Meet the professional staff behind the Vector Institute

Board of Directors

Ed Clark

Chair

Janet Bannister

Charmaine Dean

Janet L. Ecker

Chaviva Hosek

Nadir Mohamed

Michael Serbinis

Terrence Sullivan

Melanie Woodin

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.

CEO’s Office

Tony Gaffney

President and CEO

Industry Innovation

Sedef Akinli Kocak

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER & TECHNICAL TRANSLATOR

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Jennifer Jenkins

COORDINATOR, EVENTS AND MARKETING

Chiara Lacey

DIRECTOR, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & EVENTS

Orli Namian

MANAGER, COMMUNICATIONS & PUBLIC RELATIONS

Nadiea Prince

EVENTS MANAGER

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Natalie Richard

COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST & WRITER

Kaye Schatz

GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Leanna Vu

MARKETING SPECIALIST

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Kylie Williams

DIGITAL MARKETING & ANALYTICS SPECIALIST

Special thanks to Tomi Poutanen for his help in envisioning and establishing the Vector Institute.