Employment History (20012-Present)

Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Western Ontario, July 2012 to present:
  • Lectured several graduate/undergraduate courses
  • Wrote several successful research proposals
  • Published several research papers
  • Read and examined several Master's and Ph.D. theses
  • Appointed and served as a chair of the following departmental committees:
    • Computer Science Space Committee, july 2016 - June 2017
    • Computer Science Outreach Committee, July 2013 - June 2016
  • Elected and served as a member in the following departmental committees:
    • Annual Performance Evaluation Committee, July 2011 - June 2012 and July 2016 - June 2017
    • Workload Committee, July 2013 - June 2014, and July 2016 - June 2017
    • Appointments Committee, July 2012 - June 2014
  • Appointed and served as a member in the following departmental committees:
    • Graduate Executive Policy Committee, July 2016 - June 2017
    • Computer Science Outreach Committee, July 2016 - June 2017
    • Undergraduate Counseling Committee, July 2012 - June 2017
    • Timetable Committee, July 2015 - June 2016
    • Awards & Scholarships Committee, July 2014 - June 2016
  • Served as a judge at the CSD graduate research conference (UWORCS), winters of 2012 and 2013
  • Gave seminars at Topical Research In Computer Science (TRICS) departmental seminar series
    • "Image Compression: the Art of Weeding out Redundancies", October 2014
  • Invited to give a lecture at CS2125 (Introduction to Medical Computing), winter 2012, fall 2012, winter 2015 and winter 2016
  • Invited to give a talk at CSUS (the Computer Science Undergraduate Society), winter 2015, fall 2016
  • Invited to give a talk at Annual Undergraduate Computer Science/Applied Math Colloquium, winter 2016
  • Participated as an academic adviser in the Summer Academic Orientation program, summer 2012 - summer 2014
  • Appointed as an Editorial Board member for the Elsevier Pattern Recognition journal (September 2006 - present) (handling more than 25 submissions per year)
  • Served as a panel chair in the OGS Physical Sciences selection committee, winter 2012
  • Served as a referee for NSERC in various programs, including NSERC Idea to Innovation Program (summer 2012), NSERC Discovery Grants Program (winter 2013, winter 2014 and winter 2016)
  • Participated as a member at the National Scholarship Adjudication Committee, Faculty of Science, winter 2013 and winter 2014
  • Successfully completed the following online courses:
    • WHMIS New, May 2016
    • Supervisor Health and Safety Awareness, May 2016
    • Mental Health Interactive Learning Module, May 2016
    • Accessibility at Western (AODA) - Accessibility in Teaching, May 2016
    • Safe Campus Community- Preventing Harassment, Violence and Domestic Violence, May 2016