MSc Students

Christian Wiewelhove

Christian is a MSc student, supervised by Rebecca Tyson at the University of British Columbia – Okanagan. His research project is the Modeling of predator-prey dynamics of Goshawks and Squirrels.

Daniel Pelletier

Daniel is a MSc student, supervised by Arne Mooers at Simon Fraser University. His area of research is Conservation population genetics. The title of Daniel’s project is Genetic consequences of extreme climate-related events and the implications for management under global change.

Lihini Kankanamge

Lihini is a MSc student, supervised by Stephanie Portet at the University of Manitoba. Her area of research is Mathematical biology and the title of her project is A Mathematical Approach to Investigate the Protein Aggregation in Alexander’s Disease.

Puneet Velidi

Puneet is a MSc student, supervised by Farouk Nathoo and Michelle Miranda at the University of Victoria. His area of research is neuroscience and statistics and the title of his project is Bayesian Analysis of TransPhoM-DS.

PhD Students

Arjun Banik

Arjun is a PhD student, supervised by Laura Cowen and Saman Muthukumarana at the University of Victoria. Arjun’s area of research is Statistical Ecology and the title of Arjun’s project is Bayesian Multistate Capture Recapture Modelling on Marine Species.

Aditya Bhartia

Aditya is a PhD student, supervised by Hao Wang at the University of Alberta. His area of research is  Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems.

Ghazale Farjam

Ghazale is a PhD student, supervised by Julien Arino at the University of Manitoba. Her area of research is Mathematical Epidemiology and Dynamical Systems and the title of her project is Modeling Viral Pathogen Transmission Among Four Fish Species in \linebreak the Western Canadian Arctic: A Discrete-Time Stage-Structured Approach

Kévan Rastello

Kévan is a PhD student, supervised by Mark Lewis at the University of Victoria.  His areas of research are Quantitative ecology, Ecophysiology, Dynamic Energy Budget theory and the title of his project is Modeling the Impact of Climate Change on Mountain Pine Beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) Cryoprotection Energy Allocation.

Mahdi Salehzadeh 

Mahdi is a PhD student, supervised by Aileen MacPherson at Simon Fraser University. His area of research is Evolution, Ecology, and Epidemiology.

Yihang Chen

Yihang is a PhD student, supervised by Hua Shen at the University of Calgary. Her areas of research are Synthesizing heterogeneity longitudinal patient data using Dynamic Bayesian networks.

Yuxuan Chen

Yuxuan is a PhD student, supervised by Qingrun Zhang at the University of Calgary. The title of their project is Mathematical Framework for Integrative Representation Learning in Multi-Omics Data: An Application on Drug Response Prediction in Precision Oncology.

Postdocs

Clotilde Djuikem

Clotilde is a Postdoctoral Fellow, supervised by Julien Arino (University of Manitoba). Her area of research is mathematical epidemiology, deterministic and stochastic models. The title of her project is Study the transmission of viral pathogens among four fish species in the Western Canadian Arctic, considering the impact of climate change.

Matthew Schmirler

Matthew is a Postdoctoral Fellow, supervised by Chris Soteros at the University of Saskatchewan. His area of research is DNA Topology, Statistical Physics, Markov Chain Monte Carlo. The title of his project is Developing Lattice Polygon Models of R-Loops, Optimizing Lattice Models of DNA to Experimental DNA Knotting Probabilities.