Our Team

The Principal Investigator

Alex Mariakakis

Alex Mariakakis

Alex Mariakakis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. He is also an Affiliate Scientist at KITE Research Institute and an Education Faculty Affiliate within T-CAIREM, which has enabled his passion for digital health research to influence the clinical landscape in the Greater Toronto Area.

His work has garnered multiple Best Paper Awards at top computer science venues like ACM CHI and ACM COMPASS, as well as significant attention from media outlets ranging from the BBC to Cosmo Magazine. The technologies he has developed have led to big tech company acquisitions and startups alike, and he is currently a Faculty Fellow at the Toronto-based venture studio AXL to help accelerate Canadian innovation in human-centric AI.

Graduate Students

Salaar Liaqat
Salaar Liaqat
PhD (co-advised by Eyal de Lara)
Remote patient monitoring for respiratory diseases
Looking for
Industry Position
Sejal Bhalla
Sejal Bhalla
PhD (co-advised by Eyal de Lara)
Speech analysis and multimodal health sensing
Looking for
Industry Position
Ken Christofferson
Ken Christofferson
PhD (co-advised by Joseph Cafazzo)
Applied machine learning with earbuds
Looking for
Industry Position
Dhruv Verma
Dhruv Verma
PhD
Computational imaging with mobile devices
Ian Ruffolo
Ian Ruffolo
PhD (co-advised by Michael Brudno)
Bedside physiological monitoring
Looking for
Industry Position
Andrii Lenyshyn
Andrii Lenyshyn
PhD
Health monitoring with virtual reality
Zahra Hassanzadeh
Zahra Hassanzadeh
PhD (co-advised by Joseph Jay Williams)
Adaptive interventions with conversational agents
Vaibhav Ganatra
Vaibhav Ganatra
PhD
Novel machine learning for healthcare
Katherine Jelich
Katherine Jelich
MSc
Conversational health AI
Thomas Kleinknecht
Thomas Kleinknecht
MSc
Multimodal blood pressure estimation
Kelsey Stemmler
Kelsey Stemmler
MSc
Health informatics with wearables
Looking for
PhD Position
Samanvay Vajpayee
Samanvay Vajpayee
MScAC
Medical LLM applications

Undergraduate Students

Irmak Aytekin
Irmak Aytekin
BS
Joe Fang
Joe Fang
BS
Looking for
Grad School Position
Larry Kieu
Larry Kieu
BS
Looking for
Grad School Position
Minh Le
Minh Le
BS
Looking for
Grad School Position
Zulaa Lkhagvajav
Zulaa Lkhagvajav
BS
Tanaya Sharma
Tanaya Sharma
BS
Harpuneet Singh
Harpuneet Singh
BS
Maryam Taj
Maryam Taj
BS
Looking for
Grad School Position
Tianmen (Tim) Wang
Tianmen (Tim) Wang
BS
Richard Yin
Richard Yin
BS
Yibin Wang
Yibin Wang
BS