Research Interest: Data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, healthcare mining and data analytics.
ORCID ID: 0000-0001-5333-8265
Grants Awarded
“Enhancing Subject-Independent Emotion Recognition Through Dynamic Brain Lateralization”, NSERC Discovery Grant. 2024-2029
"Intersubject Cross Functional Brain EEG Correlation Analysis to Advance Emotion Recognition", Manitoba Medical Service Foundation (MMSF). 2026-2027
“IT43009-AI Integration in Immigration Services: Enhancing Public Service with Data Pipelines, Data Lakes, LLMs, and Prompt Engineering”, Mitacs Accelerate. , Partner Organization: iRadar Data (Ottawa, ON) . 2024-2025
Students Supervised
University of Winnipeg
Research Assistant
Shyamal Dharia (Co-supervised with Dr. Stephen Smith). Winter 2025-present
PhD Students
Madhuri Sinha (co-supervised with Dr. Zahra Moussavi). PhD. in Biomedical Engineering. University of Manitoba. December 2025-present
Rogelio Sotero Reyes-Galaviz (co-supervised with Dr. Luis Villasenor). PhD. in Biomedical Science. Instituto Nacional De Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica (INAOE) (Mexico). August 2024– December 2025
Master's Students
Mir Md Taosif Nur- MSc. Applied in Computer Science - Winter 2026-present
Angie Reina Chavez- MSc. Applied in Computer Science - Fall 2025-present
Johan Castro Garay- MSc. Applied in Computer Science - Fall 2024-present
Seyedeh Marzieh Pouresmaeil Niaki (Co-supervised with Dr. Yangjun Chen). MSc. Applied in Computer Science - Fall 2024-present
Sumaiya Sultana Dola - MSc. Applied in Computer Science - Winter 2024-present. Recipient of the Graduate Student Research Award.
Anshul Sheoran- MSc. Applied in Computer Science - Winter 2024-Fall 2025. Recipient of the Graduate Student Research Award.
Armin Felahatpisheh - MSc. Applied in Computer Science - Winter 2024-Fall 2025. Recipient of Mitacs Accelerate.
Fatima Islam Mouri (co-supervised with Dr. Sergio Camorlinga) - MSc. Applied in Computer Science - 2022-2023
Undergraduate Students
Sunday P. Emmanuel- BSc. Applied in Computer Science- Research Course - Fall 2025 - Winter 2026
Isabella McEvoy- BSc. Applied in Computer Science- Research Internship- Summer 2025
Nathan Douglas- BSc. Applied in Computer Science- Research Course - Winter 2025-Summer 2025 - Recipient of NSERC USRA Award.
Maximilien Oosterhuis - BSc. Applied in Computer Science- Research Course - Winter 2025
Universidad Icesi (Cali, Colombia)
Diana Varela and Juan Molina. MSc. in Data Science, School of Engineering. June 2020 – December 2020
Johan Santacruz (co-supervised with Dr. Luis Munera). BSc. in Software Computing Engineering, School of Engineering. July 2012 – July 2013.
Visiting Students
Zheng Zhou. 2025 Mitacs Globallink student. BSc. in Computer Science. Beijing Jiaotong University (China). August – October 2025.
Aditi Gulati. 2024 Mitacs Globallink student. BSc. in Computer Science. Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women (India). August – October 2024.