People

Leadership – Dr. Pascal Tyrrell

Pascal Tyrrell is an accomplished data scientist and the Director of Data Science at the University of Toronto’s Department of Medical Imaging, within the Temerty Faculty of Medicine. His research focuses on applying cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence to medical image analysis, driving improved health outcomes globally. Additionally, Pascal is a serial entrepreneur with expertise in computer software, medical devices, and agri-tech.

Read more about Dr. Pascal Tyrrell
UofT researcher profile is here.


Current Members (mouse over for descriptions)

Postdoctoral

Ernest Namdar (2025)

 

 

Noushin Jafarpisheh (Postdoctoral Researcher at UofT) (2024-2025)

 


Graduate Students

Rosa Fallahpour (PhD candidate, Department of Statistical Sciences, UofT) (2022-2025)

 


International Visiting Graduate Students (current)

 

 


TA/Staff

Chantelle Lin (HBSc MSc) (2020-2025)

 


Work Study (Current)

 


Undergraduate Research Courses

Research Opportunity Program (ROP)

Abigail Xi Chen

 

Nathan Liu (2025)

 

Mira Icgoren

 

Navnoor Singh Mahal (2025-2026)

 

 

Nicolas Wojtarowicz (2025-2026)

 

 

 

Qifan Yang (2025)

 

Rolland He (2025)

 

 

Winnie Ye (2025)

 

 


STA496 Reading Course

Lu Huang

 


Translational Research Program – Graduate Students

Fardin Islam

 


International Collaboration

Dr. Jean Carlo Segura

 

Dr. Roberto Romero

 


Volunteers (MiVIP)

Healthcare Professionals

Internationally trained

Dr. Anuja Mandavkar (Physician, India)

 

 

Dr. Aria Hassanpour (Dentist, Iran)

 

Dr. Pardaman Setia (Radiologist, India)

 

Medical Students

International

Michael Atalla (St. George’s University | Caribbean Medical School )

 

National

Eray Yilmaz (Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western)

 

Hayden John (Queen’s University School of Medicine)

 

Nawab Azizi (Queen’s University School of Medicine)

 

 

Selvin Leenus (Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western)

 

 

local

Raman Abbaspour (Temerty Faculty of Medicine)

 

Rhea Varghese (Temerty Faculty of Medicine, UofT Medical Imaging)

 

Graduate Students (MiVIP)

National

Abdelhakim Khellaf (Pathology Resident, UDM )

 

local

Shawn Demello (Master’s Student in Biomedical Engineering, TMU)

 

 

Stefan Aguiar (PhD candidate, Institute of Medical Sciences, UofT)

 

Yukthi Wickramarachchi (MScAC, UofTs)

 

Undergraduate Students (MiVIP)

local

Christine Lee (BAsc, University of Toronto)

 


Dev Shah (Undergraduate, UofT)

 

Lucie Yang (BSc, University of Toronto)

 

Marshal Guo

 

Mike Wang

 

Tony Wang (ML Engineering Student Intern)

Vanessa Mac (Undergraduate, University of Waterloo)

 

 

Wardah Ljaz

 

Other Volunteers (MiVIP)

International

Innocent Menyo

National

Afsaneh Amirabadi

 

 

Amir Hassanpour

 

 

Aryaman Bansal

 

Erfan Hashemi

Jun Hao Saw

 

 

Khosrow Khodabandehlou (MiVIP, Undergraduate, York University)

Mohammad Safarzadeh

 

 

Ruixin Liu (HBSc, University of Toronto)

 

 

Shakur Shunbuli





Alumni

Medical Students

Emma Blanchette (Temerty Faculty of Medicine)

 

Eric Dhillon (Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo)

 

Stephen Dhillon (Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo)

 

 

Graduate Students

Ahmed Sigiuk (2018)

Atsuhiro Hibi (PhD, Institute of Medical Science, UofT) (2021-2024)

 

Daniel Eftekhari (MSc, IBBME UofT) (2016-2018)

 

Mauro Mendez Mora (MSc candidate, Institute of Medical Science, UofT ) (2021-2022)

 

Rajshree Daulatabad (MSc, Mitacs York University) (2020)

 


Postdoctoral

Banafshe Felfeliyan (PhD, University of Alberta, Visiting Researcher at UofT) (2024-2025)

 

Dmitrii Paniukov (2020-2021)

 

Majid Jaberipour (2021-2022)

 


TA/Staff

James Hong (PhD, Postdoc with Dr. Fehlings, Guest Lecturer)

 

Ramiz Khan (TA for AI in Medicine) (2023-2024)

 

Tristal Li (MSc Statistics, TA for Biostatistics in a Nutshell + MiVIP volunteer) (2022)

 


Work Study

Aaron White (Research Assistant)

 

Hershel Stark

Hibah Naviwala

Intesar Raisuddin

Jean Li

 

Jielin Yang

Jennie Fang

 

Juan Martinez

Kiersten Thomas

Meimei Fong

Minji (Jinny) Kim

Nadia Stec

Ravinya Athukoralage

Tinny Nguyen

Vijairam Murugathas

 

Yan Qing Lee

 

Yunni Qu

 

Zeneng Fan


ROP

Alana Man (2014-2015)

Alice Zhang (Undergraduate UofT) (2022-2023)

 

Adam Adli (2018-2019)

 

Adele Lauzon (2021-2022)

Christine Wang (Undergraduate UofT)

 

Benedek Balla (2023-2024)

 

Clare Sheen (2015-2016)

Daihao Wu (2022)

Daniel Saragih (2023-2024)

 

Dianna McAllister (2018-2019)

George Wang (2016-2017)

Grace Yu (2021-2022)

 

Guanjie(Jacky) Wang (2020-2021)

 

Hao Yue (Helena) Lan (2014-2015)

Irene Fang (2021)

 

Jacqueline Seal (2021)

 

Janet Huang (2016)

Jayun Bae (2016-2017)

Jessica Jia-Ni Xu (2020-2021)

 

Jihong Huang (2021)

Jingwen Zhong (2024)

Jingyu Ye (2022)

Jeffrey Huang (2021-2022)

Julia Robson (2015-2016)

Jun Ni (Jenny) Du (2020-2021)

 

Kevin Chen (2014-2015)

Linxi Chen (2021)

Manav Shah (2021-2022)

Mason Hu (2023)

 

Michael Zhao (2024-2025)

 

Nana Ye

 

Parinita Edke (2020-2021)

 

Rachel Jaffe

Rishit Dagli (2023-2024)

 

Rui Zhu (2021)

 

Qianyu (Rita) Fan (2021)

 

Samantha Santoro (2017-2018)

Sean Chua (2023)

Shih-Hsin (Phoebe) Chuang (2024-2025)

 

Stanley Bryan Hua (2020-2021)

 

Stella Song (2016)

Sylvia Urbanik (2014-2015)

Tony Su

Varun Sahni (2024-2025)

 

Wendi Qu

 

Wenda Zhao (2018)

Xin Lei Lin (2024-2025)

 

Yash Ramani (Undergraduate UofT) (2022-2023)

 

Youyang Guo (2024-2025)

 

 

Yuzhi Tang (2022)

Yihan Wang (2022-2023)

Yuxi Zhu (2024)

 

 


T-CAIREM

Dhruv Patel (Medical Student, Queen’s University) (2024)


International Visiting Graduate Students (IVGS)

Lolita Aboa

 

Namvar Nima (MSc student, UPEC)

Gabriel Solana (PhD candidate Visiting International student, Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Mexico) (2022)

Giuseppe Soriano (MSc student, University of Pisa, Italy) (May to Aug 2025)


International Student Internship

Parth Manchanda (Electrical Engineering Undergraduate, International student, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IITD))

 

Sangeet Chourasia (Electrical Engineering Undergraduate, International student, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IITD))

Shubham Jaswal (Biostatistics & Demography, MSc, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai)

 

Siddhesh Shelke (Material Science International student, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore)

Thiru Siddharth (Computer science, International student, Indian Institute of Information of Technology, Bhopal)

 


Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP)

Karan Chahal (2024)

Yasmine Madan (Bachelor of Health Sciences Student, McMaster University) (2024)


Undergraduate Students

Diana Escoboza

 

Hanzi Jiang

 

Irene Yingxuan Niu

Mohamed Nashnoush (AMGEN Scholar)

Paul Tang

 

Saifei Liao


Independent Studies

Amar Dholakia

 

Aya Mahder-Bashi

Hanatu Tak

Indranil Balki

Lee Radigan

 

Stephanie Wai-Shan Wang

Yang Zang

Yiyum (Grace) Gu


Reading Course

Yini Mao (Undergraduate UofT, STA497 student)


Volunteer (MiVIP)

Alameen Damer

Alex Rosen

Ali Geramy

Ali Rafieian

Amber (Fengyan) Li

Andrew Magnuson (MiVIP, Undergraduate UofT)

 

Ariba Alam

Bita Behrouzi

Brandon Tetruck

Christine Lee

Daniella Manna

Danielle Arje

Emaan Chaudry

 

Ervin Ibadula

Faith Balshin

Fatma Eltawil

Frozan Safi

 

Ginny Ting

Guan Wang

 

Haoying Shen

Henry Lu

 

Hershel Stark

Hua Lu

Jason Zhu

Jialu Fu

Jiawei Gong

John Valen

Kuan Liu

Lehang Zhong

Lu Han

 

Mariam Afshin

Mauro Mendez

Michael Manno

Minh Dang (BSc, University of Toronto)

Neda Ghiam

Ori Weigner

Oscar Moody

Qiongbin Wang

Rashmi Kurup

Rui Zhu (MiVIP, Undergraduate UofT)

 

Rogers (Haochong) Yang

Ryan Shi

Shruthi Sundararaman (Undergraduate, Western University)

 

Stella Wang

Sylvia Li

Tanav Bajaj

Tianye Dou

Tina Binesha Marvasti

Tong Su (MiVIP, Undergraduate UofT)

Trevor Thang

Tristal Li

Usman Tarique

Will Wu (MiVIP, Undergraduate UofT)

 

Xiao Ou (Charles) He

Xueying Han

Yao Xi

Yuhang Wu

Yu Xian (Gordon) Wang

Ziming Chen


Trainees

Bita Behrouzi (MD, Internal medicine medical resident, Boston, USA)

Felipe Castillo (Medical Imaging fellow, UofT 2023)


YSP

Angela Lo

Elizabeth Lehner

Jenny Joo

 

Michelle Cheung

Rostam Rashidkhani


CREMS

Eli Lechtman (2014-2015)