collaborations



iCORE’s proposal review processes are structured to ensure the unbiased review of all requests. The processes are tailored specifically for each grant program, and involve external peer review at different levels.

The Internal Review Committee is involved in the adjudication of all awards. It meets monthly to (1) determine whether to move major awards for chair and professor positions to external review, and (2) make final decision on minor awards such as strategic planning/recruiting or visiting professor awards.

The committee is made up of nine to eleven representatives from Alberta universities and industry. Potential IRC candidates are presented to the iCORE Board of Directors who give final approval for IRC membership.

Dr Ken Barker
Ken Barker earned his PhD in computing science from the University of Alberta and is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Calgary with expertise in database management systems. He is currently the Acting Head of the Department of Computer Science and will take up a five-year term as the Head on July 01, 2002. He has nearly 20 years of experience working with industrial computer systems and 15 years of consulting experience in the design of commercial databases. His particular interest is in system integration and distributed systems. Dr Barker has published more than 70 peer-reviewed publications in areas as diverse as distributed systems, software engineering, transaction systems, simulations and security. He has delivered over 20 industry-based courses on topics such as distributed database systems, datawarehousing, system integration, Unix, and XML.

 

Dr Michel Fattouche
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chief Technical Officer, Cell-Loc Location Technologies Inc.

Dr Michel Fattouche’s research work has led to 16 patents issued. Based on his patents in W-OFDM (Wide-band Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) he co-founded Wi-LAN Inc. in 1993. Most recently, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) announced that its "WirelessMAN" Standard 802.16a would incorporate Wi-LAN's patented W-OFDM technology.

Based on his patents on Super-Resolution, Dr. Fattouche also co-founded Cell-Loc Inc. in 1995 (which became Cell-Loc Location Technologies Inc. in 2003), the developer of a family of network-based wireless location products that enable location-sensitive services. Several networks have been deployed in Canada.

He has been named “Calgarian of the Year” by Business in Calgary Magazine in 2000, “Prairies Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2000 for Communications and Technology as part of the Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Program, and “Professor of the Year” by the Student Union for Teaching Excellence in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Calgary in 1999. He is also a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geophysicist of Alberta.

He holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University, a BSc in Applied Mathematics from Ain Shams University, and a MSc and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto.

 

Dr Robert Fedosejevs
C.R. James/MPBT/NSERC Senior Industrial Research Chair in Laser and Spectroscopic Techniques Applied to the Natural Resources Industry Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta.

Dr Fedosejevs has over 25 years experience in the development of laser systems and their applications in various areas including fusion energy research, the generation of XUV and soft x-ray radiation for lithography applications, micromachining, thin film coatings and studies in ultrafast phenomena.

Dr Fedosejevs' past research and development work includes the development and application of picosecond optical probe techniques to the study of high power laser-plasma interactions and high temperature plasma phenomena. He has been a visiting scientist at the National Research Council of Canada, the Max-Planck-Institute for Quantenoptik in Germany and at the Institute for Laser Engineering at Osaka University in Japan. He has worked on a number of laser systems including high power nanosecond carbon-dioxide, iodine and glass lasers, picosecond glass and krypton fluoride lasers, and femtosecond krypton fluoride and Ti:Sapphire laser systems. With these systems he has studied a number of high temperature plasma phenomena including x-ray generation, hydrodynamics of the laser produced plasmas and applications in micromachinging and thin film coatings. Dr Fedosejevs has published over 80 research papers.

 

Ken Gamble
Ken Gamble works for the Alberta Research Council as an industrial technology advisor (ITA) with the National Research Council's Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP). Mr. Gamble has been in the information technology sector since the early 1980s and has undertaken research in a number of areas including artificial intelligence, expert systems, neural networks and has been involved in object oriented programming since the introduction of Smalltalk 80. He was head of the Advanced Computing and Engineering Department of the Alberta Research Council, a group of 35 staff including computer scientists and technicians. In that role he performed all aspects of managing a research and technology transfer program in advanced computing including strategic planning, program implementation, personnel, financial and administrative management. He has also been actively involved in the activities of the Alberta information technology community including member of the board of CCAT (Calgary Council for Advanced Technology), WurcNet Inc. (now Netera Alliance), AITA (Alberta Information Technology Association), member of various industrial advisory boards for SAIT, the universities of Calgary and Alberta, and a number of regional and national committees.

 

Peter Garrett
Garrett and Associates Inc.
Pete Garrett is a consultant sought for his expertise in corporate management and technology commercialization. Recently, as President and Chief Executive Officer of Global Thermoelectric Inc, he drove the successful merger of Global with FuelCell Energy Inc creating over $100M in new value for shareholders. Prior to joining Global, he had a 21 year career at Nortel Networks where, for the last four years, he was Vice President of Wireless Product Development. In this role, he had global responsibility for development of Nortel’s second and third generation of North American standard wireless products, and managed a group of 1200 engineers and scientists in seven labs on four continents. He is a member of the Board of Management of the Alberta Science and Research Authority, where he chairs the Innovation Task Force and co-chairs the Access to Capital Task Force. He is also a member of the board of the Calgary Center for Innovative Technology (CCIT) at the University of Calgary. He graduated with distinction from the University of Calgary in 1980 with a BSc in electrical engineering.

 

Randy Goebel
R.G. (Randy) Goebel is President and CEO of iCORE, seconded from his role as professor and chair in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta. He has previously held faculty appointments at the University of Waterloo and the University of Tokyo, and visiting research appointments with the Deutsche Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) Germany, National ICT Institute Australia (NICTA), Real World Computing project (RWC), Institute for New Generation Computing (ICOT), Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan, and Multi-Media University (MMU), Malaysia.

He is currently actively involved in academic and industrial collaborative research projects in Canada, Australia, Japan, Germany and Malaysia. In his work with industry, he has participated as the research advisor on several industrial projects involving crew scheduling, manufacturing scheduling, transportation logistics, steel mill operation, and pipeline scheduling with companies like CN (Canadian National Railways), Syncrude, and Hatch. He is on the board of directors of Net-linx (www.net-linx.com), an international publishing software company, and on the board of PRECARN Associates (www.precarn.ca), a national, member-owned industrial consortium supporting the development of intelligent systems technologies.

He is co-author with David Poole and Alan Mackworth of a widely used textbook, Computational Intelligence: A Logical Approach, published by Oxford University Press. he is also the editor of Computational Intelligence, an international journal published by Blackwell, and past member of the editorial board of AI Communications, the European journal on artificial intelligence.

He has been a program committee member and chair of numerous international workshops and conferences in AI-related areas and past chair of the steering committee for Pacific Rim International Conferences on AI. Dr Goebel’s research is focused on the theory and application of intelligent systems. He is a researcher in the Alberta Ingenuity Centre for Machine Learning, located at the University of Alberta. His theoretical work on abduction, hypothetical reasoning and belief revision is well known, and his recent application of practical belief revision and constraint programming to scheduling, layout, and web mining is now having industrial impact. His most recent research interests are in web mining, machine learning and visualization. He received his BSc (Computer Science) from the University of Regina, his MSc (Computing Science) from the University of Alberta, and PhD (Computer Science) from the University of British Columbia.

 

Dr Jim Haslett
Jim Haslett is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Leader of the VLSI Group at the University of Calgary. Dr. Haslett's research interests lie in analogue CMOS and BICMOS IC design, RF integrated circuits for telecommunications, oilfield and other instrumentation, CCD imagers, high temperature electronics, and noise. In addition, Dr. Haslett teaches in the areas of bipoloar/CMOS analogue integrated circuit design, analogue CMOS IC design, and digital integrated circuit design. In his spare time, Dr. Haslett enjoys fishing.

 

Wayne Karpoff
 Vice President, CTO, YottaYotta
Prior to co-founding YottaYotta, Wayne Karpoff served as President of Myrias Computer Technologies, a Canadian manufacturer of parallel supercomputer technology. During his 18 years of advanced technology experience, he has been responsible for leading-edge projects in both hardware and software. He earned a BSc and MSc in Computer Science from the University of Alberta.

 

Dr Tony Marsland
Tony Marsland is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Alberta. Dr. Marsland's current research interests include distributed systems and tree-searching. Dr. Marsland is a member of the University of Alberta Chapter of the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society as well as a member and Past President of the International Computer Chess Association. Dr. Marsland is a professional engineer and received his Ph.D. and M.S.E. degrees from the University of Washington and his B.Sc. degree (with honours) from Nottingham University.

Bruce Matichuk
Bruce Matichuk is Founder, Chair and CTO of Celcorp. He has been the architect and the driving force behind Celcorp's technology and has played a key role in the planning, strategy and development of past and current product offerings. He also has been instrumental in delivering the technical architecture necessary for key Global 2000 e-Business applications that perform supply chain management, customer service and procurement. Mr Matichuk is a recognized authority on Internet application architectures and has been a featured speaker at FedNet, NetCon, CUMREC, Internet World, Common, and other international conferences. He also currently serves on the Industrial Internship Boards of Science and Computing Science at the University of Alberta, where he joins many of the technology industry leaders in Alberta. Prior to starting Celcorp, Bruce co-founded a computer consulting and training firm. He also previously worked on research and commercial projects involving manufacturing automation, financial systems implementations, business process re-engineering, and automated machine learning. Bruce holds a B.Sc. degree in computing science with a major in software design from the University of Alberta.

Dan Wilson
Dan Wilson is a Chief Scientist with Invidi Technologies Corporation and has more than 20 years of experience in software development. Before joining Invidi, he was Vice President of Precise Systems Corporation and a founder of Myrias Research Corporation, a developer of parallel processing supercomputers. At Myrias, Wilson was director of software and systems development. Wilson also worked at AT&T Bell Labs and the Department of Computer Science of the University of Alberta.