# Research (Archived Dec 2025)

Kory W. Mathewson · 2025-12-25 · https://korymathewson.com/research-archive-dec-2026/ · Archived content from the Research section - publications, education, and professional service.

Kory Mathewson is a Senior Research Scientist with [DeepMind](https://deepmind.com/) and an [Associate Industry Member](https://mila.quebec/en/person/kory-mathewson/) at [Mila - the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute](https://mila.quebec/en/mila/) in Montreal, Canada. Kory holds a Ph.D. in Computing Science from the University of Alberta with the [Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute](https://www.amii.ca/). His research focuses on understanding intelligent interaction between humans and machines, most recently in the domains of interactive, conversational systems and creative applications of artificial intelligence.

Featured Projects: 
1. Dramatron -- [Co-Writing Screenplays and Theatre Scripts with Language Models: An Evaluation by Industry Professionals](https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.14958).
1. Communicative capital -- [A key resource for human–machine shared agency and collaborative capacity](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00521-022-07948-1).

## Education

### 2014 – 2019 - Doctor of Philosophy in Science in Computing Science

Thesis: [Humour-in-the-loop: Improvised Theatre with Humans and Machines](http://korymathewson.com/phd)
Department of Computing Science, Faculty of Science, University of Alberta  
Supervised by [Dr. Patrick Pilarski](https://sites.ualberta.ca/~pilarski/)  

### 2011 – 2014 - Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering

Thesis: [Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Blood Flow and Blood Oxygenation during Exercise](http://korymathewson.com/msc-bme/)  
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta  
Co-supervised by [Dr. Richard B. Thompson](https://www.ualberta.ca/biomedical-engineering/research/peter-s-allen-mr-research-centre/research-team/dr-richard-thompson.html) and [Dr. Mark Haykowsky](https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/mhaykows)  

### 2005 – 2010 - Bachelor of Science in Electrical (Biomedical) Engineering

Research topic: [Combined Photoacoustic and Ultrasound Biomicroscopy](http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-17-24-22041)  
Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Alberta  
Supervised by [Dr. Roger Zemp](https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/rzemp)  

## Work Experience

- June 2022-Present - **Senior Research Scientist** - [DeepMind](https://deepmind.com/)  
- October 2019-June 2022 - **Research Scientist** - [DeepMind](https://deepmind.com/)  
- September 2017-Present - **Lab Scientist** - [Creative Destruction Lab](https://www.creativedestructionlab.com/people/kory-mathewson/)  
- Spring-Winter 2018 - **Intern** - [Google Brain (Montreal)](https://ai.google/research/teams/brain)  
- Summer 2017 - **Intern** - [Apple (Special Projects Group)](https://www.apple.com/ca/)  
- Summer 2017 - **Intern** - [Google Brain (Magenta)](https://research.google.com/teams/brain/)  
- Summer 2016 - **Intern** - [Twitter (Cortex)](https://engineering.twitter.com/cortex)  
- 2010-2011 - **Engineer-in-Training** - [Canadian Biosample Repository](http://biosample.ca/)  
- 2009-2010 - **President** - [Students' Union University of Alberta](https://www.su.ualberta.ca/)  

## Publications

1. **Mathewson KW**, Parker ASR, Sherstan C, Edwards AL, Sutton RS, Pilarski PM. (2022) [Communicative capital: a key resource for human–machine shared agency and collaborative capacity](#).
1. Mirowski P, **Mathewson KW**, Pittman J, Evans R. (2022) [Co-Writing Screenplays and Theatre Scripts with Language Models: An Evaluation by Industry Professionals](https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.14958).
1. Kalinowska A, Davoodi E, Strub F, **Mathewson KW**, Kajic I, Bowling M, Murphey T, Pilarski P. (2022) [Over-communicate no more: Situated RL agents learn concise communication protocols](https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.01480).
1. Wispinski NJ, Butcher A, **Mathewson KW**, Chapman CS, Botvinick MM, Pilarski PM. (2022) [Adaptive patch foraging in deep reinforcement learning agents](https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.08085).
1. Many Authors. (2022) [Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.04615).
1. Baird A, Tzirakis P, Gidel G, Jiralerspong M, Muller EB, **Mathewson KW**, Schuller B, Cambria E, Keltner D, Cowen A. (2022) [The ICML 2022 Expressive Vocalizations Workshop and Competition: Recognizing, Generating, and Personalizing Vocal Bursts](https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01780).
1. **Mathewson KW**, Pilarski PM. (2022) [A Brief Guide to Designing and Evaluating Human-Centered Interactive Machine Learning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.09622).
1. Kalinowska A, Davoodi E, Strub F, **Mathewson KW**, Murphey T, Pilarski P. (2022) [Situated Communication: A Solution to Over-communication between Artificial Agents](https://openreview.net/forum?id=HLqzzQWA7Z9).
1. Ossenkopf M, Luck KS, **Mathewson KW**. (2022) [Which Language Evolves Between Heterogeneous Agents?-Communicating Movement Instructions With Widely Different Time Scopes](https://openreview.net/forum?id=BnfgM7-0mW5).
1. Kalinowska A, Davoodi E, **Mathewson KW**, Murphey T, Pilarski PM. (2022) [Towards Situated Communication in Multi-Step Interactions: Time is a Key Pressure in Communication Emergence](https://escholarship.org/uc/item/61k7486v).
1. **Cultural General Intelligence Team**. (2022) [Learning Robust Real-Time Cultural Transmission without Human Data](https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00715).
2. Chaabouni R, Strub F, Altché F, Tarassov E, Tallec C, Davoodi E, **Mathewson KW**, Tieleman O, Lazaridou A, Piot B. (2022) [Emergent Communication at Scale](https://openreview.net/forum?id=AUGBfDIV9rL).
3. Guo S, Ren Y, **Mathewson KW**, Kirby S, Albrecht SV, Smith K. (2021) [Expressivity of Emergent Language is a Trade-off between Contextual Complexity and Unpredictability](https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.03982).
4. Afsar MM, Park E, Paquette E, Gidel G, **Mathewson KW**, Muller E. (2021) [Generating Diverse Realistic Laughter for Interactive Art](https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.03146).
5. Ashley DR, Herrmann V, Friggstad Z, **Mathewson KW**, Schmidhuber J. (2021) [Automatic Embedding of Stories Into Collections of Independent Media](https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.02216?context=cs.SD).
6. Comer J, Work S, **Mathewson KW**, Cuthbertson L, Machine K. (2021) [#ContextMatters: Advantages and Limitations of Using Machine Learning to Support Women in Politics](https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.00116).
7. Branch B, Mirowski P, **Mathewson KW** (2021) [Collaborative Storytelling with Human Actors and AI Narrators](https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.14728).
8. Branch B, Efstratiou C, Mirowski P, **Mathewson KW**, Allain P (2021) [Tele-Immersive Improv: Effects of Immersive Visualisations on Rehearsing and Performing Theatre Online](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3411764.3445310).
9.  Santoro A, Lampinen A, **Mathewson KW**, Lillicrap T, Raposo D (2021) [Symbolic behaviour in artificial intelligence](https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.03406).
10. Swanson B, **Mathewson KW**, Pietrzak B, Chen S, Dinalescu M. [Story Centaur: Large Language Model Few Shot Learning as a Creative Writing Tool](https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-demos.29/).
11. Many Authors at DeepMind.  [Imitating Interactive Intelligence](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.05672.pdf).
12. Camarena D, Gagliano P, Bakogeorge A, Counter N, Patel A, Blustein C, Ray E, Oppenheim D, Mingail L, **Mathewson KW**, Castro PS (2020) [Agence: a dynamic film exploring multi-agent systems and human agency](https://slideslive.com/38942395/agence-an-interactive-film-exploring-multiagent-systems-and-human-agency).
13. Chen S, Pietrzak B, **Mathewson KW**, Kipnis A, Hoffman-John E(2020) [Text to Dialog: Using Semantic Similarity to Extend Narrative Immersion in Virtual Worlds](https://slideslive.com/38940997/text-to-dialog-using-semantic-similarity-to-extend-narrative-immersion-in-virtual-worlds).
14. Chen S, Kipnis A, **Mathewson KW**, Ysebert S, Pietrzak B, Cary D, Hoffman-John E (2020) [Semantic Chat: Enabling Greater Believability through Voice Avatars in Multiplayer and Story-Driven Games](#).
15. Prakash N, **Mathewson KW** (2020) [Conceptualization and Framework of Hybrid Intelligence Systems](https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.06161).
16. Guo S, Ren Y, Słowik A, **Mathewson KW** (2020) [Inductive Bias and Language Expressivity in Emergent Communication](https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.02875).
17. Mirowski P, **Mathewson KW**, Branch B, Winters T, Verhoeven B, Elfving J (2020) [Rosetta Code: Improv in Any Language](http://computationalcreativity.net/iccc20/papers/017-iccc20.pdf).
18. Lösel G, Mirowski P, **Mathewson KW**, (2020) [Do Digital Agents Do Dada?](#).
19. **Mathewson KW**, Castro PS, Cherry C, Foster G, Bellemare MG (2020) [Shaping the Narrative Arc: An Information-Theoretic Approach to Collaborative Dialogue](#).
20. Mirowski P, **Mathewson KW** (2020) [Art2: Artificial Intelligence in Artistic Performance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPq-ZrqTlP4).
21. Cuthbertson L, Kearney A, Dawson R, Zawaduk A, Cuthbertson E, Gordon-Tighe A, **Mathewson KW** (2019) [Women, politics and Twitter: Using machine learning to change the discourse](https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.11025).
22. Winters T, Farrugia S, **Mathewson KW** (2019) [TEDRIC: a Talk Exercise Designer for Realising Improvisational Comedy](https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09308).
23. Mirowski P and **Mathewson KW** (2019) [Human Improvised Theatre Augmented with Artificial Intelligence](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3325480.3326547).
24. **Mathewson KW** (2019) [A Human-Centered Approach to Interactive Machine Learning](https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.06289).
25. Dziri N, Kamalloo E, **Mathewson KW,** Zaiane O (2019) [Evaluating Coherence in Dialogue Systems using Entailment](https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.03371).
26. Dziri N, Kamalloo E, **Mathewson KW**, Zaiane O (2018) [Augmenting Neural Response Generation with Context-Aware Topical Attention](https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.01063).
27. Winters T and **Mathewson KW** (2019) [Automatically Generating Engaging Presentation Slide Decks](https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09308).
28. Eger M and **Mathewson KW** (2018) [dAIrector: Automatic Story Beat Generation through Knowledge Synthesis](https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03423).
29. **Mathewson KW** and Mirowski P (2018) [Improbotics: Exploring the Imitation Game using Machine Intelligence in Improvised Theatre](https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01807).
30. Travnik J, **Mathewson** KW, Sutton RS, and Pilarski PM (2018) [Reactive Reinforcement Learning in Asynchronous Environments](https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2018.00079/full).
31. **Mathewson KW** and Mirowski P (2017) [Improvised Theatre as a Turing Test](https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.08819).
32. Pilarski PM, Sutton R, **Mathewson KW**, Sherstan C, Parker ASR, Edwards AL (2017) [Communicative Capital for Prosthetic Agents](https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.03676).
33. **Mathewson KW** and Mirowski P (2017) [Improvised Theatre Alongside Artificial Intelligences](https://aaai.org/ocs/index.php/AIIDE/AIIDE17/paper/view/15825/15167).
34. **Mathewson KW** and Mirwoski P (2017) [Artificial Improvisation: Improvisational Theatre with Deep Neural Networks and Robots](#).
35. **Mathewson KW** and Pilarski PM (2017) [Concurrent Human Control and Feedback Shaping for Robot Training with Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning](#).
36. **Mathewson KW** and Pilarski PM (2017) [Reinforcement Learning based Embodied Agents Modelling Human Users Through Interaction and Multi-Sensory Perception](https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.02369).
37. Vega R, Sajed T, **Mathewson KW**, Khare K, Pilarski PM, Greiner R, Sanchez-Ante G, Antelis JM (2017) [Assessment of feature selection and classification methods for recognizing motor imagery tasks from electroencephalographic signals](http://www.sciedupress.com/journal/index.php/air/article/view/9839).
38. **Mathewson KW,** Pilarski PM (2016) [Simultaneous Control and Human Feedback in the Training of a Robotic Agent with Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning](#).
39. Thompson RB, Pagano JJ, **Mathewson KW,** Paterson I, Dyck JR, Kitzman DW, Haykowsky MJ (2016) [Differential Responses of Post-Exercise Recovery of Leg Blood Flow and Oxygen Uptake Kinetics in HFpEF versus HFrEF](#).
40. Pilarski PM, Sutton R, **Mathewson KW** (2015) [Prosthetic Devices as Goal-Seeking Agents](https://sites.ualberta.ca/~pilarski/docs/papers/Pilarski_2015_PNSMI.pdf).
41. **Mathewson KW**, Haykowsky MJ, Thompson RB (2015) [Feasibility and reproducibility of measurement of whole muscle blood flow, oxygen extraction, and VO2 with dynamic exercise using MRI](#).
42. Harrison T, Ranasinghesagara JC, Lu H, **Mathewson KW**, Walsh A, Zemp RJ (2009). [Combined photoacoustic and ultrasound biomicroscopy](#).
43. Ranasinghesagara JC, Jian Y, Chen X, **Mathewson KW**, Zemp RJ (2009) [Photoacoustic technique for assessing optical scattering properties of turbid media](#).
44. Zemp RJ, Ranasinghesagara JC, Jian Y, Chen X, **Mathewson KW** (2009) [A photoacoustic method for optical scattering measurements in turbid media](#).
45. Zemp RJ, Lu H, **Mathewson KW,** Ranasinghesagara J, Jiang Y, Walsh A, Chen X (2009) [Development of a fast-scanning combined ultrasound-photoacoustic biomicroscope](#).
46. Zemp RJ, Xuhui C, Huihong L, Yan J, **Mathewson KW** (2008) [A new photoacoustic method for measuring optical transport green's functions in turbid media](#).

## Professional Service

1. **Co-organizer** for 2022 [Royal Anthropological Institute Workshop on: Visions of the future of human-machine creative symbiosis](https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/rai2022/p/11180#).
1. **Co-organizer** for 2022 [ICML Expressive Vocalizations Workshop & Competition](https://www.competitions.hume.ai/exvo2022). 
1. **Reviewer** for 2022 [Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM)](https://rldm.org/), **8 articles**.
1. **Reviewer** for 2022 [ICLR 2022 Workshop on Gamification and Multiagent Solutions](https://www.gamificationmas.com/call-for-papers), **3 articles**.
1. **Reviewer** for 2021 [Thirty-fifth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems](https://neurips.cc/), **3 articles**.
2. **Reviewer** for 2021 [International Conference on Learning Representations](https://iclr.cc/), **3 articles**.
3. **Reviewer** for 2021 [ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems,](https://chi2021.acm.org/) **2 articles**.
4. **Co-organizer** for 2020 [Wordplay: When Language Meets Games,](https://wordplay-workshop.github.io/modern/) NeurIPS Workshop.
5. **Program Committee Reviewer** [Cooperative AI Workshop,](https://www.cooperativeai.com/) NeurIPS 2020, **3 articles**.
6. **Reviewer** for 2020 [Thirty-fourth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems](https://neurips.cc/), Vancouver, Canada.
7. **Reviewer** for 2020 [International Conference on Computational Creativity](http://computationalcreativity.net/iccc20/), Coimbra, Portugal, **1 article**.
8. **Reviewer** for 2020 [International Conference on Machine Learning](https://icml.cc/), Vienna, Austria, **6 articles**.
9. **Reviewer** for 2019 [Thirty-third Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems](https://neurips.cc/), Vancouver, Canada, **7 articles**.
10. **Reviewer** for 2019 [15th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE'19)](https://web.cs.wpi.edu/~gmsmith/aiide2019/), Atlanta, USA, **2 articles**.
11. **Reviewer** for 2019 [Experimental AI in Games](http://www.exag.org/) workshop at [15th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE'19)](https://web.cs.wpi.edu/~gmsmith/aiide2019/), Atlanta, USA, **2 articles**.
12. **Chair**; 2019 Playable Experience Track, [15th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE'19)](https://web.cs.wpi.edu/~gmsmith/aiide2019/), Atlanta, USA.
13. **Reviewer** for 2019 [Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM)](http://rldm.org/), **7 extended abstracts**.
14. **Reviewer** for 2018 [ACM/IEEE International Conference on](http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2018/) Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).
15. **Reviewer** for 2017 [Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM). Ann Arbor, USA,](http://rldm.org/) **4 extended abstracts**.
16. **Reviewer** for 2017 [Adaptive Learning Agents Workshop](http://ala2017.it.nuigalway.ie/) at [International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems](http://www.aamas2017.org/), **2 articles.**
17. **Reviewer** for 2016 [Thirtieth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems](https://neurips.cc/), Barcelona, Spain, **4 articles.**
18. **Co-Chair**, 2016 [Future of Interactive Learning Machines](http://filmnips.com) Workshop at [Thirtieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems](https://neurips.cc/).
19. **Reviewer** for 2016 [Future of Interactive Learning Machines](http://filmnips.com) Workshop at [Thirtieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems](https://neurips.cc/), **5 articles.**
20. **Reviewer** for 2016 IEEE [Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering](http://tnsre.embs.org/), **1 article.**

## Extended Abstracts, Posters, and Presentations

1. **Four Directions to Sail Your Ship: Internships, Scholarships, Entrepreneurship, and Mentorship**.
[Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute](#). Mar 4, 2022.
1. **The Future of 'Live' Theatre'**. [Campus Party](https://digital.campus-party.org/canada/speaker/kory-mathewson/?lang=en). Nov 4, 2021. [Slides](https://korymathewson.com/the-future-of-live-theatre/).
2. **The Future of 'Live' Theatre'**. [MTL Connect](https://mtlconnecte.ca/). Oct 17, 2021.
3. **The Best Career Advice I Ever Got: "Say Yes"**. University of Alberta Faculty of Graduate Studies & Research Invest in Your Future Career Symposium. November 16, 2018.
4. **Improbotics: Exploring the Imitation Game using Machine Intelligence in Improvised Theatre.** AIIDE18. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. November 17, 2018.
5. **[dAIrector: Automatic Story Beat Generation through Knowledge Synthesis.](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/107LWnptbr2lX0Wuud-MLpBt1USmZLWhDovqghrsQ1iw/edit?usp=sharing)** INT/WICED18 at AIIDE18. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. November 13, 2018.
6. **Improvised Comedy as a Turing Test.** [NeurIPS](https://nips2017creativity.github.io/) [2017](https://nips2017creativity.github.io/) [Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design](https://nips2017creativity.github.io/). Long Beach, California, USA. December 9, 2017.
7. **[Improvised Theatre Alongside Artificial Intelligences](https://aaai.org/ocs/index.php/AIIDE/AIIDE17/paper/view/15825/15167)**. 13th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE'17). Snowbird, Utah, USA. October 8 2017
8. **Applying Interactive Machine Learning to Next-generation Prosthetics**. Prairie Perception Action and Cognition Team (P-PACT), Canmore, Alberta, Canada. November 5, 2016.
9.  Pilarski PM, Sutton RS, Edwards AL, Sherstan C, **Mathewson KW**, Parker ASR, Hebert JS. **Towards strong prosthetic machine intelligence.** Cybathlon Symposium 2016, Zurich, Switzerland, October 6, 2016. (Poster and abstract.)
10. **[Advances in Machine Learning for Control of Bionic Limbs](#)**. Forum for Artificial Intelligence. University of Texas at Austin. Austin, Texas, USA. Sep 3, 2016.
11. **Mathewson, KW,** Pilarski, P.M. (2016) **[Simultaneous Control and Human Feedback in the Training of a Robotic Agent with Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning](#)**. 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Interactive Machine Learning Workshop. July 2016. New York, USA.
12. **[Robots learning from human control and feedback](#)**. 10th Barbados Workshop on Reinforcement Learning. McGill's Bellairs Institute. Holetown, Barbados.  Apr 27, 2016.
13. **[Developing Machine Intelligence to Improve Bionic Limb Control](#)**. Smart Environments Research Center _Distinguished Speaker Series_. Washington State University, Feb 23 2016.
14. Invited Keynote: **Improv(e) your creativity - Creative Idea Generation.** The 23rd Annual International Conference on Academic Integrity: Integrity in the Real World., Edmonton, Canada, 2015.
15. **[Prosthetic Limbs as Goal Seeking Agents](#).** Bionic Limbs for Improved Natural Control Research Day, Edmonton, Canada, 2015.
16. **[Don't Shoot the Robot - Reaching for New Levels of Human/Machine Learning](#).** Tea Time Talks - University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 2015.
18. **[Stereovision and augmented reality for closed-loop control of grasping in hand prosthesis](#).** Bionic Limbs for Improved Natural Control Journal Club, Edmonton, Canada, 2015.
19. **[Interactive Reinforcement Learning - Human Generated Reward](#).** Biomedical Engineering Summer Research Day, Edmonton, Canada, 2015.
20. **Feasibility and Reproducibility of Measurement of Skeletal Muscle Blood Flow, Oxygen Extraction and VO2 with Dynamic Exercise Using MRI.** 2014 International Society for Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Medicine Joint Annual Meeting. May 15, 2014. Milan, Lombardy, Italy.
21. **Feasibility and Reproducibility of Measurement of Skeletal Muscle Blood Flow, Oxygen Extraction and VO2 with Dynamic Exercise Using MRI.** 2014 Faculty of Engineering Graduate Research Symposium. June 19, 2014. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
22. **Investigating Changes in Femoral Hemodynamics Immediately Post Exercise using MRI**. 2013. Re:Engineering Leadership Conference. October 8, 2013. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
23. **Simultaneously Measuring Blood Flow and Oxygen Consumption Immediately Pre- and Post-Exercise with MRI.** 2013 Alberta Imaging Symposium. June 26, 2013. Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
24. **Investigating the Impact of Heart Failure on Cerebral Blood Flow During Exercise using MRI.** 2012 Faculty of Engineering Graduate Research Symposium. June 21, 2012. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
25. **Imaging microvasculature with a fast-scanning combined ultrasound-photoacoustic biomicroscope and real-time display.** 9th Annual Alberta Biomedical Engineering Conference. October 25, 2008. Banff, Alberta, Canada.
26. **A Wireless Sensor Network to Monitor Brace Biomechanics in Scoliosis Treatment.** 8th Annual Alberta Biomedical Engineering Conference. October 20, 2007. Banff, Alberta, Canada.

## Awards and Honours

1. **Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS-D)** Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) ($105000) Sep 2016 – Sep 2019
2. **Graduate Student Scholarship** - Alberta Innovates Technology Futures ($63000) Sep 2016 – Sep 2019
3. **Andrew Stewart Memorial Graduate Prize** ($5000) May 2017
4. **UofA Science Graduate Scholarship** ($2000) Nov 2016
5. **President's Doctoral Prize of Distinction**, UAlberta ($10000) Sep 2016
6. **Graduate Research Award Rice Graduate Scholarship in Communications** ($22000) Dec 2015
7. **Department of Computing Science Early Achievement Award** Sep 2015
8. **Graduate Student Scholarship** - Alberta Innovates Technology Futures ($26500) Sep 2015
9. **Walter H. Johns Graduate Fellowship** - UAlberta ($5700) Sep 2015
10. **Alexander Graham Bell (CGS-M)** - NSERC ($17500) Sep 2015
11. **Oral Presentation Winner**, 2014 Engineering Graduate Research Symposium ($300) Jun 2014
12. **Graduate Students' Association for Professional Development Award** ($500) Apr 2014
13. **Intl. Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Travel Award** Apr 2014
14. **Faculty of Graduate Studies & Research Graduate Travel Award** ($1000) Feb 2014
15. **Graduate Program Scholarship** - Dept. of Biomedical Engineering ($6500) Jan 2012
16. **75th Anniversary Graduate Student Award** - Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry ($7000) Sep 2012
17. **Jason Lang Scholarship for Academic Excellence** - Government of Alberta ($1000) Sep 2009
18. **Undergraduate Student Award** - Alberta Ingenuity Fund Sep 2008
19. **Undergraduate Research Award** - NSERC ($4500) Sep 2008
20. **Peter Lougheed Leadership Scholarship** - UAlberta ($10000) Sep 2008
21. **Jason Lang Scholarship for Academic Excellence** – Government of Alberta ($1000) Sep 2008
22. **William S Ziegler Leadership Award** - UAlberta ($2750) Sep 2007
23. **Pat Heron Commemorative Bursary** - Faculty of Engineering ($3500) Sep 2007
24. **Jason Lang Scholarship for Academic Excellence** - Government of Alberta ($1000) Sep 2007
25. **William & Mary Hawrysh Memorial Leadership Entrance Scholarship** - UAlberta ($3000) Sep 2006
26. **Academic Excellence Scholarship** - Faculty of Engineering ($5000) Sep 2006
27. **Academic Excellence Scholarship** - UAlberta ($5000) Sep 2006

## Volunteer History

- **Instructor/Performer** – [Rapid Fire Theatre](http://rapidfiretheatre.com/) 2005 – Present
- **Co-Chair** – [Faculty of Engineering Graduate Research Symposium](http://fegrs-ualberta.com/) 2012
- **Governor** – [University of Alberta Board of Governors](http://www.governance.ualberta.ca/BoardofGovernors.aspx) 2009 - 2010
- **Vice-President External** – [UAlberta Engineering Students' Society](https://ess.ualberta.ca/) 2006 – 2007