Michelle Lindsay (September 29th)
As Associate Director, Research Agreements & Intellectual Property, Michelle Lindsay is responsible for the Research Agreements team at the Office of Research Services. The ORS manages the negotiation of terms of research agreements, including intellectual property, and works on a daily basis with various levels of government, and both public and private sponsors. In addition to providing an industry liaison function at York, Michelle manages the university's patent portfolio and works with researchers to develop and commercialize new intellectual property, as well as liaising with York's commercialization partners, York Biotech and the Innovation and Synergy Centre of Markham. Michelle represents York as a member of the Ontario Society for Excellence in Technology Transfer, the Alliance for the Commercialization of Canadian Technology, the Association of University Technology Managers and the Canadian Association of University Research Administrators.
Before joining the Office of Research Services at York, Michelle worked as Contracts Manager at the University of Guelph, negotiating research contract and intellectual property terms, as well as managing the Contracts team. She has experience working with a wide range of business issues related to risk management, as well as intellectual property management in the private sector.
CSE63044 : Kris (Yehua) Chen
CS262030 : Hua Lu
CSE73004 : Youxing Yuan
CSE73225 : Hongqing Lin
CSE73128 : Licong Tang
CS261031 : Simon Cen
Matt Robinson (October 8th)
Matt Robinson is currently the manger of Linux Technology at Transgaming Inc. A Canadian company that focuses on video game portability. This means he is in charge of taking PC games and converting them to a format that can be used on Linux computers.
Shamual Chawdhury CSE73101
Sean Green CSE82019
Hammad Naseem CSE81039
Saurabh Bhardwaj CSE73174
Artine Artine CS243166
Gagendeep Sherma CSE73188
George Lautenschlager CSE73100
Peter Rowley (October 22nd)
Peter Rowley is the director of information systems at York U. He is in charge of things like Passport York and several other applications on the York U website. He talked about identity theft and how to prevent it.
Aimen Khan cse81028
Terrence Whittingham cse 73164
Mordy Adler cse73180
Khaled Said cse252009
Seema ZIa cse73027
Chetah Sutrisno cse82018
Reham Buder (Has not gotten her cse account)
Igor Sverdlik cse71027
Piotr Jasiobedzki (November 12th)
Dr Piotr Jasiobedzki is a Staff Scientist at MDA, (formerly Spar Space Systems), in Brampton ON, where he leads projects on advanced vision systems for space and terrestrial applications. Before joining MDA in 1995, he was employed by the University of Toronto and University of Manchester (UK). Piotr has received his Ph.D. in computer vision and robotics and his expertise includes 3D vision, sensor fusion, robot control and navigation. He has published over 50 technical papers and has two patents.
1. Mikhail Veprinskiy - cse73021
2. Victor Ivri - cse72002
3. Edvin vito - cse73070
4. Dmitry Drinfeld - cse73069
5. Rubin Yoo (NOTE: registered as Sung Hoon Yoo) - cse73081
6. Gil Yehudaiff - cse73014
7. Raymond Su - cse71013
8. Faizan Qazi - cse73117
Rick Wildes (November 17th)
Professor Wildes is currently an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering Centre for Vision Research as well as the director of the Graduate Programme at York University. He earned his Ph.D. at MIT in 1989 in the field of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
cs253192 - Christopher Prevoe
cs253080 - Michael Oetlinger
cs261073 - Jananeh Asari
cs261001 - Robert Chen
cse93222 - Adam Russell
cse81021 - Osamede Eke
Heather Jenkin (November 19th)
Heather Jenkin graduated in 1999 with a Doctorate in Developmental and Cognitive Processes from York University. Subsequently she has been a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the area of Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science at the Centre for Vision Research. She has published in the areas of visual and inter sensory perception. Her current research focus is orientation judgements under unusual environmental conditions such as altered gravity (parabolic flights or on the ISS) and underwater. She is also a contract faculty member in the Psychology Department here at York, teaching a variety of courses.
Sandeep S Gainda cse63153
Vahid Bahreman cse71028
Ashur Cherry cse82020
Rana Sarsam cse63201
Marina D Jungblut cse81076
Ang Heng cse63117
Noada Lugaj cse83078
Adam Cole & Dan Eng (November 26th)
Adam Cole has fifteen years of experience managing successful healthcare IT projects. Cole's projects have won international awards including first place in the annual Kinetic Process Innovation Awards and receiving a Computer World Smithsonian Honors Laureate via a nomination by Michael Cappellas, President of Compaq Computers.
Cole's solutions have been commercially distributed to hospitals across Canada and featured in the mainstream media including the Toronto Star and primetime Global TV. Recently Cole has been CIO of Phase 4 Health, a national life sciences company and Director of Specialty Technology Solutions at McKesson, a Fortune 15 company and the world's leading healthcare supply management and information technology company.
At McKesson Adam's department twice won project of the year (in innovation and financial contribution) and scored 100% on the Customer Satisfaction Survey, a first in McKesson history. Previously through his own consulting company of 15+ professionals Mr. Cole has managed projects for Canada's largest healthcare organizations. Cole regularly writes for and is called on by the media. Mr. Cole is a graduate in Math from the University of Waterloo and is currently completing an EMBA from the University of Fredericton. Cole has been actively involved in CIPS for several years. Toronto is home to Adam where he lives
with his two wonderful daughters and wife.
Dan is returning as a member of CIPS having been active some 5 years ago. He is a past president of the Toronto Section having also managed the Media Relations function and the CIPS across Canada publication. Members may remember him in his role as Security SIG co-chair as well for his activities in the Organizing Committee for the International Federation Information Processing Section 11 Security Conference. Dan is working with the Toronto Board of Trade - Information Communication Technology (ICT) Toronto which has the
mission of making the GTA, the 5th largest technology cluster in the world. He is currently very active in helping New Canadians in finding IT jobs.
Dan has almost thirty years of experience in all aspects of computing. As well as being familiar with operating an IBM 519 Mark Sense Reader, manning the computer console for an IBM 370 mainframe, he has held a number of project management positions. Needless to say, Dan enjoys rolling up his sleeves and debugging program code. Perhaps Dan enjoyed his time as a part-time Continuing Education Instructor the most because it gave him a chance to see what was possible with highly motivated students.
Dan has also received his ISP designation. Dan is currently engaged in a number of technology startups.
Education
Graduating from the University of Toronto in Computer Science, he went on to complete his MBA part-time at the same school. He continues to be a strong supporter and believer in the Rotman Business School concept of lifelong learning and integrative thinking.
Lester (Lei Han) cse83064@cse.yorku.ca
Ryan Ramsaran cse73112@cse.yorku.ca
Albert VanderMeulen cse93155@cse.yorku.ca
Isaac cse73171@cse.yorku.ca
Chris cse81032@cse.yorku.ca
Drorit drorit@gmail.com(doesn't have a cse account yet).