Our Team

Meet the brilliant minds driving research at Vision Intelligence and Data Lab.

Faculty Graduate Students Master's Projects Collaborators Interns Undergraduate Students Alumni

Faculty

Faculty
Dr. Akilan, T. (Ph.D., P.Eng., SMIEEE)

Associate Professor
Department: Software Engineering, Lakehead University
takilan@lakeheadu.ca
ATAC5014
Office Hours: By appointment
Academic Profile Google Scholar

Graduate Students

Christopher Silver
Chee Mei Ling (Irene)

MSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Topic: A Deep Learning-driven Efficient Semantic Segmentation for Precision Agriculture.

Christopher Silver
Fahim Ur Rahman

MSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Topic: Lidar Point Cloud Analysis from Classification to Object Detection.

Christopher Silver
Gaeul Han

MSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Topic: Enhanced Object Detection in Thermal Imaging with Local Feature Fusion.

Christopher Silver
Jimmy Tsang

MSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Topic: Kidney Tumor Segmentation from CT Scans.

Russell Frost
Russell Frost

MSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Topic: Automated Music Transcription.

Thenukan Pathmanathan
Thenukan Pathmanathan

MSc in Computer Science with specialization in AI
Topic: Zero-shot Lidar Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation.

Dhivya Chandran
Dhivya Chandrasekaran

MSc in Computer Science with specialization in AI
Topic: Context-aware Semantic Segmentation.

Tara Mohammadzadeh Dogaheh
Tara Mohammadzadeh Dogaheh

MSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Topic: 3D Gait Recognition with Point Clouds.

James McDonagh
James McDonagh

MSc in Computer Science with specialization in AI
Topic: Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation.

Lilith Moon
Lilith Moon

MSc in Computer Science with specialization in AI
Topic: Video Semantic Segmentation and Matting.

Jay Kumar Patel
Jay Kumar Patel

PhD in Biotechnology
Topic: Medical Image Semantic Segmentation for Early Diagnosis.

Nurul Amirah Binti Mashudi
Nurul Amirah Binti Mashudi

PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Topic: Improving Iris Segmentation using GenAI Sample Generation
Exchange student under Canada-ASEAN Scholarships and Educational Exchanges for Development (SEED)

Master's Projects

Ebenezer Penoo

Dept. of ECE, Lakehead University
Project: Intent Prediction for Vehicle Platooning

Research Collaborators

Dr. Sima S.
Dr. Sima S. (Assistant Professor, York University)

Research Area: AI-driven MRI/fMRI preprocessing pipelines, including denoising, skull stripping, motion correction, registration, and segmentation.

Christopher Silver
Christopher Silver

Topic: Fall Detection and Eldercare
Spin-off: Silver Vantage Inc

Nowshad Ruhani
Nowshad Ruhani (Helsinki, Finland)

Topic: Predictive Analysis for EV Charging and Energy Storage Management (ESMS), (BMS).

Tony Braxton Tchio Ngoumeza
Tony Braxton Tchio Ngoumeza

Topic: Precision Agriculture.
Spin-off: green-shade.ca

Arunya Prasantha Senadeera
Arunya Prasantha Senadeera

Topic: Rehabilitation robotics, wheeled mobile robots, IoT hardware designs, ML/DL for robotics.
Homepage: www.arunyasenadeera.org

Interns

Kenneth Shahi
Kenneth Shahi

2nd Year Student at the Department of Software Engineering, Lakehead University
Topic: LIDAR 3D Point Cloud Analysis.

K. Kriti
K. Kriti

MITACS Global Research Internship 2024
Research:
Thermal Image-based Fall Detection.

Undergraduate Students

Current Projects
Said Ikki, James McKay, and Jamie Grasley

Dept. of Software Engineering, Lakehead University
Project: Bloom: An Open-Source Video Sharing Plugin for Jellyfin

Braydon Knezevic, David Loovere, Francisco Raposo, and Hanna Lahti

Dept. of Software Engineering, Lakehead University
Project: An AI-assisted System for Operational Efficiency

Second-Year Technical Projects
O. Ebube, O. Fortune, and U. Emmanue

Dept. of Software Engineering, Lakehead University
Project: Airline Reservation System

P. Stoppel, P. Curle, and M. Tommasini

Dept. of Software Engineering, Lakehead University
Project: Vision-Based Occupancy Tracker for Public Safety

O.Y. AlSaeedy, A.A. Jafri, and J. Thakkar

Dept. of Software Engineering, Lakehead University
Project: Higher Education Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System

Alumni

Graduate Alumni
Christopher Silver
Christopher Silver

MSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Topic: Thermal Imaging and Deep Learning-inspired Fall Detection Model—An Efficient Non-invasive Solution for Enhancing Elder Care. [read more]

Christopher Silver
Harish Sundaralingam

MSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Topic: Advancing Object Detection Models: An Investigation Focused on Small Object Detection in Complex Scenes.

Christopher Silver
Kevin Genereux

MSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Topic: Deep Learning-based Intracranial Hemorrhage Segmentation.

Christopher Silver
Nusrat Jahan

MSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Topic: An Improved Semi-Supervised Learning for Image Semantic Segmentation.

Siavash Hosseini
Siavash Hosseini

MSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Topic: Deep Regressor for Industrial Applications.

Tharrengini Suresh
Tharrengini Suresh

MSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Topic: Enhancing Semantic Segmentation Architectural Innovations and Strategies for Label-efficient Learning.

Mohammad Arshi-Saloot
Mohammad Arshi-Saloot

Postdoc
Topic: Advanced Automation System for Human Capital Hiring and Retention.

Mohadeseh Kaviani
Mohadeseh Kaviani

PhD, co-supervisor (Natural Resources Management)
Topic: Advanced algorithms for precision agriculture: from plant detection to health assessment.

Master's Projects Alumni
Mohit K. Patel, Jaydev D. Raval, Nishit G. Gangani, Kushagra Mandaliya

Dept. of Computer Science, Lakehead University
Project: Remote Sensing Image Semantic Segmentation with Graph-based Learning Method

Parth Lalitkumar Bhatt, Dhruva Shah

Dept. of Computer Science, Lakehead University
Project: Deep Feature-based Anomaly Detection for Video Surveillance

Hrishikesh Vachhani, Nisharaff Shaik, Yash Devmurari, Dhruvisha Patel

Dept. of Computer Science, Lakehead University
Project: GAT-based Pedestrian Segmentation in Infrared Data for Intelligent Transportation Systems

Jay Kumar Patel, Srinaksha Govinda Reddy

Dept. of Computer Science, Lakehead University
Project: Deep Learning-driven Automated Resume Screening and Ranking for Efficient Human Capital Hiring

Vedant Jagdishbhai Gabani, Darshan Gangaram Sarkale

Dept. of Computer Science, Lakehead University
Project: NLP-driven Content Classification Towards Fake News and Bully Detection

Dhruv A. Patel, Dhrumil Patel, J. Sai Kasturi, R. Ravidut Saxena

Dept. of Computer Science, Lakehead University
Project: Graph Attention Neural Network-based Brain Tumor Segmentation in MRIs

A. Hamid Ali, H. Parmar, K. Narula

Dept. of Computer Science, Lakehead University
Project: Graph Convolutional Neural Network-based Object Detection and Tracking

A. Muhammad (EXC)

Dept. of ECE, Lakehead University
Project: A Machine Learning System for IoT Anomaly Detections (EXC - An exchange student (2021 Summer - Fall) from Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Germany)

G. Taluja, R. Chadha, J. Sandhu, E. Johnson

Dept. of Computer Science, Lakehead University
Project: Visual-based SLAM using deep neural network

R. Salaria, M. Hemanthkumar Patel, D. Sanabohna, B. Hirpara

Dept. of Computer Science, Lakehead University
Project: Video Surveillance Anomaly Detection

N. Kumar Patel, A. Pandya, V. Kumar Patel, C.R. Samuel Rajkumar

Dept. of Computer Science, Lakehead University
Project: MRI Segmentation for Cancer Cell Detection

A. Thiagarajan, S. Thirumeni, B. Venkatesan, S. Guruswamy

Dept. of Computer Science, Lakehead University
Project: Image caption

Bhavin P., Harshit P., Manthan K., Nidhi P.

Dept. of Computer Science, Lakehead University
Project: Audio to sign language translation

S.T. Varma, B. Simranjit Kaur, R.S. Boddu, A. Bardhan

Dept. of Computer Science, Lakehead University
Project: Socio-economic analysis via satellite image processing

D. Shah, R. Mehta, Nishi Patel, Surya Y.

Dept. of Computer Science, Lakehead University
Project: Detection and clustering of duplicate defect report

Undergraduate Alumni
K. Kriti

Dept. of Software Engineering, Lakehead University
Project: Thermal Image-based Fall Detection

P. Curle, and M. Nisbet

Dept. of Software Engineering, Lakehead University
Project: TownHuall: A mobile App-based Shipping Delivery System for Remote Communities in Northern Ontario

N. Imperius, J. Tsang, and M. Tommasini

Dept. of Software Engineering, Lakehead University
Project: Smart Parking: An Android Application

J. Fiorot, J. Grasley, M. Grandell, and P. Stoppel

Dept. of Software Engineering, Lakehead University
Project: Machine Learning-based Music Recommendation System

S. Davey, C. Silver, and A. M. Velasquez

Dept. of Software Engineering, Lakehead University
Project: Thermopile Sensor-based Elderly Fall Detection and Warning System for Ensuring Fast Medical Aid

M. Martin, N.T. Merin, and C. Parmar

Dept. of Software Engineering, Lakehead University
Project: People Counting and Temperature Prediction for Automatic AC Controller System Towards Energy Saving Smart Home

F. Kharadi, S. McKenna, and E. Trudel

Dept. of Software Engineering, Lakehead University
Project: Fake News Detector Using Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing

R. Friesen, N. Ahmed, W. Bugden, and K. Dabhi

Dept. of Software Engineering, Lakehead University
Project: MRI Brain Tumor Segmentation Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network