Thursday February 28th, 2019 at 12:15 p.m. Prof. Shahram (Sean) Yousefi, Ph.D., P.Eng, Co-founder, President, and CEO of MESH Scheduling Inc will be presenting “Harmony: beyond win-win for an ailing healthcare system”. Day & Time: Thursday February 28th, 2019 12:15 p.m. ‐ 1:15 p.m. Speaker: Prof. Shahram (Sean) Yousefi, Ph.D., P.Eng Professor and Associate Dean, Corporate Relations, Queen’s University Co-founder, President, and CEO MESH Scheduling Inc Organizers: IEEE Toronto EMBS, and IEEE WIE Location: TRI-UC, Basement Lecture theatre 550 University Ave., Toronto, M5G 2A2 Contact: fboskovic@ridoutmaybee.com Abstract: Does Canada have a better healthcare system or the US? In this talk, we speak about some of the known as well as hidden issues in healthcare and workforce and provide some surprising comparative arguments. Humans, machines, and algorithms must learn important lessons and everything should come together from policy and strategy to processes and tools to save us! MESHAI.io has focused on helping reduce the largest component in healthcare cost by listening to the frontline providers and making sure they are well taken care of. Join us to hear about our point of view in this regard and on “Socially Intelligent Staff Scheduling” in healthcare. How can we do better? Where can you help? Biography: Prof. Shahram Yousefi is a passionate problem-solver with a strong belief that people are our biggest assets in every team. He believes a balanced approach towards learning, growth, and harmony is key to create success for the individuals as well as organizations.Prof. Yousefihas held positions at Edward S. Rogers Sr. department of electrical and computer engineering, University of Toronto, Canada, Ecole Polytechnique Fédéralde Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, Jilin University, China, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, and department of electrical and computer engineering of Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, where he is currently a tenured full professor and Associate Dean, Corporate Relations. Shahram also serves as the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Canadian journal of electrical and computer engineering. Prof. Shahram’sresearch interests lie in communications, cloud systems, big data, networks, information theory, signal processing, control, optimization, and algorithms in which he holds a number of patents. He has co-founded CanarmonyCorp., MESH Scheduling Inc., and OPTT Inc. to apply algorithms to make life better and more harmonious in healthcare and workforce management. One of Shahram’spatents in the area of data storage has recently been licensed to a Queen’s University startup to revolutionize a $500b solid state/cloud storage industry. Prof. Yousefi is an advisor to a number of technology, healthcare, and education startups
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We will be having our weekly programming session Friday March 1 at 5:10 pm in room F310. Snacks and Codes will be served! We will continue our format of splitting off into groups for the first hour to help the new members catch up, the second hour will be preparation for IEEE Xtreme, and the 3rd hour will be dedicated to whatever interests the group that day (so bring your questions and ideas)! We will also continue our smart city project discussions! Bring your laptop with you! Day & Time: Friday March 1st, 2019 5:10 p.m. ‐ 7:00 p.m. Speaker: Andew Rudder Humber College Professor Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, Humber Student Branch Location: Humber College North Campus, Room F310 Contact: IEEE Humber |
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We will be having our weekly programming session Friday March 8 at 5:10 pm in room F310. Snacks and Codes will be served! We will continue our format of splitting off into groups for the first hour to help the new members catch up, the second hour will be preparation for IEEE Xtreme, and the 3rd hour will be dedicated to whatever interests the group that day (so bring your questions and ideas)! We will also continue our smart city project discussions! Bring your laptop with you! Day & Time: Friday March 8th, 2019 5:10 p.m. ‐ 7:00 p.m. Speaker: Andew Rudder Humber College Professor Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, Humber Student Branch Location: Humber College North Campus, Room F310 Contact: IEEE Humber |
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We will be having our weekly programming session Friday March 15 at 5:10 pm in room F310. Snacks and Codes will be served! We will continue our format of splitting off into groups for the first hour to help the new members catch up, the second hour will be preparation for IEEE Xtreme, and the 3rd hour will be dedicated to whatever interests the group that day (so bring your questions and ideas)! We will also continue our smart city project discussions! Bring your laptop with you! Day & Time: Friday March 15th, 2019 5:10 p.m. ‐ 7:00 p.m. Speaker: Andew Rudder Humber College Professor Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, Humber Student Branch Location: Humber College North Campus, Room F310 Contact: IEEE Humber |
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Day & Time: Sunday March 17th, 2019 12:00 p.m. ‐ 4:00 p.m. Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE Location: Apple and Beeton Hall Reference Library, Toronto |
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We will be having our weekly programming session Friday March 22 at 5:10 pm in room F310. Snacks and Codes will be served! We will continue our format of splitting off into groups for the first hour to help the new members catch up, the second hour will be preparation for IEEE Xtreme, and the 3rd hour will be dedicated to whatever interests the group that day (so bring your questions and ideas)! We will also continue our smart city project discussions! Bring your laptop with you! Day & Time: Friday March 22nd, 2019 5:10 p.m. ‐ 7:00 p.m. Speaker: Andew Rudder Humber College Professor Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, Humber Student Branch Location: Humber College North Campus, Room F310 Contact: IEEE Humber |
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We will be having our weekly programming session Friday March 29 at 5:10 pm in room F310. Snacks and Codes will be served! We will continue our format of splitting off into groups for the first hour to help the new members catch up, the second hour will be preparation for IEEE Xtreme, and the 3rd hour will be dedicated to whatever interests the group that day (so bring your questions and ideas)! We will also continue our smart city project discussions! Bring your laptop with you! Day & Time: Friday March 29th, 2019 5:10 p.m. ‐ 7:00 p.m. Speaker: Andew Rudder Humber College Professor Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, Humber Student Branch Location: Humber College North Campus, Room F310 Contact: IEEE Humber |
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