Our people
The LIVIA Team
13 regular members and ~100 graduate students working across computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence. We are recruiting, see open positions.
Faculty & Researchers
Professors & principal investigators

Eric Granger
Full Professor, Systems Engineering- FRQS co-Chair in AI & Digital Health
- Deep learning, face recognition, video analytics

Ismail Ben Ayed
Professor, Systems Engineering- Convex & graph-cut optimization
- Medical image analysis, computer vision

Patrick Cardinal
Professor, Software & IT Engineering- Speech recognition, language ID
- Emotion detection

Christian Desrosiers
Professor, Software & IT Engineering- Data mining, machine learning
- Recommender systems

José Dolz
Associate Professor, Software & IT Eng.- Medical image analysis, deep learning
- Weakly-supervised learning

Marco Pedersoli
Professor, Systems Engineering- Computer vision, deep learning
- Weakly-supervised learning

Alessandro L. Koerich
Professor, Software & IT Engineering- Computer vision, machine learning
- Biometrics

Vincent Duchaine
Professor, Software & IT Engineering- Robotics, mechatronics
- Haptics & tactile sensors

Matthew Toews
Professor, Software & IT Engineering- Computer vision, medical imaging
- Information theory

Rafael Menelau O. e Cruz
Professor, Software & IT Engineering- Multiple classifier systems
- AutoML, meta-learning, biometrics

Mohamad Forouzanfar
Associate Professor, Software & IT Eng.- Wearable medical systems
- Cardiovascular & sleep technology

Mohammadhadi Shateri
Assistant Professor, Systems Eng.- Data privacy in machine learning
- Deep generative models, RL

Robert Sabourin
Professor Emeritus, Software & IT Eng.- Pattern recognition, biometrics
- Ensembles, handwriting verification
Graduate Students & Staff
Current students & research staff
SB
Soufiane Belharbi
Postdoctoral Fellow
Shakeeb Murtaza
Postdoctoral Fellow

Nairouz Mrabah
Postdoctoral Fellow

Muhammad Osama Zeeshan
Ph.D., Machine Learning

Muhammad Haseeb Aslam
Ph.D., Systems Engineering
GP
Gnana Praveen R
Ph.D.

Heitor Rapela Medeiros
Ph.D.
JD
Jonathan de Matos
Ph.D.
JR
Jerome Rony
Ph.D.
MK
Madhu Kiran
Ph.D.
KG
Karthik Gopinath
Ph.D.
HK
Hoel Kervadec
Ph.D.

Le Thanh Nguyen-Meidine
Ph.D.

Imtiaz Ziko
Ph.D.
MB
Malik Boudiaf
Ph.D.
OA
Odilon Allognon
Ph.D.
TP
Thiago Paixão
Ph.D.

Saypraseuth Mounsaveng
Ph.D.

Akhil P. M.
Ph.D.
ME
Mohammad Esmaeilpour
Ph.D.
SA
Sajjad Abdoli
Ph.D.

Farzad Beizaee
M.Sc.

Faramarz Farhangian
M.Sc., Artificial Intelligence

Mohsen Benlazreg
M.Sc.
FR
Félix Rémigereau
M.Sc.
DM
Djebril Mekhazni
M.Sc.

Maximilien Dufau
M.Sc.

Julien Nicolas
Research, LOG-TI
Alumni
Where they started
Shakeeb Murtaza
Ph.D.

Jizong Peng
Postdoctoral Fellow
HE
Houssem Eddine Gueziri
Ph.D.
JD
Jawad Dahmani
Ph.D.
AJ
Alpa J. Shah
Ph.D.
AA
Amirmahdi Akhlaghi
Ph.D.
ZK
Zeinab Kermansaravi
Ph.D.
FC
François-Pierre Chartrand-Dufresne
M.Sc.
FB
Fadoua Berdai
M.Sc.
WA
Wassim Azzabi
M.Sc.
FB
Florian Berton
M.Sc.
JP
J. P. Morin
M.Sc.
ÉR
Étienne Rocheleau
M.Sc.
SK
Stefan Karnyaczki
M.Sc.
JP
J. P. Martin
M.Sc.
IA
Ibtihel Amara
M.Sc.