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Garvin, TheresaEarth and Atmospheric Sciencessocial geography, aging, urban planning, seniors, human geography
McGee, TaraEarth and Atmospheric Scienceshuman dimensions of hazards, disasters, wildfire, public safety, Indigenous peoples, evacuation, human geography
Summers, RobertEarth and Atmospheric Sciencessustainable development, rural water resource policy and management, community sustainability / liveability, environmental planning and hazards, human geography
Agrawal, Sandeep KumarEarth and Atmospheric Sciencesurban planning, human rights, regional studies, environmental studies
Bandauko, ElmondEarth and Atmospheric SciencesUrban Geography, Urban Informality and Everyday Urbanism, Place Attachment and Residential Satisfaction, Urban Transformation, Geographies of Marginalization
Barbosa, DenilsonComputing ScienceDatabases, Knowledge Management, Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Big data, Natural language processing, Data analytics, Machine learning, Data cleaning, Web search, Knowledge Graphs, Linked Open Data, Human AI interaction, Social Media, large lanuage models, robustness, reliability, explainability
Bayne, ErinBiological SciencesClimate change, Cumulative effects, Big data, Data analytics, Birds, Human impacts, Bioacoustics, Population monitoring, Incidental take, Macro-ecology, Animal behavior, autonomous data collection, machine learning, migration timing and spatial patterns, ideal free versus ideal despotic habitat selection, abundant center hypothesis, differential habitat selection, density estimation, bioacoustics, landuse change
Boulanger, PierreComputing Sciencecomputer graphics, computer vision and multimedia communications, health, machine learning, augmented reality, visuo-haptic system, gesture recognition, virtual training, surgical training, surgical simulator, skill acquisition and transfer, minimally invasive surgery, haptic guidance, medical imaging, virtual reality, tele-robotics, multiview ultrasound, human computer interaction with co-robots, multi-robot coordination, non-Euclidean deep learning
Campbell, RobertChemistryanalytical chemistry, chemical biology, organic chemistry, human health, second messengers, biochemistry, biotechnology, enzymes and proteins, neuronal and synaptic activity, cell signaling, cancer, bioanalytical chemistry, bioorganic chemistry, biosensors, fluorescence, microscopy, molecular biology, protein engineering
Caplan, JeremyPsychologyMemory, Mathematical Models, Memory for associations, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Classifiers, Subsequent memory effect, Episodic memory, Memory for order, Human Behaviour
Choulli, TahirMathematical and Statistical Sciencesmathematical finance, informational markets, stochastic structures, transaction costs, incomplete markets, arbitrage theory, utility maximization, pricing measures/densities, behavioral portfolio, psychological and human emotions, prospect theory, habit formation, random horizon, hedging and pricing, local risk minimization, utility functions, defaultable markets, credit risk, martingale theory, stochastic, information theory, stochastic optimization, duality, hellinger processes, informational risks in financial and insurance markets, Random times and progressive enlargement of filtrations, Mortality/longevity risks and Multi-default risks, Martingales and (Reflected)BSDEs, Arbitrage theory and Deflators, Optimal Portfolios and Optimal Consumption, Equilibrium for informational markets, Mean-Variance Hedging and Pricing for vulnerable claims, The principal agent problem for informational markets, Machine learning for informational markets
Guzdial, MatthewComputing Scienceartificial intelligence, machine learning, computational creativity, game AI, video game design, co­creation, human­AI interaction, reinforcement learning, deep neural networks, Procedural Content Generation, Mixed-initiative Design, Player Modelling, User Adaptation, Transfer Learning, Explainable AI
Harynuk, JamesChemistryseparation science, forensic chemistry, mass spectrometry, emerging environmental contaminants, identification of organic compounds, analytical chemistry, gas chromatography, multidimensional chromatography, separations, thermodynamics, QSRRs, flow modulation, retention, chemometrics, feature selection, data reduction, machine learning, human exposure, cannabis, metabolomics, environmental analysis, nontarget analysis
Jagersand, MartinComputing Scienceimage-based visual serving, video tracking, vision-based robot motion specification, computer graphics, computer vision and multimedia communications, robotics, 3D geometric computer vision, appearance modeling, uncalibrated camera video, surface reconstruction, image-based rendering, geometric invariants, learning hand-eye coordination, human-robot interaction, learning from demonstration
Kacsmar, BaileyComputing Scienceprivacy-preserving machine learning, human-centered design, private computation, multiparty computation
Santana de Lelis, LeviComputing ScienceArtificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Human­computer interaction, Computer games, Heuristic search, Planning, Program Synthesis, Explainable AI
Shields, Rob Earth and Atmospheric SciencesYouth, Community, Change, reisilience and innovation, urban and small town issues, contemporary culture, Cultural geography, ethnographic and participatorymethods, citizen engagement
St. Clair, ColleenBiological Sciencesbehavioural ecology, conservation biology, wildlife management, human-wildlife conflict, individual variation, behavioural flexibility, habituation, habitat selection, animal movement, personality, wildlife conservation, animal behaviour, conservation behaviour, human-wildlife coexistence, urban ecology, movement ecology, carnivores, ungulates
Stroulia, EleniComputing Scienceartificial intelligence, computer games, information and communications technologies, health, aging, model-driven software engineering, collaborative software platforms, cloud-based software platforms, service-oriented architecture, personalized mobile applications, sensor-based applications, social-network analysis, data analysis and visualization, data science, internet of things, smart buildings, smart homes, software architecture, sensors, cyberphysical systems, data fusion, human­ computer Interaction, access control, DevOps
Taylor, MattComputing ScienceReinforcement Learning, Learning from Humans, Human­AI interaction, Multi­agent systems, Inter­agent teaching
Bulitko, VadimComputing Scienceartificial intelligence, computer games, information and communications technologies, interactive storytelling, emotion modeling, real-time heuristic search, machine learning, agent-based simulations, cognitive process in humans and machines, data science
Currie, PhilipBiological Sciencesdinosaurs, creatceous, Alberta, evolution, palaeoecology, theropoda, taxonomy, migration, teeth, palaeobiogeography
Johnston, StephenEarth and Atmospheric SciencesGeology and Geophysics, Structural Geology, Plate Tectonics, Cordilleran Geology, Neotectonics, Earth System Science, Fold and Thrust Belts, Foreland Basins, Mountain Systems, Paleogeography, Paleomagnetism, Subduction, Earthquakes, Ore Deposits, Oroclines, Cordillera, Rocky Mountains, Mountain Building, Pangea, S China, Arctic Tectonics
Koppelhus, EvaBiological Sciencesplant fossils, fossil wood, spores, pollen, systematics, plant morphology, plant anatomy, evolution, ecology, paleo-biogeography, paleo climate, reconstruction of ancient environments, paleobotany, palynology
Sperling, FelixBiological SciencesEntomology, Ecology and evolution, Forestry, Biosystematics, Speciation, Taxonomy, Population genetics, Genomics, Biogeography, Phylogenetics, Conservation, Species diagnostics, Museums, Butterflies, morphology