UNB Computer Science Research Expo 2008

Associate Professor, Faculty of Computer Science, UNB Fredericton. Principle investigators of the research projects including Graph Partitioning for High Performance Computing, Heterogeneous Parallelization of Algorithms for RNA structure Discovery, Time Parallelization of Initial Value Partial Differential Equations, and Behavioural Specification of Hardware Circuits using OpenMP.

Virendra Bhavsar

Professor and Dean, Faculty of Computer Science, UNB Fredericton. Director of Advanced Computational Research
Laboratory. Intelligent Systems: Applications for e-business and e-Learning. Bioinformatics: Intelligent agents for automatic annotation of genomic sequences (funded by Genome Canada, Genome Atlantic, Atlantic Innovation Fund and New Brunswick Innovation Foundation). Parallel/ Distributed Computing: Partitioning Mesh-based Applications for Computational Grids, Concurrent Generation of Fractals, Modeling of Computational Grids. He is a member of the Research Directorate, ACEnet (Atlantic Computational Excellence Network) - a $30 million high performance computing initiative in Atlantic Canada.

Barrie Black

President and CEO of The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF). Barrie Black Mr. Black was the former Vice-President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Aliant Inc. Black has a broad range of operational experience combined with a corporate legal background. As general counsel of NBTel, he was a key player in developing and advancing the company’s innovation agenda. He also oversaw the successful merger of four telecommunications companies resulting in a corporate structure with more than 85 companies. Prior to joining Aliant, he was provincial manager for Irving Oil Limited, responsible for all the company’s Nova Scotia operations. Prior to that, he was Vice-President and General Counsel of Nova Scotia Savings & Loan Company, accountable for lending and deposits operations as well as legal proceedings. Black holds Bachelor Degrees in Arts and Law from Dalhousie University in Halifax. While at Dalhousie, he was an outstanding student athlete. Black also holds a Master of Laws degree from the University of London, Kings College, London, England. In 2003, Black was the recipient of the Queen’s Golden Jubilee medal, which was awarded to Canadians who have made a significant contribution to their fellow citizens, their community or to Canada.

William "Sandy" Bird

Sandy Bird, co-founder and CTO of Q1 Labs, is responsible for the company's strategic technology direction. Sandy has extensive technology experience specializing in database design and development for web applications. Prior to Q1 Labs, he held a variety of technical positions at the University of New Brunswick in support, development and administration. Sandy studied Electrical Engineering at the University of New Brunswick.

Mark D'Arcy

President and VP of Knowledge Design, Knowledge Atlas Inc. Mark D'Arcy has a Bachelor of Science Degree, Honours at the University of New Brunswick. Mark was enrolled in the University of Toronto Pathology graduate studies program when he first started working on the concepts for Knowledge Atlas. He has worked as a Research and Development Project Coordinator for CARIS, a world leader in spatial information management systems. Mark founded Knowledge Atlas Inc. to develop innovative wayfinding and learning tools for the Web, tools that allow users of search engines and social networking sites to be more effective in their finding and browsing strategies.

John DeDourek

Professor, Faculty of Computer Science, UNB Fredericton. Principle investigator of AIF Communication Networks and Service Research. His current research is focused on data networks. He is also interested in the newer wireless networks as well as the more traditional wired (and fiber) networks, especially network performance, particularly for real time flows such as audio and video.

Gerhard Dueck

Professor, Faculty of Computer Science, UNB Fredericton. He has been actively involved in the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Multiple-Valued Logic, where he severed as chair in 1998 and 1999. He was program chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic in 1993, 2004 and 2008 and symposium chair in 1997. His research interests include reversible logic, Reed Muller expansions, multiple-valued logic, and digital design. He has published more than 40 refereed technical papers in international journals and conference proceedings.

Ali Ghorbani

Professor and Assistant Dean (Research and Outreach), Faculty of Computer Science, UNB. Director of Information Security Centre of Excellence, Director of Intelligent and Adaptive Systems (IAS) Laboratory and Network and Information Security (NIS) Laboratory, Project leader of Adaptive Websites R&D project, Project leader of Fast Intrusion Detection & Response System (FAST ID) project.

Ken Kent

Associate professor, Faculty of Computer Science, UNB Fredericton. He received his B.Sc hons. (1996) from Memorial University, M.Sc (1999), and Ph.D. (2003) degrees from the University of Victoria. His areas of interest have started from networks and evolved through distributed computing, parallel computing, virtual machines, and hardware/software co-design. Through this path, he has also been involved in software engineering, embedded systems, and reconfigurable computing.

Bernd Kurz

Retired Professor, Faculty of Computer Science, UNB Fredericton. Principle investigator of AIF Communication Networks and Service Research. His current research centers about data communications and networking. This research addresses emerging technologies in wireless networks, from WWAN to WPAN and deals primarily with mobility enablers in global heterogeneous networks, and with applications for mobile end user devices, such as laptops, PDAs and Smartphones. In addition, QoS-enabling multi-tier handoff and other protocols for non-conventional link media in a variable-delay/harsh-error environment are researched.

William Langley

Technology Advisor with the NRC-Industrial Research Assistance Programme in New Brunswick since 1993 specializing in the area of software and Ebusiness applications. In this capacity he has sponsored leading edge software development projects in a range of small companies and start-ups. This has included extensive business and technology mentoring to early stage companies across the Maritime Region. Considerable experience in this mix has been gained in assisting university spin-offs and technology transfer scenarios through the full business cycle to commercialization.

Eddie Oldfield

Eddie Oldfield works as Director of the New Brunswick Climate Change Hub and Mapping Initiatives for the New Brunswick Lung Association. Mr. Oldfield has coordinated over 80 partners in Canada and the United States to develop a web-based map application and share over 1,600 layers of geospatial content in the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure. Mr. Oldfield was invited to speak at various national and international conferences regarding climate change, respiratory health, and the use of web-based geographical information systems.

Gerry Pond

As Chairman of Mariner Partners, Inc., Gerry brings over 40 years of in-depth experience in the information and communications technology industry and is the driving force behind the formation of Mariner Partners, Inc. Having been the President of Aliant Telecom and CEO of NBTel during a period of significant deregulation in the Canadian industry, Gerry continues to demonstrate his ability to successfully restructure companies, while delivering revenue growth and strong operating results. Gerry has also proven to be an innovator with such start-up IT companies as Q1 Labs, iMagicTV, and Brovada Technologies.

Sandeep Singh

Sandeep is the Project Manager with Exigen (Canada) Inc. on Business Domain Ontology Development Framework (BDODF) project. Sandeep also worked as a Software Engineer at Exigen from 2005 to 2006. He played an important role in developing the proposal for BDODF, which eventually landed the R&D grant (~1.9m) from ACOA under AIF program. His contribution played a pivotal role in achieving the collaborative research contracts between Exigen and University of New Brunswick, as well as between University of New Brunswick and National Research Council of Canada. As a software engineer, Sandeep was member of team that developed Intelligent Domain Analysis Tool (IDAT), a precursory prototype for BDODF. It was well received by users and proved to be the base for BDODF.

Bruce Spencer

Dr. Bruce Spencer was a Professor of Computer Science at the University of New Brunswick's Faculty of Computer Science from 1990 until 2001. He is a Senior Research in the Internet Logic Group at the Institute for
Information Technology, National Research Council of Canada. He has a BSc (Dalhousie, 1980), a MMath (Waterloo 1983), and a Ph.D.(Waterloo, 1991).

Mihaela Ulieru

Professor and NSERC Canada Research Chair, Faculty of Computer Science, UNB. Professor Ulieru is Member of the Government of Canada's new Science, Technology and Innovation Council (2007-2010). She also established (with Canada Foundation for Innovation funding) and leads the Adaptive Risk Management Laboratory (ARM Lab) researching Complex Systems as Control Paradigm for Complex Networks to develop Holistic Security Ecosystems. Her current research is focused on the Cyberengineering of resilient eNetworks (Cyber-Physical Ecosystems) and their applications to security (critical infrastructure protection, emergency response management), e-Health (pandemic mitigation) and networked manufacturing. One highlight of her most recent endeavors is a collaborative project on 'Emulating the Mind'.