My professional interests revolve around signal processing, machine learning, and their applications in image and video processing, coding, communications, and collaborative intelligence. My group's work has received a number of international recognitions, including the 2023 IEEE TCSVT Best Paper Award, conference paper awards at ISCAS 2023, MMSP 2022, ICIP 2019, and ICME 2012, as well as other recognitions (e.g., paper award finalist, top n%) at Asilomar, ICIP, ICME, ISBI, and CVPR. This is in large part due to my outstanding students, among whom are recipients of the Vanier Scholarship, multiple Governor General's Gold Medalists, NSERC Doctoral and Masters Scholars, and winners of competitive conference travel grants.
Besides professional life, I am also a wine enthusiast. I’ve been fortunate enough to visit some of the top wine producing regions in the world in the last number of years, including the Napa and Sonoma valleys in California, Cape Town/Stellenbosch region in South Africa, La Rioja in Spain, Douro valley in Portugal, Chianti in Italy and, closer to home, Okanagan and Cowichan valleys in British Columbia, as well as the Olympic Peninsula wineries in Washington State.