Machine Learning

Adam is a third year student studying computer science and nutrition. He will be joining the lab in the academic year of 2018-19 as an ROP student. Adam's hobbies include software development and music production.

Ahmed is a graduate student from the University of British Columbia pursing Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests are in signal processing, time-series analysis, and Machine Learning. Currently, he is working on application of CNN on medical images for survival analysis.

Ariana is an undergraduate student from the Tecnológico de Costa Rica. She is currently pursuing her undergraduate degree in Computing Engineering. At Tyrrell's lab, she is working in the classification of dental image artifacts using machine learning. During her free time, she likes to watch TV series or play video games.

Daniel is a graduate student in biomedical engineering at U of T. He is a machine learning researcher in the lab and his research interests include machine learning and computer vision.

Dianna is a second-year undergraduate student in the bioinformatics specialist program at the University of Toronto. She will be an ROP student in the upcoming 2018-2019 academic year. Outside of academics, Dianna is on the U of T varsity cheerleading team.

Hershel recently graduated from U of T in statistics and biochemistry, and will be doing his master's in Financial Insurance in the 2018-2019 year. He started in Dr. Tyrrell’s group back in 2014 as a Youth Summer Program student, and has been involved on the machine learning team since early 2017. Hershel's interests span deep learning, image recognition, and time-series analysis.

Mauro is a fourth-year undergraduate student from Tecnológico de Costa Rica specialising in Computing Engineering. He is currently doing an academic internship at UofT funded by scholarships received from his university in Costa Rica. His project is to explore the effects of a heterogeneous data set on a deep learning pipeline for the survival analysis prediction using unsupervised learning.

Rachael Jaffe is a third year undergraduate student studying Global Health with minors in Economics and Statistics. She will be joining Professor Tyrrell’s lab for the 2018-2019 academic year as an ROP student. Outside of academics, Rachael plays water polo for the Varsity Blues.

Serena is a second-year student in the Life Sciences program at the University of Toronto. During the Fall/Winter Term, she will be a Research Assistant in Dr. Tyrrell’s lab as part of the Fall/Winter ROP Program. Serena is interested in research in the field of neuroscience and the ways in which the implementation of machine learning in a lab setting could greatly improve the efficacy and accuracy of such research.

Sherry is a second year student specializing in Mathematics. In summer 2018 she is an ROP student at Professor Tyrrell’s lab.

Wenda is an undergraduate student going into his fourth year at U of T studying pathobiology and neuroscience. He is doing a summer ROP with Prof. Tyrrell on machine learning in classifying dental image artifacts. Wenda is interested in the clinical application of machine learning and his other research interests include the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases. In his free time when the weather is warm, Wenda enjoys biking around the city.

Wendi is an undergraduate student going into her third year at U of T double majoring in Molecular Genetics and Statistics. She is an ROP student for the upcoming 2018-2019 fall/winter. Currently, Wendi is doing epidemiology research on kidney transplant recipients in Toronto General Hospital as a continuation of her ROP299. She is very interested in exploring and researching on how machine learning can help improve healthcare practices. Wendi enjoys sketching and swimming in her free time.