Governor General’s Gold Medal awarded to ICICS Member’s PhD Student Mohammad Jafari

This article originally appeared on the Faculty of Applied Science website

Congratulations to Electrical nd Computer Engineering (ECE) PhD student Mohammad Jafari, who has been awarded the 2022 Governor General’s Gold Medal. This prestigious award goes to the graduating doctoral student who has achieved the most outstanding academic record in their year. Mohammad’s high-achieving studies took place under supervisor and ICICS member Purang Abolmaesumi at the Robotics and Control Laboratory, where he studied deep learning for medical imaging. After graduation, he will continue his investigations into artificial intelligence as technical director of AI at Aspect Biosystems, which was launched by another ICICS member, ECE Professor Konrad Walus. Read the full story.