and is an Inria and Université de Paris Sud International Research Chair (France). Joanna received a PhD from the University of Toronto in 2002, an MSc from UBC in 1996, and a BSc from Western University in 1993, all in Computer Science. Her broad research area is Human Computer Interaction (HCI), with a specialization in interface personalization, universal usability, assistive technology, and computer supported cooperative work.
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- Assistant Professor at the UBC ISchool
- Information School
Julia Bullard is an Assistant Professor at the UBC iSchool (Library, Archival and Information Studies) where she examines how communities instantiate their values in infrastructure, particularly through the design of knowledge organization systems. She holds a PhD in Information Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, an MLIS from the UBC iSchool, and an MA in Cultural Studies & Critical Theory from McMaster University.
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- Electrical & Computer Engineering / 2017 Cohort
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- Chairman
- Director
- Executive
- Instructor
- Computer Science
- Professor in Computer Science at UBC
Karon MacLean is Professor in Computer Science at UBC, with degrees in Biology and Mechanical Engineering (BSc, Stanford; M.Sc. / Ph.D, MIT) and time spent as a professional robotics engineer (Center for Engineering Design, University of Utah) and haptics / interaction researcher (Interval Research, Palo Alto). She has been at UBC since 2000. MacLean's research specializes in haptic (touch) interaction: cognitive, sensory and affective design for people interacting with the computation we touch, emote and move with and learn from, from robots to touchscreens and the situated environment. MacLean leads UBC's Designing for People interdisciplinary research cluster and CREATE graduate training program (20 researchers spanning 8 departments and 4 faculties - dfp.ubc.ca), and is Special Advisor, Innovation and Knowledge Mobilization to UBC's Faculty of Science.
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- Computer Science
- Computer Science / 2020 Cohort
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- Computer Science / Website
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- Computer Science
- Computer Science / 2019 Cohort
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- Biomedical Engineering / 2021 Cohort
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- Information School / 2020 Cohort
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- Computer Science / Pre - Cohort
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- Information School / 2022 Cohort
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- Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Professor at the Department of Electrical
Konstantin (Kosta) Beznosov is a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, where he directs the Laboratory for Education and Research in Secure Systems Engineering. Prior UBC, he was a Security Architect at Hitachi Computer Products (America) and Concept Five. Besides many academic papers on security engineering in distributed systems, he is also a co-author of "Enterprise Security with EJB and CORBA" and "Mastering Web Services Security" books, as well as XACML and several CORBA security specifications. He has served on program committees and/or helped to organize SOUPS, CCS, NSPW, NDSS, ACSAC, SACMAT, CHIMIT. Prof. Beznosov is an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC) and International Journal of Secure Software Engineering (IJSSE).
Professor Beznosov is also the Founder and Director of the Laboratory for Education and Research in Secure Systems Engineering (LERSSE), where researchers look at topics such as network security and secure software.
Kristen Haase, RN PhD (she/her/hers) is an Assistant Professor at the School of Nursing at UBC and an affiliated researcher in the Fraser Health Authority. She has her BN from the University of Lethbridge; MA in Women and Gender Studies from Saint Mary's University; and her PhD in Nursing from the University of Ottawa.
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- Computer Science
- Computer Science / Pre - Cohort
Designing for People Research Network
Vancouver, Canada
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Professor Currie studies computerized clinical decision support systems in healthcare with a focus on user-centered design processes for healthcare providers and patients in hospitals, community/homecare, and global settings.
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- Computer Science / Postdoc
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- Information School
- Information School / 2018 Cohort
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- Associate Professor and Coordinator of the First Nations Curriculum Concentration at the University of British Columbia 's ISchool
- Information School
Lisa Nathan is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the First Nations Curriculum Concentration at the University of British Columbia's iSchool (School of Library, Archival and Information Studies). Through a range of collaborative projects Lisa strives to (re)imagine and (re)design information practices, ways of stewarding information, to address long-term challenges (e.g. social justice, environmental resilience). Lisa lives and works on the traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam).
Research Interests
I started working in the area of collections related to traumatic events in 2008 when I co-founded the Voices from the Rwanda Tribunal project at the University of Washington. We conducted video interviews with personnel from the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, asking them to share their insights related to the ideals of justice and reconciliation. The focus of this work was the design of an information system that would enable multiple generations to engage with the videos in meaningful ways. If you have questions about what ‘meaningful' means, you may be interested in my work.
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- Associate Professor and Director of the UBC ISchool
- CREATE Co - Director
- Information School
Luanne Sinnamon is an Associate Professor and Director of the UBC iSchool (Library, Archival and Information Studies). She holds graduate degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. Dr. Sinnamon's research and teaching focuses on information retrieval, human information interaction, and open data. She has published 60 peer-reviewed publications and her work has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Network of Centres of Excellence. In addition to serving as iSchool Director since 2015, Dr. Sinnamon currently serves as an Associate Editor for Information Processing & Management and is a Program Committee member for major information retrieval conferences, including SIGIR, CIKM and CHIIR. She is an active member of ALISE and ASIS&T.
Research Interests
Human information interaction and information retrieval
Digital reading, information seeking and learning
Contextual and task-based approaches to information access
Digital document genres
H.F. Machiel Van der Loos, Ph.D., P.Eng, is Associate Professor and Associate Head - External, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at the University of British Columbia. He received a Diplôme d'Ingénieur from the EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland (1978), and a PhD from Stanford University (1992) in human-robot interaction. As Director of the CARIS Lab at UBC, he conducts research in rehabilitation robotics, roboethics, design methodology, and industry-focused human-robot interaction. He has more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, 100 conference papers and 4 book chapters across these subjects, and is Associate Editor for the Journal "Assistive Technology". Dr. Van der Loos primarily teaches in core design courses, notably the Capstone Design Project course for the department and the "Designing for People" project course across Computer Science, Applied Science and the iSchool. He was the general chair of the IEEE ICORR conference in 2013 the Design Society's ICED17 conference held at UBC in 2017. Professor Van der Loos is the director of the CARIS Lab and conducts research in design methodology and rehabilitation applications of robotics and roboethics.
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- Computer Science / 2021 Cohort
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- Information School
- Information School / 2019 Cohort
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- Population & Public Health / Website
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- Computer Science
- Computer Science / Pre - Cohort
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- Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Matthias Görges co-leads the Pediatric Anesthesia Research Team and the Digital Health Innovation Lab at BC Children's Hospital Research Institute. He received his MSc degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg, Germany, and his PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA. Subsequently, he completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia, where he is currently an Associate Professor (Partner) in the Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology, & Therapeutics. Matthias undertakes trans-disciplinary research with a team of engineers, computer scientists, and health care providers, focusing on the development and application of new technologies primarily in pediatric anesthesia and intensive care.
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- Biomedical Engineering / 2021 Cohort
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- Computer Science / 2022 Cohort
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- Computer Science
- Computer Science / 2017 Cohort
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- Computer Science / 2020 Cohort
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- Computer Science / 2019 Cohort
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- Computer Science / 2018 Cohort
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- Computer Science
- Computer Science / 2021 Cohort
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- Information School
- Information School / 2018 Cohort
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- Physical Therapist
- Associate Professor, Physical Therapy
Dr. Virji-Babul is a Neuroscientist and a physical therapist. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Physical Therapy, UBC. Her laboratory is based at the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health. Her research addresses fundamental aspects of brain-behavior relationships in typical and atypical development. Over the past decade, she has adopted a cognitive neuroscience framework using a variety of neuroimaging tools, from magnetoencephalography (MEG) and high-density electroencephalography (EEG), to diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), to unravel and examine the structural and functional brain networks underlying perception and action. This work has resulted in over 70 peer-reviewed papers in the area of neuroimaging, brain dynamics and perceptual-motor function in typical development, atypical development and in adolescents with concussion/mild traumatic brain injury.
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- Computer Science / Pre - Cohort
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- Computer Science / 2020 Cohort
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- Computer Science
- Computer Science / Pre - Cohort
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- Computer Science / Website
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- Computer Science
- Computer Science / 2020 Cohort
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- Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia
- Computer Science
Rachel Pottinger an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. She received her PhD in computer science from the University of Washington in 2004. Her main research interest is data management, particularly semantic data integration, how to manage metadata, how to manage data that is currently not well supported by databases, and how to make data easier to understand and explore.
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor, Psychology
Rebecca (Beck) Todd is an Associate Professor in the UBC Department of Psychology and a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Fellow. Cognitive Neuroscience is her second career - she has a Master's degree in Dance from UCLA and worked as a contemporary choreographer and dance writer for a number of years. She subsequently received a PhD in Developmental Science and Neuroscience from University of Toronto, and post-doctoral training in cognitive neuroscience at the Rotman Research Institute and University of Toronto. Her research program focuses on neurocognitive processes underlying the interaction between human emotion and cognition in health and in pathology. It employs brain imaging methods and laboratory experiments to investigate how we process the affective salience, or emotional/motivational importance, of objects and events around us, and how such affective salience influences what we see, how we learn, and what we remember. It also focuses on individual differences in how we filter the world so that we are more likely to perceive specific categories of salient event (e.g., threatening vs. rewarding), and how such filters develop over time and influence behaviour, with major consequences for emotional health and wellbeing.
Research Interests
Emotion, and our history of emotional associations with things in the world, guide our attention, what we learn, and what we remember as well as the decisions we make. My research in cognitive neuroscience focuses on how emotional experience comes to guide these cognitive processes as we interact with the world, and the brain systems that are involved, in relatively healthy populations with those with mood disorders. Here I am interested in how design of technology can be optimized by taking into account the ways in which such affect-biased cognition drives behaviour in general, and how it may differ depending on individual experience.
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- Computer Science
- Computer Science / 2023 Cohort
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- Information School / 2019 Cohort
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- Biomedical Engineering / 2022 Cohort
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- Computer Science
- Computer Science / 2020 Cohort
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- Computer Science / 2022 Cohort
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- Computer Science
- Computer Science / Postdoc
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- Biomedical Engineering / 2022 Cohort
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- Information School
- Information School / Pre - Cohort
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- Computer Science
- Computer Science / 2019 Cohort
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- Computer Science
- Computer Science / 2017 Cohort
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- Civil Engineering
- Professor
Dr. Staub-French is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering. She received her BS in Civil Engineering from Santa Clara University and her MS and PhD from Stanford University. She has over 15 years of consulting and research experience studying the technological and organizational issues of Building Information Modeling (BIM) implementation. She is actively engaged with industry to advance BIM adoption, currently serving as a member of the Education Committee and the Technical Advisory Board of BuildingSMART Canada.
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- Electrical & Computer Engineering
Sid Fels: (Prof, ECE, British Columbia, 1998-); PhD (CS, Toronto, 1994); MSc (CS, Toronto 1994); BASc (EE, Waterloo, 1988): Sid is a Distinguished University Scholar at UBC (2004-). He was a visiting researcher at ATR Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan (1996-1997). He worked at Virtual Technologies Inc. in CA(1995). He is internationally known for his work in human-computer interaction, biomechanical modeling, neural networks, new interfaces for musical expression and interactive arts with over 300 scholarly publications.
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- Computer Science
- Computer Science / 2017 Cohort
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- Occupational Therapist
- Assistant Professor, Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy
Stephanie is an occupational therapist whose clinical work centred in pediatrics. Her passion for evidence-informed practice led her to work with the Evidence Centre at Sunny Hill Health Centre at BC Children's Hospital as a knowledge broker, facilitating the use of best evidence among clinicians, leaders, and students. She has a particular interest in digital health and interactive technologies, such as virtual reality and serious games for rehabilitation. Her work also considers the impact of social influences on change initiatives.
Research Interests
Dr. Glegg's program of research focuses on knowledge translation and implementation science - examining the factors that influence the exchange and use of knowledge to improve health care services, systems and outcomes, and testing the effectiveness of tailored interventions to facilitate change. Examples of applications of her mixed methods approaches include the study of technology adoption for rehabilitation, longitudinal monitoring of the implementation and scale up of addiction treatment and harm reduction strategies to address the toxic drug poisoning crisis, and the use of social network analysis to examine the patterns of social connections among individuals, organizations and groups and how they influence or can be targeted to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of knowledge sharing and uptake of best practices.
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- Computer Science
- Computer Science / 2018 Cohort
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- Computer Science
- Professor at the University of British Columbia Department of Computer Science
Tamara Munzner is a professor at the University of British Columbia Department of Computer Science, and has been active in visualization since 1991. She was a research scientist from 2000 to 2002 at the Compaq Systems Research Center (the former DEC SRC), and earned her PhD from Stanford between 1995 and 2000. She was a technical staff member at the National Science Foundation Research Center for Computation and Visualization of Geometric Structures (The Geometry Center) at the University of Minnesota from 1991 to 1995. She has published over sixty-five papers, and co-chaired InfoVis and EuroVis. Her book Visualization Analysis and Design appeared in 2014, and she received the IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Achievement Award in 2015. She served on the InfoVis Steering Committee 2010-2017, as chair of the VIS Executive Committee 2012-2017, and was a founding member of the BioVis Steering Committee 2012-2013. She is the editor of the AK Peters Visualization series with CRC Press. She has consulted for or collaborated with many companies including Agilent, AT&T Labs, Google, Microsoft, Silicon Graphics, and early-stage startups.
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- Computer Science
- Computer Science / 2017 Cohort
Tim is a developmental pediatrician studying how early social experience (prenatal maternal mental illness and psychotropic medication exposure) influences the developmental origins of stress and self-regulation and its impact on thinking, learning and behaviour during childhood.
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- Computer Science
- Computer Science / 2022 Cohort
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- Computer Science
- Computer Science / 2020 Cohort
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- Information School / 2017 Cohort
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- Computer Science / 2022 Cohort
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- Computer Science / Website
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- Information School / 2019 Cohort
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- Computer Science / 2021 Cohort
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- Computer Science / 2021 Cohort
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- Computer Science / 2017 Cohort
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- Information School
- Information School / 2022 Cohort
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- Electrical & Computer Engineering / 2017 Cohort
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- Information School
- Information School / 2023 Cohort
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- Information School
- Information School / 2019 Cohort