Nicholas graduated from Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo in 2019 and completed his master’s degree with PhotoMedicine labs in 2022.

Email: nicholas.pellegrino@uwaterloo.ca
UW Scholar: https://uwaterloo.ca/scholar/npellegr
LinkedIn: LinkedIn
Google Scholar: Google Scholar

Email: y227fang@uwaterloo.ca

I have 18 years of IT leadership experience in industry.  Most recently I led IT strategy work for the University Health Network’s Multi Organ Transplant group in collaboration with UW; and I was the Director of Privacy & Security at Canada Health Infoway with oversight on federally funded Electronic Health Record projects in each province.  I have my own company, Bedrock Security Services Inc, whose clients included Canada Health Infoway, Telus, IBM and the Center for Internet Security; and I have also worked at Sobeys, Scotiabank, IBM and other organizations.

My non-academic publications include:

Sasha Bojicic, David Pare, Robert Caron, André Carrington, Lloyd MacKenzie, et al. Transport Layer Interoperability Specification v3.1, Canadian Draft for Use, Canada Health Infoway, Toronto, Canada, July 2011.

Ingrid J. Petersen, André Carrington, et al. Wireless Security benchmark v1.0, Center for Internet Security, U.S.A., 2005.

Currently, I am working on efficient deep learning methods for embedded systems with application on autonomous driving cars, traffic monitoring and healthcare. 

My PhD thesis topic was about introducing a “Randomly-connected Non-Local Conditional Random Fields” to address long-range spatial connectivity while maintaining computational complexity. 

My master thesis was focused on A Novel Conditional Random Field Framework For Object Tracking supervised by Prof. Zohreh Azimifar.

In my key research areas, I have demonstrated excellence, leadership and recognition. I, as principal investigator, have successfully secured many competitive grants, including NSERC Discovery Grant. I have published one book chapter, 66 journal papers on high-rank remote sensing journals and 41 conference articles on high-impact conferences.

I have been involved in many invited talks and presentations to different audiences, and I frequently receive reviewer invitations from high-impact remote sensing journals and conferences. I serve as the Associate Editor of Frontiers in Environmental Science (Section: Big Data, AI and the Environment).

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/linlinxu.

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/linlinxu

Email: l44xu@uwaterloo.ca

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Supervision – Completed

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