2008 Precarn Scholars 

Media Release:
Precarn Announces Funding for Graduate Students at Universities Across Canada, November 8, 2007

UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA

Maria Cutumisu

• Autonomous Agents (Supervisor:  Prof. Duane Szafron)

Adam Rachmielowski

• Telerobotic Vision (Supervisor:  Prof. Martin Jagersand)
  

UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

Mark Crowley

• Knowledge Representation (Supervisor: Prof. David Poole)

Julian Guerrero

• Medical Imaging (Supervisor: Prof. Tim Salcudean)

Hendrik Kueck

• Knowledge-based Systems (Supervisor:  Prof. Nando de Freitas)

Hongrae Lee

• Data Mining (Supervisor:  Prof. Raymond Ng)

Wei-Lwun Lu

• 3D Mapping (Supervisor:  Prof. James Little)

Ricardo Pedrosa

• Haptic Controllers (Supervisor:  Prof. Karon Maclean)

Diego Prananta

• Medical Robotics (Supervisor:  Prof. Robert Rohling)

Changsong Shen

• Computer Vision (Supervisor:  Prof. Sidney Fels)

Pooja Viswanathan

• Assistive Technologies (Supervisor:  Prof. Alan Mackworth)
  

UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY

Tyson Kendon

• Knowledge-based Systems (Supervisor:  Prof. Jörg Denzinger)
  

CARLETON UNIVERSITY 

Shafagh Jafer

• Biomedical Applications (Supervisor:  Prof. Gabriel Wainer)
  

CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY

Roozbeh Ahmadi

• Medical Robotics (Supervisor:  Prof. Javad Dargahi)
  

DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY

Peter Lichodzijewski

• Knowledge-based Software (Supervisor:  Prof. Malcolm Heywood)

Mahdi Shafiei

• Data Mining (Supervisor:  Prof. Evangelos Milios)
  

UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL

Frédéric Jean

• Human Kinematics (Supervisor:  Prof. Robert Bergevin)

Philippe Lambert

• Computer Vision (Supervisor:  Prof. Patrick Hébert)

Nicolas Martel-Brisson

• Computer Vision (Supervisor:  Prof. André Zaccarin)

Sebastien Quirion

• Automated Learning (Supervisor:  Prof. Denis Laurendeau)
  

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA

Tracy Hunt

• Medical Diagnosis (Supervisor:  Prof. Nariman Sepehri)
  

McGILL UNIVERSITY

Carmen Au

• Image Representation (Supervisor:  Prof. Jim Clark) 

Michele Faragalli

• Robotic Controllers (Supervisor:  Prof. Inna Sharf)

Stephane Pelletier

• Computer Vision (Supervisor:  Prof. Jeremy Cooperstock)

Junaed Sattar

• Robotics (Supervisor:  Prof. Greg Dudek)

Abdul Razzak Selman

• Human Kinematics (Supervisor:  Prof. Vince Hayward)
  

QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY

Mehdi Hedjazi Moghari

• Medical Imaging (Supervisor:  Prof. Purang Abolmaesumi)

Behzad Khademian 

• Haptics Controllers (Supervisor:  Prof. Keyvan Hashtrudi-Zaad)

Mehdi Moradi

• Medical Imaging (Supervisor:  Prof. Parvin Mousiavi)

Limin Shang

• Object Recognition (Supervisor:  Prof. Michael Greenspan)

Kathrin Tyryshkin

• Medical Diagnostics (Supervisor:  Prof. Janice Glasgow)
  

ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Kevin Wang

• Medical Imaging (Supervisor:  Prof. Terry Peters)
  

UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN

Pei-Hui Liu

• Human Machine Interfaces (Supervisor:  Prof. Chris Zhang)
  

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

Soheil Keshmiri

• Multi-agent Systems (Supervisor:  Prof. Shahram Payandeh)

Asghar Mesbah-Nejad

• Interfacial Force Microscopy (Supervisor:  Prof. Mehrdad Moallem)  

Matt Olsen

• Computer Vision (Supervisor:  Prof. Hao (Richard) Zhang)

Mandana Salajegheh

• Computer-aided surgery (Supervisors:  Profs. John Dill & Shahram Payandeh)

Zhongming Tang

• Haptics (Supervisor:  Prof.  Ash Parameswaran)
  

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

Diego Macrini

• Object Recognition (Supervisior:  Prof. Sven Dickinson)

Anthony Soung Yee

• Human Performance (Supervisor:  Prof. Paul Milgram)
  

UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO

Samantha Ng

• Assistive Devices (Supervisor:  Prof. John Zelek)

Yingying Tao

• Data Mining (Supervisor:  Prof. Tamer Ozsu)
  

UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO

Mahdi Azizian

• Computer-aided Angioplasty (Supervisor:  Prof. Rajnikant Patel)

Duane Jacques

• Assistive Technologies (Supervisor:  Prof. Ken McIsaac)  

Brian Wheeler

• Computer-aided Surgery (Supervisor:  Prof. Hanif Ladak)

Aria Shahingohar

• Medical Imaging (Supervisor:  Prof. Roy Eagleson)

Mehrnaz Zouqi

• Computer Vision (Supervisor:  Prof. Jagath Samarabandu)
  

YORK UNIVERSITY

Ehsan Fazl-Ersi

• Computer Vision (Supervisor:  Prof. John Tsotsos)

Hoda Dehmeshki

• Human Machine Interfaces (Supervisor:  Prof. Wolfgang Steurzlinger)

Konstantinos Derpanis

• Video Imaging (Supervisor:  Prof. Richard Wildes)

Vida Movahedi

• Computer Vision (Supervisor: James Elder)

Bart Vertzijlenberg

• Human Machine Interfaces (Supervisor:  Prof. Michael Jenkin)

 

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