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Alex Mariakakis

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Digital health
  • Health sensing
  • Human-computer interaction
  • Mobile computing
  • Wearables

Office: N/A
Mobile: 4168789405
Website
Email: alex.mariakakis@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email

Ashvin Goel

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Ashvin Goel

Areas of Expertise

  • Data corruption
  • Data loss
  • Data recovery
  • Data reliability
  • Disks
  • Operating systems
  • SSD
  • Storage and file systems

Office: 416-946-5180
Mobile: 647-447-7031
Website
Email: ashvin@eecg.toronto.edu
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Brendan Frey

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering

Brendan Frey

Areas of Expertise

  • Autoimmune diseases
  • Bayesian networks
  • Breast cancer
  • Colorectal cancer
  • Computational biology
  • Computational medicine
  • deep learning
  • Exome
  • Genetics of autism spectrum disorder
  • Genetics of cancer
  • Genome
  • Genomics
  • Machine learning
  • Neural networks
  • Pancreatic cancer
  • Parkinson's
  • spinal muscular atrophy
  • Whole genome sequence

Office: N/A
Website
Email: frey@psi.toronto.edu
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Christina C Christara

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Applications of numerical methods to science, engineering and finance
  • High Performance Computing
  • High-performance and parallel computing
  • Mathematical software
  • Numerical finance
  • Numerical methods and computation
  • Numerical methods, analysis and computation
  • Numerical solution of partial differential equations
  • Numerical weather and climate prediction
  • Numerical weather prediction
  • Parallel computation
  • Scientific computing, computational mathematics
  • Solution of large sparse linear systems

Office: 416 978-7360
Languages: Greek, Modern (1453-),English,French,German
Website
Email: c.christara@utoronto.ca
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Daniel Wigdor

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Gestural interfaces
  • Human interaction with technology
  • Mobile devices
  • User interface technologies
  • Wearable computing

Office: +1 (416) 978-7777
Website
Email: daniel@dgp.toronto.edu
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Eyal de Lara

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cloud computing
  • Edge computing
  • Location-based services
  • Mobile computing
  • Sensing for health applications
  • Ubiquitous Sensing
  • Wearable computing

Office: 416-946-8656
Mobile: 416-735-4938
Languages: English
Website
Email: delara@cs.toronto.edu
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Gerald Penn

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Acoustic Modelling
  • Archaeological decipherment
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Automatic text processing
  • Automatic translation of languages
  • Finite State Methods
  • Linguistic Information Visualization
  • Logic Programming
  • Mathematical Linguistics
  • Natural language processing
  • Parsing in Freer-Word-Order Languages
  • Privacy-preserving technology
  • Speech/Voice processing
  • Spoken Language Processing
  • Writing systems

Office: +1 (416) 978-7390
Languages: English,German
Website
Email: gpenn@cs.toronto.edu
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Ishtiaque Ahmed

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Migrants population and technology
  • Societal Impacts of Artificial Intelligence
  • Technology and ethics
  • Technology in Global South

Office: 647-220-3482
Languages: Arabic,Hindi,Bengali
Website
Email: ishtiaque.ahmed@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email

Karan Singh

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Artistic rendering and fabrication
  • Augmented Reality (AR)
  • Character animation
  • Computer animation
  • Computer graphics
  • Facial animation
  • Human-computer interaction
  • Interactive graphics
  • Mobile interfaces
  • Shape modelling
  • Shape perception
  • Sketch interfaces
  • Virtual Reality (VR)

Office: (416) 978-7201
Languages: English,French,Hindi,Japanese,Panjabi; Punjabi
Website
Email: karan@cs.toronto.edu
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Nisarg Shah

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Algorithmic fairness and ethics
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Fair division of resources
  • Fairness, transparency, and explainability in machine learning
  • Game theory
  • Incentives in machine learning
  • Participatory budgeting
  • Voting methods

Office: N/A
Website
Email: nisarg@cs.toronto.edu
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Paul Gries

Professor, Teaching Stream

Paul Gries

Areas of Expertise

  • Computer science education

Office: 416-978-6322
Mobile: 416-627-2264
Languages: English
Website
Email: pgries@cs.toronto.edu
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Raquel Urtasun

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Artificial Intelligence / machine learning
  • Computer Vision
  • Machine learning
  • Remote sensing and robotics
  • Self-driving cars

Office: N/A
Email: urtasun@cs.toronto.edu
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Ravin Balakrishnan

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Computer supported collaborative tools
  • Human-computer interaction
  • Interactive computer graphics
  • Interactive technology
  • User interfaces

Office: +1 (416) 835-1600
Website
Email: ravin@cs.toronto.edu
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Rich Zemel

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Computational neuroscience
  • Machine learning

Office: 416-978-7497
Website
Email: zemel@cs.toronto.edu
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Robert Zemel

Professor, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Arts and Science

Co-Founder and Director of Research at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Areas of Expertise

  • Algorithmic fairness
  • Generative models of images and text
  • Graph-based machine learning

Office: N/A
Email: zemel@cs.toronto.edu
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Steve Engels

Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Natural language processing
  • Open data
  • Technology education
  • Video game design

Office: (416) 946-5454
Languages: English,French,German
Website
Email: steve.engels@utoronto.ca
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Steve M Easterbrook

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Climate modelling and simulation
  • Computational modeling as a scientific research method
  • Investigation of software failures
  • Software engineering
  • Software verification and validation
  • Sustainable Cities and Urban Decision-Making
  • Systems Analysis and Systems Thinking

Office: 416-978-6526
Website
Email: sme@cs.toronto.edu
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Yashar Ganjali

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Computer networks
  • Internet

Office: 416-978-2952
Website
Email: yganjali@cs.toronto.edu
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online