Alumni

Youssef Beauferris, MSc

Youssef holds a master’s in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Calgary. He developed his work under the supervision of Dr. Roberto Souza. Youssef has a Mechanical Engineering degree with a specialization in Biomedical Engineering. His research focused on improving Magnetic Resonance imaging by leveraging multi-visit information. Youssef is passionate about developing improved data integration strategies to reduce medical imaging wait times. Youssef holds a CONP and an Alberta Graduate Excellence scholarships. Youssef is currently working at a Calgary-based start-up company named HelpWear.

Parisa Saat, MSc

Parisa has a master’s student in Software Engineering from the University of Calgary, working under the supervision of Dr. Hadi Hemmati and Dr. Roberto Souza. She received her B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Tehran. She is interested in applications of machine learning in healthcare and developing robust and generalized machine learning methods for medical applications. Her research is on domain adaption techniques for medical images. She specifically worked with brain magnetic resonance imaging segmentation. Parisa is currently working at a start-up company named Foqus Technologies.

Muhammad Athar Ganaie – BTech Chemicall Engineering (IIT Kharagpur)

Muhammad Athar Ganaie is a BTech student in Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He is also pursuing a Minor in Computer Science and a Micro Specialization in Artificial Intelligence. He will be visiting the University of Calgary under the MITACS Globalink Research Internship Program to work under the supervision of Dr. Roberto Souza to research auto domain adaptation techniques for brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) segmentation. He has previously worked on document analysis and information extraction from scientific charts (line charts, pie charts, etc.). He is interested in machine learning and the image applications of deep learning.

Muhammad Yusuf Hassan – BTech Electrical Engineering (IIT Gandhinagar)

Muhammad Yusuf Hassan is a BTech student in Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar. He will be visiting the University of Calgary under the MITACS Globalink Research Internship Program to work under the supervision of Dr Roberto Souza to research auto domain adaptation techniques for brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) segmentation. He has previously worked on document analysis and information extraction from scientific charts (line charts, pie charts, etc.). He is interested in machine learning and the image applications of deep learning.