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Sonja Bonar
Primary Supervisor - Claire Davies

Faculty of Health Sciences
Queen's University

Areas of Interests

Augmentative and alternative communication systems, Brain-computer interfaces, Language production

PhD

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Haoran Chang
Primary Supervisor - Patricio Dávila

School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
York University

Areas of Interests

Game Studies, Health Humanities in XR, Media Studies and Narrative in Neuroscience

PhD

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Remy Cohan
Primary Supervisor - Jennifer Steeves

Faculty of Health
York University

Areas of Interests

Computational neuroscience, Neuroplasticity, Systems Neuroscience

PhD

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Mario Constantino
Primary Supervisor - Erez Freud

Faculty of Health
York University

Areas of Interests

Neuropsychology, Visual and Cognitive Development, Visuomotor Control

Masters

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Jonathan Coutinho
Primary Supervisor - Susan Boehnke

Faculty of Health Sciences
Queen's University

Areas of Interests

Ethics, Neurotechnology, Policy/Law

Postdoctoral

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Sebastian D'Amario
Primary Supervisor - Douglas J. Cook

Faculty of Health Sciences
Queen's University

Areas of Interests

Neuroimaging, Sensorimotor learning and control, Traumatic brain injury

PhD

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Alex de las Heras
Primary Supervisor - Laura Levin

School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
York University

Areas of Interests

Community Engagement and Inclusivity, Peacebuilding and Post Conflict Futures, Technology and Research Creation

Postdoctoral

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Jaspreet Dodd
Primary Supervisor - Gunnar Blohm

Faculty of Arts & Science
Queen's University

Areas of Interests

Brain-computer interfaces, Computational neuroscience, Pupil Dynamics

Masters

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Amir Eskandari Khordebolagh
Primary Supervisor - Farhana Zulkernine

Faculty of Arts & Science
Queen's University

Areas of Interests

Graph machine learning, Human-machine communication, Large language models

PhD

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Chigozie Ezulike
Primary Supervisor - Michael Kalu

Faculty of Health Sciences
York University

Areas of Interests

Family Caregiving, Gerontechnology, Healthy Ageing

Postdoctoral

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Andrew Fisher
Primary Supervisor - Vijay Mago

Faculty of Health
York University

Areas of Interests

AI, Community health, Large language models

Postdoctoral

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William Fisher
Primary Supervisor - Buddhika Bellana

Faculty of Health
York University

Areas of Interests

Cognitive neuroscience, Episodic memory, Naturalistic research approaches

Masters

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Frederic Fu
Primary Supervisor - Vijay Mago

Faculty of Health
York University

Areas of Interests

Neurological and Mental Health, Public Health, Statistical Research

Postdoctoral

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Petros Georgiadis
Primary Supervisor - Doug Crawford

Faculty of Science
York University

Areas of Interests

Brain-machine Interface, Systems Neuroscience, Visuomotor Control

PhD

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Laurel Green
Primary Supervisor - Laura Levin

School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
York University

Areas of Interests

Creative technologies, Game Design, Immersive/Participatory Performance

PhD

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Maede Hasanpour
Primary Supervisor - Pouya Amiri

Faculty of Health Sciences
Queen's University

Areas of Interests

ACL Injuries, Neuromuscular Biomechanics, Neurorehabilitation

PhD

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Jordyn Heron
Primary Supervisor - Jennifer Steeves

Faculty of Health
York University

Areas of Interests

Cognitive neuroscience, Gender Differences in Cognition, Neuroimaging

Masters

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Sileshi Hirko
Primary Supervisor - Teshager Dagne

Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
York University

Areas of Interests

Innovation, Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Regulation of Emerging Technologies

Postdoctoral

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Kaitlyn Hoesterey
Primary Supervisor - Gunnar Blohm

Faculty of Health Sciences
Queen's University

Areas of Interests

Artificial Neural Networks, Neurorobotics, Systems Neuroscience

PhD

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Hooman Hoghooghi Esfahani
Primary Supervisor - Kiemute Oyibo

Lassonde School of Engineering
York University

Areas of Interests

AI, Digital health, Persuasive technology

PhD

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Tasha Ignatius
Primary Supervisor - Gerome Manson

Faculty of Arts & Science
Queen's University

Areas of Interests

Learning, Memory, Movement

Masters

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Ehsan Jafari
Primary Supervisor - Pouya Amiri

Faculty of Health Sciences
Queen's University

Areas of Interests

Biological Signal Processing, Functional electrical stimulation, Neurorehabilitation

Postdoctoral

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Fatemeh Jalali
Primary Supervisor - Pouya Amiri

Faculty of Health Sciences
Queen's University

Areas of Interests

Dynamic Force Modeling, Human Biomechanics, Neurorehabilitation Enhancement

PhD

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Erika Johannessen
Primary Supervisor - Paul Hungler

Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science
Queen's University

Areas of Interests

Cognitive Load in Learning, Competency-Based Medicine and Education, Wearable Sensors and Real-Time Monitoring

PhD

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Rohan Faiyaz Khan
Primary Supervisor - Catherine Stinson

Faculty of Arts & Science
Queen's University

Areas of Interests

AI ethics, Biomedical imaging

PhD

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Andrew King
Primary Supervisor - Denise Henriques

Faculty of Health
York University

Areas of Interests

Cognitive neuroscience, Human-computer interaction, Motor learning

PhD

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L. Maureen Krelove
Primary Supervisor - George Mochizuki

Faculty of Health
York University

Areas of Interests

Ageing, Dynamic Motor Control, Functional Neuroimaging

Masters

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Peace Kumapayi
Primary Supervisor - Michael Kalu

Faculty of Health
York University

Areas of Interests

AI, Mobility Devices, Older Adults, Visible Minority

Masters

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Safiyya LaForest
Primary Supervisor - Dale Stevens

Faculty of Health
York University

Areas of Interests

Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurocognitive Development, Neuroimaging

Masters

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Trinity Leon
Primary Supervisor - Shital Desai

School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
York University

Areas of Interests

Design strategy, Human-computer interaction, Inclusive design

Masters

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Jing Li
Primary Supervisor - Manos Papagelis

Lassonde School of Engineering
York University

Areas of Interests

Big data analytics, Graph mining, Machine learning

PhD

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Chengyuan Liang
Primary Supervisor - Kean Birch

Faculty of Science
York University

Areas of Interests

AI Copyright, Ethical AI Governance, Personal Privacy Protection

PhD

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Jacob Morra
Primary Supervisor - James Elder

Lassonde School of Engineering
York University

Areas of Interests

Brain-computer interfaces, Computational neuroscience, NeuroAI

Postdoctoral

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Kate Moses
Primary Supervisor - Gerome Manson

Faculty of Health Sciences
Queen's University

Areas of Interests

Neuromechanics, Rehabilitation, Sensorimotor Learning

Masters

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Somang Nam
Primary Supervisor - Shital Desai

School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
York University

Areas of Interests

Accessibility, Applied artificial intelligence, Human-computer interaction

Postdoctoral

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Shadi Nasseri
Primary Supervisor - Pina D’Agostino

Osgoode Hall Law School
York University

Areas of Interests

TBD

PhD

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Ryley Nathaniel
Primary Supervisor - Liya Ma

Faculty of Health
York University

Areas of Interests

Behavioural neuroscience, Cognitive neuroscience, Neurophysiology

Masters

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Amirreza Naziri
Primary Supervisor - Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari

Lassonde School of Engineering
York University

Areas of Interests

AI in drug discovery, Bioinformatics, Generative AI

Masters

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Reshma Nuri
Primary Supervisor - Catherine Donnelly

Faculty of Health Sciences
Queen's University

Areas of Interests

Disability and Access to Services, Influence of Social Support on Health/Wellbeing/Community Participation, Public Policy

Postdoctoral

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Chukwuebuka Onyekere
Primary Supervisor - Michael Kalu

Faculty of Health Sciences
York University

Areas of Interests

Artificial Intelligence, Mobility Among Older Adults, Social Interaction

PhD

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Kathrin Pabst
Primary Supervisor - Doug Crawford

Faculty of Health
York University

Areas of Interests

Computational Neuroethology, Navigation, Neural Networks and Machine Learning

Postdoctoral

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Lina Pinto-García
Primary Supervisor - Danielle Elliott

Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
York University

Areas of Interests

Armed conflict, Memory, Society

Postdoctoral

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Elham Reyhanianmotehaver
Primary Supervisor - Claire Davies

Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science
Queen's University

Areas of Interests

TBD

PhD

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Bryan Joel Rivera Calagua
Primary Supervisor - Pouya Amiri

Faculty of Arts & Science
Queen's University

Areas of Interests

TBD

PhD

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Anthony Sangiuliano
Primary Supervisor - Regina Rini

Faculty of Arts & Science
York University

Areas of Interests

Antidiscrimination law, Ethics of AI

Postdoctoral

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Michael Sherbert
Primary Supervisor - Tracy Trothen

Faculty of Arts & Science
Queen's University

Areas of Interests

Indigenous philosophies, intersections between religion culture & technology, transhumanism/posthumanism & artificial intelligence

Postdoctoral

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Shabnam Sukhdev
Primary Supervisor - Mary Bunch

School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
York University

Areas of Interests

Digital Storytelling and Autoethnogrophy, Generative AI and research creation, Performance and Audience Participation, Theatre

PhD

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Jing Tao
Primary Supervisor - Farhana Zulkernine

Faculty of Arts & Science
Queen's University

Areas of Interests

Machine learning, Medical text analytics, Natural language processing

Masters

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Dariush Valipour Hafshejani
Primary Supervisor - Hossein Kassiri

Lassonde School of Engineering
York University

Areas of Interests

Brain-inspired Computing, Integrated Circuits, Neural Hardware Accelerators

Masters

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Nardeen Yalda
Primary Supervisor - Shayna Rosenbaum

Faculty of Health
York University

Areas of Interests

Clinical Neuropsychology, Cognitive Aging, Cognitive neuroscience

Masters