Where ideas leave the notebook. 

UbiSensing & AI Lab

Reading prairie drought from space

Classifying agricultural drought in the South Saskatchewan River Basin from Sentinel-2 imagery and vegetation and moisture indices.

Co-authored “Labels Over Models”, an oral presentation at Earth Precision Agriculture 2026 in Calgary

Supervisor · Dr. Sara Saeedi

Biometric Technologies Lab

Language & mental health

Human-centric NLP for depression-care conversations, mapping dialogue to DSM-5 symptoms.

Contributed to an accepted human-centric AI book chapter

Supervisors · Dr. Marina Gavrilova, Dr. Peter Baylis, Dr. Mariana Bento

MESSI Lab

Early Alzheimer’s diagnosis

Interpretable, multimodal AI combining speech, sleep EEG and MRI toward early, non-invasive detection.

Supervisor · Dr. Novarun Deb

University of Calgary

Alzheimer’s vs normal pressure hydrocephalus

A visual, explainable AI system on T1-weighted MRI to tell apart two conditions that can look alike.

Supervisors · Dr. Mario Costa Sousa, Dr. Usman Alim

AI2Lab

Brain-age prediction

3D deep-learning models with MONAI and PyTorch that estimate brain age from MRI scans.

Alberta Innovates Summer Research Studentship

Supervisor · Dr. Roberto Medeiros de Souza

Vision Research Lab

Wheat-head detection

Where it started: YOLOv8 wheat-head detection for precision agriculture, plus synthetic training data generated in Unity.

PURE Undergraduate Research Award

Supervisor · Dr. Farhad Maleki