Meet the professional staff behind the Vector Institute
Board of Directors
The Vector Institute also gives thanks to Janet Bannister, Scott Bonham, Vivek Goel, Mary Jo Haddad, Jordan Jacobs, Stephen Lake, Pearl Sullivan, and Shivon Zilis for their time, energy and dedication as founding members of Vector’s Board of Directors. Their vision, insight and experience have been instrumental in establishing and guiding Vector towards its vision and mission.
CEO’s Office
Industry Innovation

Sedef Akinli Kocak
DIRECTOR, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Warren Ali
DIRECTOR, INDUSTRY INNOVATION
Mariah Amalraj
FASTLANE ANALYST INTERN

Winnie Au
PROJECT MANAGER

Oluwanifemi Bamgbosei
AI PROJECT MANAGEMENT INTERN

Mohammad Ahmed Basri
AI PROJECT MANAGEMENT INTERN

Junid Ebadi
FASTLANE PROGRAM BUSINESS ANALYST

Shaaf Farooq
AI PROJECT MANAGEMENT INTERN
Ramin Fathian
APPLIED AI PROJECT MANAGEMENT INTERN

Alyssa Gagné
PROGRAM MANAGER, INDUSTRY INNOVATION
Erik Garcia
PROJECT MANAGER
Vyry George
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR

Matthew Johnson
DIRECTOR, INDUSTRY INNOVATION
Michael Joseph
TECHNICAL EDUCATION SPECIALIST

Himanshu Joshi
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER
Safi Kamawal
APPLIED AI PROJECT MANAGEMENT INTERN

Amirmohammad Kazemeini
PROJECT MANAGER
Tahniat Khan
PROJECT MANAGER

Cynthia Lam
AI EDUCATION INTERN

Anna Matta
DIRECTOR, INDUSTRY INNOVATION

Aida Mirebrahimi Tafreshi
AI EDUCATION INTERN

Diana Moyano
PROJECT MANAGER

Sajjad Pakdamansavoji
AI EDUCATION INTERN

Andres Rojas
DIRECTOR, APPLIED AI PROJECTS

Cameron Schuler
CHIEF COMMERCIALIZATION OFFICER AND VP, INDUSTRY INNOVATION

Kathleen Sebastian
ASSOCIATE PROJECT MANAGER

Amir Shahbandegan
AI EDUCATION INTERN

Muhammad Shahmir Masood
FASTLANE PROGRAM COORDINATOR

Craig Stewart
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, APPLIED AI PROGRAMS

Ali Taiyeb
DIRECTOR, INDUSTRY INNOVATION

Michiel Vos
MANAGER, AI STARTUPS & SCALEUPS

Bob Zhou
FASTLANE PROGRAM BUSINESS ANALYST
Flora Wan
TECHNICAL EDUCATION SPECIALIST
AI Engineering

Arash Afkanpour
APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING SCIENTIST
Adil Asif
ASSOCIATE APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING SPECIALIST
Sana Ayromlous
ASSOCIATE APPLIED ML SPECIALIST

Veronica Chatrath
ASSOCIATE TECHNICAL PROGRAM MANAGER
Matthew Choi
ASSOCIATE APPLIED MACHINE SPECIALIST

Carolyn Chong
SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER

Mark Coatsworth
SYSTEMS ENGINEER

Omkar Dige
ASSOCIATE APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING SPECIALIST

Elham Dolatabadi
APPLIED ML SCIENTIST, HEALTH, CONSULTANT

David Emerson
APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING SCIENTIST
Chu Fei Luo
APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING INTERN
Shardul Ghuge
APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING INTERN
Ziwen Han
APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING INTERN
Roya Javadi
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER – MACHINE LEARNING

John Jewell
ASSOCIATE APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING SPECIALIST

Faiza Khattak
APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING SCIENTIST, NLP

Vahid Reza Khazaie
ASSOCIATE APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING SPECIALIST
Farnaz Kohankhaki
ASSOCIATE APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING SPECIALIST

Amrit Krishnan
TECHNICAL TEAM LEAD
Marcelo Lotif
SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER – MACHINE LEARNING

Deval Pandya
VICE PRESIDENT, AI ENGINEERING

Colin Raffel
ASSOCIATE RESEARCH DIRECTOR, AI ENGINEERING & INFRASTRUCTURE

Dhanesh Ramachandram
APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING SCIENTIST – HEALTH LEAD
Ananya Raval
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER – MACHINE LEARNING

Shaina Raza
APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING SCIENTIST – RESPONSIBLE AI
Karan Swatch
APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING INTERN

Fatemeh Tavakoli
ASSOCIATE APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING SPECIALIST

John Willes
TECHNICAL TEAM LEAD
Yuchong Zhang
APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING INTERN
Health and Technology

Jessica Blackman
DIRECTOR, HEALTH RESEARCH OPERATIONS
Sebastian Burlacu
SCIENTIFIC SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

Jacky Chen
PROJECT MANAGER, BUSINESS COMPUTING

Thomas Deane
ASSOCIATE TECHNICAL BUSINESS ANALYST
Azra Dhalla
DIRECTOR, HEALTH AI IMPLEMENTATION

Ben Davies
CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER

Kevin Jeong
ASSOCIATE SUPPORT ANALYST
Lynette Kofi
PROGRAM COORDINATOR, HEALTH OPERATIONS & DATA MANAGEMENT
David Magda
SCIENTIFIC SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

Val Morozov
BUSINESS SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

Rob Naccarato
DIRECTOR, SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING

Maia Norman
PROJECT MANAGER, HEALTH DATA AND STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS
Parisa Osivand
DATA STEWARD
Kagiso Phaphe
HPC SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR
Zack Power
HPC SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR
Chioma Precious Uju
PROGRAM MANAGER, HEALTH RESEARCH OPERATIONS

Janice Da Silva
PROJECT MANAGER, HEALTH AI IMPLEMENTATION
Roxana Sultan
CHIEF DATA OFFICER AND VP HEALTH

John Yee
SYSTEMS OPERATIONS MANAGER
Joanna Yu
DATA, HEALTH DATA & PARTNERSHIPS
Research Operations and Academic Partnerships
Sereen Aziz
RESEARCH OPERATIONS & ACADEMIC PARTNERSHIPS, PROGRAM COORDINATOR

Carly Cummings
PROGRAM COORDINATOR, RESEARCH OPERATIONS & ACADEMIC PARTNERSHIPS

Sam Hadkar
SPECIALIST, AI TALENT INITIATIVES

Cedric Hou
DATA ANALYST

Melissa Judd
VICE PRESIDENT, RESEARCH OPERATIONS & ACADEMIC PARTNERSHIPS

Arber Kacollja
MANAGER, RESEARCH SERVICES

Clarence Magpantay
RESEARCH OPERATIONS OFFICER

Adam Renkosinski
DIRECTOR, AI TALENT INITIATIVES & ANALYTICS

Sylvia Si Gao
PROGRAM COORDINATOR

Johannah Thumb
MANAGER, STUDENT ENGAGEMENT

Taylor Walker
SPECIALIST, INTERNSHIPS & WORK INTEGRATED LEARNING
Caroline Wesley
RESEARCH SERVICES OFFICER

Susana Veliz
PROGRAMS OFFICER

Jackie Zurborg
DIRECTOR, RESEARCH OPERATIONS
Operations
Sameera Ali
TALENT ACQUISITION SPECIALIST
James Boutcher
OFFICE SERVICES ASSISTANT

Gary Burlakoff
DIRECTOR OF FINANCE

Michelle D’Souza
HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER

Geoffrey Forguson
MANAGER, FINANCE

Dafine Fukunishi Del Bianco
HUMAN RESOURCES GENERALIST

Ivana Hua
TALENT ACQUISITION SPECIALIST

Catherine Kirby
DIRECTOR, HUMAN RESOURCES & CORPORATE SERVICES

Jessica Loreto
HUMAN RESOURCES ASSOCIATE
Abdur Mohammed
OFFICE SERVICES MANAGER
Alina Montenegro-Familia
OFFICE SERVICES ASSISTANT
Mira Ngresi
PAYROLL & FINANCE SPECIALIST

Daniel Oltianu
OFFICE SERVICES ASSISTANT

Lucas Parnanzone
SENIOR FINANCIAL ANALYST
Chloe To
OFFICE SERVICES ASSISTANT

Alan Veerman
CHIEF OPERATIONS AND FINANCIAL OFFICER
Marketing, Communications, and Events
Natasha Ali
SCIENTIFIC WRITER & COMMUNICATIONS INTERN

Ridha Chilmeran
GOVERNMENT & STAKEHOLDER RELATIONS MANAGER

Kari Clarke-Zemnickis
DIRECTOR, MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

Marcie De Cesare
MANAGER, MARKETING

Ian Gormely
COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST AND WRITER

Jennifer Jenkins
MARKETING SPECIALIST

Chiara Lacey
DIRECTOR, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & EVENTS
Dani Makendiran
COORDINATOR EVENTS AND MARKETING

Orli Namian
MANAGER, COMMUNICATIONS & PUBLIC RELATIONS

Nadiea Prince
DIRECTOR, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & EVENTS

Natalie Richard
COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST & WRITER

Melissa Rose
EVENTS MANAGER
Kaye Schatz
GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Leanna Vu
MARKETING SPECIALIST

Kylie Williams
DIGITAL MARKETING & ANALYTICS SPECIALIST
Special thanks to Tomi Poutanen for his help in envisioning and establishing the Vector Institute.