people working with me
Dexter Hobson
Master student (1st year) in Electrical Engineering, Lakehead University
Dexter joined us in March 2009 first as Research Assistant and, after a few months of discovery, as a Master student since September 2009. Dexter is working in the development of new endocavitary devices for the treatment of localized diseases.
I never imagined this opportunity; I never saw my Master's as something I wanted to pursue. This is really challenging work, really fun. You never know what your day is going to be like, there's something new every dayBenjamin Zaporzan
Undergraduate student (3rd year) in Electrical Engineering, Lakehead University
Benjamin joined us in summer 2009 for a summer job as Research Assistant. He decided to keep an actitivty with us as a part time research assistant during his school year 2009-2010. He is working in the implementation of many algorithms to be executed with clusters and graphical cards. He will come back for a full time summer position in summer 2010 to continue his work on implementation of algorithms and for the control of a system for therapy based on focused ultrasound.
As an Electrical Engineering student I thought I could only find a job locally in power engineering. At the Research Institute I have had the chance to work with high-performance computing, which I'm really enjoying. If I have the opportunity to do my Masters here, that would be great. For example, I was able to optimize the code for simulations involving the bio-heat transfer equation, which just means the simulations come to the same end result but in a shorter amount of time. Working here has exceeded my expectations. Dr. Pichardo provides us with tons of guidance, and we get to see progress in something that we worked on.Jon Kivinen
Undergraduate student (3rd year) in Software Engineering, Lakehead University
Jon joined us in september as a part time research assistant during his school year 2009-2010. In May 2010, he will join us for a full time co-op position that will be partly funded by the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund for a full year. He is also working in the implementation of algorithms to be executed using GPGPU and for the control of a system for therapy based on focused ultrasound.
Toward the end of high school my decision of what to do next was limited by the fact that most of my high school credits were music-oriented. However, the idea of pursuing a music degree seemed to me to be less practical than I would have liked. Fortunately, I had always been keen in math and science so I decided to spend the last year of high school (plus an extra semester) taking a bunch of courses in math and science. In doing so I developed a love for programming, not only as a means to solve fun puzzles but when the puzzles are solved the end result is something really neat. In the fall after graduating I was accepted into the Software Engineering program at Lakehead University. After two years of study my path has brought me to TBRRI where I have been given the opportunity to play with computers, learn about many interesting things that I would have never been exposed to otherwise. Lastly, the product of my labour ends up being useful to somebody other myself.