Lab Members

Dr. Emad is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University. He is also affiliated with the McGill initiative in Computational Medicine (MiCM), the Quantitative Life Sciences (QLS) program and Meakins-Christie Laboratories at McGill University as well as with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois (UIUC). In addition, he is an associate member of the Quebec AI Institute, MILA. Before joining McGill, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the NIH KnowEnG Center of Excellence in Big Data Computing associated with the Department of Computer Science and the Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) at UIUC. He received his PhD from UIUC in 2015, his MSc from the University of Alberta (UofA) in 2009 and his BSc from Sharif University of Technology (SUT) in 2007, all in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Dr. Emad is the recipient of various awards including the NSERC Postdoctoral fellowship (2015), the UIUC CompGen Graduate Fellowship (2014), the UIUC Sundaram Seshu Summer Fellowship (2012), the NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship (2010), the NSERC M.Sc. Postgraduate Scholarship (2008), the iCORE Graduate Student Scholarship in ICT (2008), the UofA Graduate Student Scholarship (2008), the UofA Walter H. Johns Graduate Fellowship (2008), the SUT Exceptional Qualification Award (2003) and the gold medal in Iran’s national Physics Olympiad (2003).