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Amir H. Ghaseminejad Canada |
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EDUCATION |
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2007-2019
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Simon Fraser University, Faculty Of Communication, Art And Technology, School of communication, Burnaby, Canada. Ph.D. in Communication Variables Relevant to Citizen Participatory Engagement in Technology-Mediated Democratic Systems The mixed-mode study is to identify variables relevant to citizen participation in advanced technology-mediated democratic systems while avoiding scientific reductionism as much as possible. Based on primary data from a comprehensive survey with 1048 questions, and in-depth interviews conducted by the author, associations between seven classes of participation and five groups of predictors are analyzed. To analyze the data, only non-parametric ordinal methods are used. Adapted from methods of big data analysis, false discovery rate criterion is used in a novel way to deal with the issues of high-dimensionality in ordinal analysis. |
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1989
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Sharif University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Tehran, Iran. M.Sc. in Research Field of Electrical Engineering in Computer Hardware. Software and hardware design and implementation research: Received top rank in “computer hardware graduate degree” entrance exam, graduated with best result in the field and ranked the third in the national PHD scholarship exam. |
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1986
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Sharif University Of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Tehran, Iran. B.S. Degree in Electronic Engineering First B.Sc. research: Graphic package for C language. (Graphic Input/Output System and C library for NEC 7220 graphic processor for NCR-DMV) Second B.Sc. research: Advanced graphic library for C language. (Graphic Input/Output System and C library for CPM86 NEC-APC graphic processor) |
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RESEARCH |
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2012-2019 |
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada School of Communication Variables Relevant to Citizen Participatory Engagement in Technology-Mediated Democratic Systems |
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2007-Present |
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada The Institute for Canadian Urban Research Studies (ICURS), Researcher -Design and development of Crime Analysis System (CASPR) decision support system and dashboard based on publicly available data to identify important statistics and trends within and between two or more police detachments, and in the province of British Columbia. -Design and development CourBC Analytics decision support system and dashboard based on published court data, a research tool to facilitate repetitive queries and data mining on court data. -Modeling the Dynamic Behavior of Justice System -Trend analysis and modeling of “crime complexity and distribution in BC justice system” |
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2007-2010 |
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology, Researcher -Research and modeling the impact of BC’s community broadband initiative. |
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2006-2009
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Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada Interdisciplinary Research in Mathematics and Computing, Researcher -Modeling Integrated Criminal Justice System -Modeling the Demand for Healthcare -A probabilistic Cellular Automata model for the spread of HIV by sharing contaminated needles in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside -Assessment of Cataract Surgery Wait Lists for British Columbia |
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1986 |
Mardabad Satellite Remote Sensing Center, Tehran, Iran Graphic Processors Researcher -Studied diagnostic software and image processing |
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ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS |
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2018 |
Ghaseminejad, Amir H. (2018) A Non-Parametric Maximum for Number of Selected Features: Objective Optima for FDR and Significance Threshold with Application to Ordinal Survey Analysis. Journal of Big Data 5 (1): 19. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-018-0128-5.
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2017 |
Linning, Shannon J., Martin A. Andresen, Amir H. Ghaseminejad, and Paul J. Brantingham. (2017) “Crime Seasonality across Multiple Jurisdictions in British Columbia, Canada.” Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, January. https://doi.org/10.3138/cjccj.2015.E31. |
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2014 |
Ghaseminejad, Amir H. (2014). Society, Technology, Product, and Responsibility: A Dynamic Feedback Systems Perspective. International Journal of Technology Knowledge and Society, 9(4), 225-241. |
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2014 |
Andrew A Reid, Graham Farrell, Shihong Mu, Wolfgang Richter, Amir Ghaseminejad, Paul J Brantingham a. (2014). A matrix of measures of court caseload. The Canadian Bar Review, 92(1). |
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2012 |
Ghaseminejad, A. H., Brantingham, P., & Brantingham, P. (2012). Distribution of event complexity in the British Columbia court system an analysis based on the CourBC analytical system. Security Informatics, 1(1), 13. doi:10.1186/2190-8532-1-13 |
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2010 |
Ghaseminejad, A. H., & Brantingham, P. (2010). An executive decision support system for longitudinal statistical analysis of crime and law enforcement performance crime analysis system pacific region (CASPR). Proceedings from: IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) (pp. 1–6). doi:10.1109/ISI.2010.5484784 |
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2010 |
IRMACS Complex Systems Modelling Group. (2010). Modelling in Healthcare, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2010. |
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2009 |
Patent Application: Ghaseminejad, T. A. H. (2009). Decision making independent of irrelevant alternatives. Patent Application WO2009065211 A128-May-2009 |
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2008 |
A. Alimadad, P. Brantingham, P. Brantingham, V. Dabbaghian-Abdoly, R. Ferguson, E. Fowler, A. H. Ghaseminejad, C. Giles, J. Li, N. Pollard, A. R. Rutherford, and A. van der Waall. (2008). Using Varieties of Simulation Modelling for Criminal Justice System Analysis. In Artificial Crime Analysis Systems: Using Computer Simulations and Geographic Information Systems, John Eck and Lin Lui (eds.), Idea Group Inc., Hershey, PA, pp 372-412, 2008. |
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2007 |
Ghaseminejad, Amir H. (2007). An Informatics Theory of Effective Democracy: Democratic Wisdom Hypothesis and General Relativity of Democracy. International Journal of Technology Knowledge and Society, 2(7), 91–106. |
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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS |
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Kwantlen Polytechnic University Seminar Surrey, BC, Canada High Dimensional Survey Analysis
Many big data cases including research about social issues, public opinion research, marketing lead to the study of phenomena that are influenced by many variables. This complicates the process of choosing an optimum set of selected predictors associated with an interesting outcome. Number of rejected null hypotheses, in high-dimensional data analysis can be very big. Many times, the variable selection decision is made, subjectively, then test of hypothesis is performed to evaluate few hypotheses. In this presentation, I discussed a method for dimension reduction in big data sets in which the selected p-value threshold is insensitive to dependency within features, and between features and outcomes. The method neither requires predetermined thresholds for level of significance, nor uses presumed thresholds for false discovery rate. Using the presented method, the optimum p-value for powerful yet parsimonious model is chosen, then for every set of rejected hypotheses, the researcher can also report traditional measures of statistical accuracy such as the expected number of false positives, and false discovery rate. Big surveys, which usually have many ordinal measurements, are special because the treatment of data, as if it is interval, is problematic. I reported the results of the implementation of proposed methods in an example of non-parametric analysis of high-dimensional ordinal survey data. |
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2015 |
Western Society of Criminology Conference, Vancouver, Canada Western Society of Criminology Conference, Crime Basket Analysis Ghaseminejad, A. Crime basket analysis: Understanding the attributes of events with which the criminal justice system. 2016 Meeting of the Western Society of Criminology, Vancouver BC, Canada, 04 – 06 February 2016. This paper introduces Crime Basket Analysis and applies this methodology to British Columbia’s Police and Court Systems. The mission of police force is beyond simply dealing with criminals after they commit the crime, charging them and sending to courts. It also includes attending and responding to community calls for service even when no chargeable events have occurred, preventative control of environments in which crime is probable, and enforcing the law. These services mostly remain unrecorded and are not reflected in reported metrics of police performance. This paper presents an analytic methodology – crime basket analysis – that can be used to better understand the similarities and differences in the composition of events that are attended by police and are prosecuted in the court system. The application of crime basket method to analyze events attended to by police and forwarded to the court system in British Columbia, Canada, is reported. The next steps of the ongoing research are also explained. |
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2014 |
Western Canada Graduate Conference of Critical Studies Society, Technology, Product, Change, Responsibility: An Organic Feedback Perspective
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2013
2013 |
Canadian Communication Association Conference University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada Society, Technology, Product, Change, Responsibility: An Organic Feedback Perspective
Ninth International Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Society UBC Robson Square, Vancouver, Canada Society, Technology, Product; Change, Responsibility: An Organic Feedback Perspective
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2010 |
Society for Social Studies of Science, 2010 Annual Meeting Tokyo, Japan “Science and Technology, Agents Who Cannot be Held Responsible Risks of Loose Definitions and Personifications” |
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2010 |
The Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship Graduate Student Conference, Québec City, Canada “Collective Decision Making While Averting the Impact of Irrelevant Alternatives Sincere Voting Using Collaborative Methods” |
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2010 |
The IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics Vancouver, Canada
Ghaseminejad, A.H. and Brantingham, P.J. “An Executive Decision Support System For Longitudinal Statistical Analysis of Crime and Law Enforcement Performance. “ |
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2010 |
BC ICT Summit Vancouver, Canada “Recent research on rural connectivity” |
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2010 |
Public Choice Society Monterey, California, USA “Collective Decision Making with Explicit Averting from the Impact of Irrelevant Alternatives” |
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2010 |
On the Edge : Pushing Boundaries in Social Research Student Conference UBC sociology graduate student conference Toward a Science for Understanding the Complexities of Modern World-System: Reality, Uncertainty, the Truth and the Good |
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2009 |
BC ICT Summit Coast Plaza Hotel, Vancouver British Columbia, Canada, 2009 Foundation for the Future Research Project |
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2009 |
International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society Huntsville, Alabama, USA A Mythology of Media Effects: Our Path Toward Comprehensive Models |
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2009 |
Union for Democratic Communications (UDC) Conference Buffalo, New York, USA An Informatics Theory of Democratic Journalism. |
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2008
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Canadian Communication Association Conference University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada A Methodology for Studying the Impact of Providing Broadband Internet Technology to Remote and Rural Communities |
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2007
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International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society Cambridge University, United Kingdom “Democracy and the tyranny of Weak Majority: Do Modern Technologies |
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2006
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International Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis Conference, Chilliwack, B. C., Canada. A. Alimadad, P. Borwein, P. Brantingham, P. Brantingham, V. Dabbaghian-Abdoly, R. Ferguson, E. Fowler, A. H. Ghaseminejad, C. Giles, J. Li, N. Pollard, A. R. Rutherford, and A. van der Waall: Simulation of the Criminal Justice System for Policy Analysis: The Complementary Strengths of Discrete Event Models and System Dynamics Models. |
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2006 |
Crime Reduction Initiative – Division Management Update, RCMP E Division, British Columbia, Oct. 19, 2006.
A. Alimadad, P. Brantingham, P. Brantingham, V. Dabbaghian-Abdoly, R. Ferguson, E. Fowler, A. H. Ghaseminejad, C. Giles, J. Li, N. Pollard, A. R. Rutherford, and A. van der Waall: Using Simulation Modelling for Analyzing the Criminal Justice System in British Columbia. |
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2006 |
IBM Experts Meeting, IRMACS, Nov. 2006.
V. Dabbaghian-Abdoly, E. Fowler, A. H. Ghaseminejad, C. Giles, and A. van der Waall: Simulation of the Criminal Justice System for Policy Analysis. |
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2006
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Symposium on Technology and Citizenship McGill University, Montreal , Canada “An Informatics Theory of Effective Democracy”, the Effect of Information Dissemination by Modern Technologies on Democracy” Published in International Journal of Technology Knowledge and Society |
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1988-1990 |
Sharif University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering. Tehran, Iran. Presented Seminars on: Parallel Processing Automatic VLSI Layout Generation, Silicon Compilation VT-CSMA Industrial Protocol for Local Area Computer Network. |
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Workshops |
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2013 |
International Joint Summer School Communication and Global Power Shifts; Vancouver, Canada Hosted by: The School of Communication, Simon Fraser University The National Centre for Radio & Television Studies, Communication University of China The Communication and Media Research Institute, University of Westminster The School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong |
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Awards |
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2013 |
Graduate Fellowship (PhD) Award |
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2010 |
Graduate Fellowship (PhD) Award |
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RESEARCH INTERESTS |
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Variables Influencing Citizen Engagement in Technologically Mediated Democratic Systems, Impact of Information and Communication Technologies on Collective Decision Making and Control, Process Modeling of Complex Social Systems, Philosophy of Science and Technology, Technology and Society Interrelationships, Systems Analysis, Big Data and Information Management. |
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TEACHING |
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2008-2015 |
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada School of communication, Sessional Instructor -News Discourse and Political Communication -Computer Supported Cooperative Work: Critical Perspectives -News Media, the Public and Democracy -Empirical Research Methods in Communication
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2000-Present |
Capilano University, North Vancouver, Canada Information Management Unit, Strategic Management Unit School of Business, Faculty -Probability and Statistics -Operations management -Business Information Systems -Management Decision Making -Empirical Research Methods in Communications -Management -Management of Information Systems -Business Technology Disaster Recovery and Planning -Advanced Web Design (E-Business Implementation) -Business Computing (Windows and Office Applications) -SQL Server 2000 System Administration -Structured Programming Logic & Design -Designing Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure -Windows 2000 Active Directory Infrastructure -Windows 2000 Network Infrastructure -Windows 2000 Server -Windows 2000 Professional -Upgrading Windows NT Support Skills to Windows 2000 -Visual Basic object-oriented programming -TCP/IP -Windows NT in Enterprise -Network Essentials -Computer Hardware & Operating Systems. |
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2002-2008 |
Langara College, Vancouver, Canada. Business Administration Department and Computing Science and Information Systems Department, Faculty -Marketing -Business Computer Applications -Business Applications Systems Analysis (Accounting Information Systems) -Advanced Application Development (Oracle 9i) -Java Programming -Database Management Systems -Computer Networks -Advanced Visual Basic Programming .NET -C++ Programming -Operating Systems I (Unix / Linux) -Operating Systems II (Linux Networking and Security) -Java Programming -Introduction to Programming |
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2003-2004 |
Douglas College, Vancouver, Canada. Computer Information Systems Department, Faculty -C++ Programming -Introduction to Computers -Hardware Maintenance Concepts
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2001-2004 |
British Columbia Institute of Technology, Vancouver, Canada. School of Electrical and Electronic Technology, Faculty -Understanding TCP/IP -Unix Fundamentals (Linux+) -Local Area Network I and II (Network +) |
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1983 – 1990 |
Sharif University of Technology Electrical Engineering Department, Instructor -Computer Structure and Machine Language -Logic Circuits and Switching Theory -Electronics II -Microprocessor and Logic Circuits Labs |
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SKILLS |
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Public Opinion Research (5 years) Modeling Complex Social Systems (10 years) High Dimensional Data Analysis (4 years) Data Visualization (10+ years) R Programming (4 years) C# (7 years) SQL (10+ years) DB2 (10+ years) Oracle Database (3 years) Microsoft SQL Server (4+ years) Visual Basic and VBA (10+ years) Java Script (10+ years) Statistical Analysis (10+ years)
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CERTIFICATES |
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1997
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Microsoft Vancouver, New York, Tehran, Dubai Microsoft Certified Database Administrator, SQL 2000 Microsoft Certified System Engineer, Windows 2000 Microsoft Certified System Engineer, Windows NT 4.0 Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator, Windows 2000 Early Achiever Windows 2000 Certification Award Microsoft Certified Professional + Internet Microsoft Certified Professional, Windows 95, 98 |
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2001
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CompTIA Vancouver, Canada i-Net+ Certified Professional Network+ Certified Professional A+ Certified Professional |
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2000 |
Capilano University, North Vancouver, Canada Responsive Teaching Techniques Certificate |
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1993 |
Westinghouse Canada (Northrop Grumman) Burlington , Ontario, Canada Affinity Installation and support Certificate Certified for Affinity Gateway Card Installation and Support. |
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REPORTS |
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2016 |
Fact Sheets on trends in court system and criminal events in British Columbia The Institute for Canadian Urban Research Studies (ICURS) |
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2009 |
Ghaseminejad, Amir H. (2009), A Model for Inter-organizational Communications for Information Sharing, prepared for the office of chief information officer (Mitacs funded). |
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2007 |
A. Alimadad, A. H. Ghaseminejad, W. Hare, J. Li, S. Mitrovic-Minic, A. R. Rutherford, K. Vásárhelyi, and L. Vertesi. (2007). Assessment of Cataract Surgery Wait Lists for British Columbia. Report for the British Columbia Ministry of Health. |
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2007 |
V. Dabbaghian-Abdoly, E. Fowler, A. H. Ghaseminejad, C. Giles, and Alexa van der Waall. (2007). Modelling and Simulation of the Criminal Justice System. Report for the RCMP. |
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2006
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With Complex systems Modeling Group, Simon Fraser University Interdisciplinary Research In mathematics and Computing (IRMACS) “Modeling the Demand for Healthcare“. Monograph prepared for the British Columbia Ministry of Health, 193 pages, September 2006.
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PERSONAL INTERESTS |
Tennis, Ping Pong, Volleyball, Light and Classical Music
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