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Meet the people of the ADSL

Current members



PhD students

Tahmina Akhter

Tahmina Akhter

Respiration and emotion

Gorkem Vardar

Gorkem Vardar

Deep physiology of emotion



MSc students

Gavin Bosman

Gavin Bosman

PyFAME: A Python package for facial masking, colorization, and analysis

Douglas Conley

Douglas Conley

EMGFlow: A Python package for pre-processing and feature extraction of electromyographic signals

Dylan Rapanan

Dylan Rapanan

Emotional responses to virtual avatars



Fourth year students

David Houle-tymeczko

David Houle-tymeczko

Animating virtual models from speech

Aiju Kinoshita

Aiju Kinoshita

Mapping speech to expressive avatars

Heisn Nithysingha

Heisn Nithysingha

Classifying deep physiological emotions

Dev Thaker

Dev Thaker

Emotional events in computer programming


Undergraduate research students

Ambrose Yip

Ambrose Yip

Facial motion analysis

Shane Francis

Shane Francis

Facial motion analysis

Suryansh	Saroch

Suryansh Saroch

Facial motion analysis

Thaddeus Baturensky

Thaddeus Baturensky

Parkinsons facial expressions

Zain Syed

Zain Syed

Facial motion analysis

Vincent Wong

Vincent Wong

Facial motion analysis



Former members

Supervised positions in parentheses

Nick Greene (MSc, Hons)

Nick Greene (MSc, Hons)

Biomarkers of emotion

Adeliz Keith (MSc)

Adeliz Keith (MSc)

Gaze-aware documents

Abinaya Jayanthi (Hons)

Abinaya Jayanthi (Hons)

MetaBot: a meta-level chatbot agent

Tim Kern (Hons)

Tim Kern (Hons)

Classifying emotions in speech across languages

Joshua Trower (Hons)

Joshua Trower (Hons)

Classification of depression from speech: A transfer learning approach

Tristan Ro (Hons)

Tristan Ro (Hons)

Classifying American football coverage

Riley Swanson (UG)

Riley Swanson (UG)

Facial expressions meet big data

Matt Divertie (UG)

Matt Divertie (UG)

Developing a low-cost computer-based intervention for patients with Parkinson’s disease

Bohdan Synytskyi (UG)

Bohdan Synytskyi (UG)

PyOcclusion: A python package for adding occlusionary noise to videos

Syed Naqvi (UG)

Syed Naqvi (UG)

Audiomorph: A python package for adding auditory noise

Zhenghao Liao (UG)

Zhenghao Liao (UG)

Facial Expression and Landmark Tracking (FELT) dataset