Meet the professional staff behind the Vector Institute
Board of Directors
The Vector Institute also gives thanks to Scott Bonham, Jordan Jacobs, Vivek Goel, Mary Jo Haddad, 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.
Industry Innovation

Sedef Akinli Kocak
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER & TECHNICAL TRANSLATOR

Warren Ali
DIRECTOR, INDUSTRY INNOVATION
Mariah Amalraj
FASTLANE ANALYST INTERN
Dami Aremu
AI PROJECT MANAGEMENT INTERN
Winnie Au
PROJECT MANAGER
Oluwanifemi Bamgbosei
AI PROJECT MANAGEMENT INTERN

Junid Ebadi
FASTLANE PROGRAM BUSINESS ANALYST
Shaaf Farooq
AI EDUCATION INTERN

Alyssa Gagné
PROGRAM MANAGER, INDUSTRY INNOVATION
Erik Garcia
PROJECT MANAGER
Vyry George
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR
Kaleb Huneau
FASTLANE PROGRAM ANALYST INTERN

Matthew Johnson
DIRECTOR, INDUSTRY INNOVATION
Michael Joseph
TECHNICAL EDUCATION SPECIALIST

Himanshu Joshi
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

Amirmohammad Kazemeini
PROJECT MANAGER
Tahniat Khan
PROJECT MANAGER

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

Jessica Saini
AI PROJECT MANAGEMENT INTERN

Cameron Schuler
CHIEF COMMERCIALIZATION OFFICER AND VP, INDUSTRY INNOVATION

Amir Shahbandegan
AI EDUCATION INTERN

Muhammad Shahmir Masood
FASTLANE PROGRAM COORDINATOR

Craig Stewart
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, APPLIED AI PROGRAMS
Santoshi Tadanki
AI PROJECT MANAGEMENT INTERN

Ali Taiyeb
DIRECTOR, INDUSTRY INNOVATION

Michiel Vos
MANAGER, AI STARTUPS & SCALEUPS

Bob Zhou
FASTLANE PROGRAM BUSINESS ANALYST
Flora Wan
TECHNICAL EDUCATION SPECIALIST
AI Engineering and Technology
Sana Ayromlous
APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING INTERN
Sebastian Burlacu
SCIENTIFIC SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

Jacky Chen
PROJECT MANAGER, BUSINESS COMPUTING
Matthew Choi
ASSOCIATE APPLIED MACHINE SPECIALIST

Mark Coatsworth
SYSTEMS ENGINEER

Thomas Deane
ASSOCIATE TECHNICAL BUSINESS ANALYST

Omkar Dige
ASSOCIATE APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING SPECIALIST

Elham Dolatabadi
APPLIED ML SCIENTIST, HEALTH LEAD

David Emerson
APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING SCIENTIST

Kevin Jeong
ASSOCIATE SUPPORT ANALYST

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
SENIOR APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING SPECIALIST
David Magda
SCIENTIFIC SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR
Aditi Maheshwari
APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING INTERN

Rob Naccarato
DIRECTOR, SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING
Deval Pandya
DIRECTOR, AI ENGINEERING
Kagiso Phaphe
HPC Systems Administrator

Masoud Pourreza
APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING INTERN

Shaina Raza
APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING SCIENTIST

George-Kirollos Saad
APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING INTERN
Yan Sidyakin
APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING INTERN

Fatemeh Tavakoli
ASSOCIATE APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING SPECIALIST

Jacob-Junqi Tian
APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING INTERN

John Willes
APPLIED ML SPECIALIST
Wayne Xu
APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING INTERN

John Yee
SYSTEMS OPERATIONS MANAGER
Yuchong Zhang
APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING INTERN
Health

Jessica Blackman
DIRECTOR, HEALTH RESEARCH OPERATIONS
Azra Dhalla
DIRECTOR, HEALTH AI IMPLEMENTATION

Ben Davies
CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER

Tanya Jain
HEALTH PROJECT MANAGEMENT INTERN
Lynette Kofi
PROGRAM COORDINATOR, HEALTH OPERATIONS & DATA MANAGEMENT
Roxana Sultan
CHIEF DATA OFFICER AND VP HEALTH

Maia Norman
PROJECT MANAGER, HEALTH DATA AND STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS
Parisa Osivand
DATA STEWARD
Chioma Precious Uju
PROGRAM MANAGER, HEALTH RESEARCH OPERATIONS
Joanna Yu
DATA, HEALTH DATA & PARTNERSHIPS
Research Operations and Academic Partnerships
Sereen Aziz
RESEARCH OPERATIONS & ACADEMIC PARTNERSHIPS, PROGRAM COORDINATOR
Alison Butler
RESEARCH & OPERATIONS COORDINATOR

Carly Cummings
PROGRAM COORDINATOR, RESEARCH OPERATIONS & ACADEMIC PARTNERSHIPS
Bhavjot Grewal
AUTOMATION INTERN

Sam Hadkar
SPECIALIST, AI TALENT INITIATIVES

Cedric Hou
DATA ANALYST

Melissa Judd
VICE PRESIDENT, RESEARCH OPERATIONS & ACADEMIC PARTNERSHIPS

Arber Kacollja
MANAGER, RESEARCH SERVICES
Michelle Lam
EQUITY, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION ANALYST INTERN

Clarence Magpantay
RESEARCH OPERATIONS OFFICER
Amal Mohamed
MARKET RESEARCH & ANALYST INTERN

Adam Renkosinski
MANAGER, AI TALENT INITIATIVES

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

Gary Burlakoff
DIRECTOR OF FINANCE
Samantha Coffa
HUMAN RESOURCES ASSOCIATE
Michelle D’Souza
HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER

Geoffrey Forguson
MANAGER, FINANCE

Dafine Fukunishi Del Bianco
HUMAN RESOURCES GENERALIST

Catherine Kirby
DIRECTOR, HUMAN RESOURCES & CORPORATE SERVICES
Abdur Mohammed
OFFICE SERVICES MANAGER
Alina Montenegro-Familia
OFFICE SERVICES ASSISTANT
Keilly Nazas-Montenegro
OFFICE SERVICES ASSISTANT
Mira Ngresi
PAYROLL & FINANCE SPECIALIST

Daniel Oltianu
OFFICE SERVICES ASSISTANT

Lucas Parnanzone
SENIOR FINANCIAL ANALYST

Alan Veerman
CHIEF OPERATIONS AND FINANCIAL OFFICER
Marketing, Communications, and Events

Kelley Alexander
CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA RELATIONS MANAGER
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
COORDINATOR, EVENTS AND MARKETING

Chiara Lacey
DIRECTOR, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & EVENTS

Orli Namian
MANAGER, COMMUNICATIONS & PUBLIC RELATIONS

Nadiea Prince
EVENTS MANAGER

Natalie Richard
COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST & WRITER
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.