Pina D'Agostino (Osgoode Hall Law School)
Pina D’Agostino is a law professor, lawyer, public speaker, board director, Tier 1 York Research Chair in Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence & Emerging Technologies, Scientific Director, Connected Minds: Neural & Machine Systems for a Healthy, Just Society and recognized international scholar at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University specializing in intellectual property (IP), technology and innovation law and policy.
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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:
Peter Park, 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
Members of the CAIS Inaugural Advisory Board: (listed alphabetically by last name):
Johanne Bélisle Innovation Policy Advisor, formerly at World Intellectual Property Organization, & Former CEO, Canadian Intellectual Property Office
Casey Chisick Partner and Chair, Intellectual Property and Entertainment, Media & Sports Law, Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
Sven Dickinson Vice President/Head Samsung AI Research Center & Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Konstantinos Georgaras Commissioner of Patents, Registrar of Trademarks and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office
Uma Gopinath Chief Information Officer, Metrolinx
Nadine Letson Head of Corporate, External and Legal Affairs, Microsoft Canada
Aaron Rezaei Chief Executive Officer at STIM Canada Inc & General Partner, Archangel Network of FUNDS
Allison Sekuler Sandra A Rotman Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience, Rotman Research Institute; President & Chief Scientist, Baycrest Academy for Research and Education; President & Chief Scientist, Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation; Professor, Psychology, University of Toronto, Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University
Altaf Stationwala President and CEO, Mackenzie Health
Elissa Strome Executive Director, Pan-Canadian AI Strategy, CIFAR
Graham Taylor Faculty Member & Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Vector Institute for AI; Academic Director, Next AI; Professor & Canada Research Chair, School of Engineering, University of Guelph
Julia Zhu Executive Vice President and Chief Digital & Innovation Officer, Alectra Utilities
Yves Lesperance (Emeritus)
Ghadeer Abuoda, Postdoctoral
Saba Asaad, Postdoctoral
Saghar Bagheri, Graduate Student
Siavash Barqi Janiar, Graduate Student
Muhammad Bilal, Graduate Student
Arian Boukani, Graduate Student
Niels Bracher, Graduate Student
Guilherme Cavalcante Silva, Graduate Student
Kathleen Cherrington, Graduate Student
Hamidreza Dastmalchi, Graduate Student
Viet Ho Tam Thuc Do, Graduate Student
Amin Fadaeinejad, Graduate Student
Ali Faraji, Graduate Student
Mary Hegedus, Graduate Student
Danial Kordmodanlou, Graduate Student
Zahra Hosseini, Graduate Student
Haoqi Huang, Graduate Student
Matthew Kowal, 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
Simon Wallace, Graduate Student
Junfei Wang, Graduate Student
Kasun Weerasinghe, Graduate Student
To request membership, please complete the form found here: CAIS Membership Application Form
Membership Categories:
There are three categories of CAIS membership:
Faculty Members. These are research-stream faculty at any campus of York University who are actively engaged in AI-related research.
Associate Faculty Members. These are research- or teaching-stream faculty at any campus of York University who are interested in AI-related research and would like to stay abreast of CAIS developments and participate in some CAIS events.
Trainee Members. These are graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who are actively engaged in AI-related research. While they will typically be supervised by a CAIS member, this is not a requirement of membership.
Members apply with an online form. Applicants are admitted if they meet the criteria above. This is decided by the Co-Directors for Associate Faculty and Trainee Member applicants, and by the CAIS Executive for Faculty Member applicants.
Faculty Members are required to contribute to CAIS activities, including committees and events, and to complete annual reports.