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Pina D'Agostino (Osgoode Hall Law School)

Pina D’Agostino is a law professor, lawyer, public speaker, board director and recognized international scholar at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University specializing in intellectual property (IP), technology and innovation law and policy. 

James Elder (Lassonde, Health)

James Elder is Professor and York Research Chair in Human and Computer Vision, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (LSE), Department of Psychology (Health) and Co-Director of the Centre for AI & Society (CAIS) at York University, Toronto, Canada.  Dr. Elder’s research seeks to improve machine vision systems through a better understanding of visual processing in biological systems.  Dr. Elder currently leads the ORF-RE project Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Urban Mobility.  He holds a number of patents on attentive vision technologies and is the co-founder of the AI start-up AttentiveVision.  He is appointed to the Editorial Boards of three international journals.

Pina D'Agostino (Osgoode Hall Law School) Lead, Law, Governance and Public Policy

James Elder (Lassonde, Health) Lead, Intelligent Systems

Shayna Rosenbaum (Health) Lead, Health Applications

Pirathayini Srikantha (Lassonde) Lead, Smart Cities

Aijun An (Lassonde) Chair, Partnerships Committee

Marcus Brubaker (Lassonde) Chair, Facilities Committee

Murat Kristal (Schulich) Chair, Commercialization and Entrepreneurship Committee

Marin Litoiu (LA&PS, Lassonde) Chair, Markham Campus Committee

Ian Stedman (LA&PS) Chair, Public Relations Committee

Kosta Derpanis (Lassonde) Public Relations & Seminars & Conferences Committee

Niko Troje (Science) Chair, Seminars & Conferences Committee

Patricio Dávila (Arts,Media,Performance & Design) Seminars & Conferences Committee

Jonathan Obar (LA&PS) Seminars & Conferences Committee

Usman Khan (Lassonde) Training & Recruitment Committee

Chair: 

Amir Asif, Vice-President, Research & Innovation

Vice-Chair: 

Magdalena Krol, Associate Dean, Research & Graduate Studies, Lassonde School of Engineering

Board:

Sara Slinn, Associate Dean, Research & Institutional Relations, Osgoode Hall Law School

Ravi de Costa, Associate Dean, Research & Graduate Studies, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

Vivian Saridakis, Associate Dean, Research & Graduate Education, Faculty of Science

Chris Ardern, Associate Dean, Research, Faculty of Health

Dirk Matten, Associate Dean, Research, Schulich School of Business

Laura Levin, Associate Dean, Research, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design

  • Ghadeer Abuoda, Postdoctoral
  • Saba Asaad, Postdoctoral
  • Saghar Bagheri, Graduate Student
  • Siavash Barqi Janiar, Graduate Student
  • Muhammad Bilal, Graduate Student
  • Arian Boukani, Graduate Student
  • Guilherme Cavalcante Silva, Graduate Student
  • Hamidreza Dastmalchi, Graduate Student
  • Ali Faraji, Graduate Student
  • Mary Hegedus, Graduate Student
  • Zahra Hosseini, Graduate Student
  • Haoqi Huang, Graduate Student
  • Andrea Lachmansingh, Graduate Student
  • Yinghang Ma, Graduate Student
  • Anton Machula, Graduate Student
  • Jasmine Madaan, Graduate Student
  • Mohammadhossein Naderi, Graduate Student
  • Amirhossein Nadiri, Graduate Student
  • Amir Mohammad Naeini, Graduate Student
  • Shadi Nasseri, Graduate Student
  • Dorsa Nazari, Graduate Student
  • Tim Nicodemo, Graduate Student
  • Farnaz Niknia, Graduate Student
  • Mykelle Pacquing, Graduate Student
  • Sara Richards, Graduate Student
  • Anthony Sangiuliano, Postdoctoral
  • Melika Sepidband, Graduate Student
  • Jiho Shin, Graduate Student
  • Omid Shakiba, Graduate Student
  • Shabnam Sukhdev, Graduate Student
  • Hamed Taherkhani, Graduate Student
  • Mohammadali Tofighi, Postdoctoral
  • Junfei Wang, Graduate Student
  • Kasun Weerasinghe, Graduate Student


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