Team

Alvine B. Belle is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at York University, Toronto, Canada. Her research focuses on generative AI, safety assurance,…

Andrew Fisher obtained an Honours BSc from Brandon University in 2019 and began his MSc with a specialization in artificial intelligence at Lakehead University. His studies were supported by a SSHRC G…

Muskan Garg is working as research associate with an academic rank of Assistant Professor in the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Informatics at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. Her research lies …

Abeer Badawi is a Postdoctoral Researcher with over 10 years of experience in AI, LLMs, Computer Engineering, and real-world healthcare applications. Her research focuses on Responsible AI; Safety and…

Arash Rasti is a postdoctoral fellow working on world models for biological and biomedical systems. His research focuses on applying advanced computational models to complex biological and biomedical …

Dawit Mekonen (PhD) is a health researcher and postdoctoral fellow at York University. His research interests centre on disability-inclusive perinatal care, maternal and reproductive health, health eq…

Dr. Debanjan Borthakur is a behavioural scientist and Connected Minds postdoctoral researcher at York University, Canada. He received his PhD in Psychology from the University of Toronto, where his re…

Dr. Frederic Pengfei Fu is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Course Director in the School of Health Policy and Management at York University. His research focuses on mental health, health equity, and the…

Arunim Garg is a PhD student in Health Systems Management and Health Data Analytics at York University and an EPIC-AT Fellow (AGE-WELL). His research builds and evaluates multilingual conversational h…

John investigates algorithmic fairness, bias, and equity in clinical Large Language Models and AI-enabled decision-support systems. His research integrates advanced statistical methods, including Baye…

Manmeet Kaur Baxi is a part-time PhD student in Health Systems Management and Health Data Analytics at York University, where her research sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, agentic …

Senior AI Developer at a Toronto-based startup, specializing in the design and evaluation of agentic workflows and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. Current research explores AI system arc…

Most Husne Jahan is a PhD student working on multimodal deep learning, image and video understanding, and reasoning in vision-language models. Her research focuses on medical image and video understan…

Negin Baghbanzadeh is a PhD student working on multimodal deep learning and reasoning in medical vision-language models, as well as model drift and adaptive evaluation. Her research includes medical r…

Pedram is a Ph.D. student in Health System Management and Health Data Analytics at York University. He holds a B.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, an M.Sc. in Economics, and an M.Sc. in Systems Science -…

Sevda Ebrahimi is a PhD student studying model drift, capability, and adaptive evaluation in clinical AI. Her work focuses on detecting harmful data shifts and improving reliable evaluation of biomedi…

Siyuan (Sabrina) Gao is a PhD student in Global Health at York University. She is also a member of Connected Minds. Her research focuses on digital mental health and algorithmic platforms, with atten…

Vaibhav Sawhney is a PhD researcher in Health Systems Management and Health Data Analytics at York University. He previously completed a Master’s in Health Systems Management and Health Data Analytics…

Yash Amethiya is pursuing PhD in Health (specialized in Health System Management and Health Data Analytics) at York University. His research, funded by Connected Minds CFREF, focuses on introducing de…

Jenna is a fifth-year undergraduate student at York University completing a Bachelor of Health Studies degree with a Specialized Honours major in Health Informatics. Her academic interests lie at the …

Rawan Dabboussi is an MA student in Critical Disability Studies at York University. She holds a BSc in Biochemistry and a Master's degree in Applied Biotechnology, with a research background in molecu…

Shayan Emzad is an MSc student involved in research on safe, human-aligned mental health AI and multimodal reasoning in medical vision-language models. His work bridges trustworthy conversational AI a…

Marco Antonio Serrano Saavedra is a PhD candidate in Advanced Information Technologies at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), with over 15 years of professional experience in data, analytics,…

Sepideh Nahali is a machine learning researcher working on world models for biological and biomedical systems. Her research focuses on applying machine learning to model complex biological and biomedi…