Parham Aarabi

Professor, Canada Research Chair, and Director of the Artificial Perception Lab

Prof. Parham Aarabi is a Canada Research Chair in Multi-Sensor Information Systems, a Professor in The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the founder and director of the Artificial Perception Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. (2001) in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, M.A.Sc. (1999) in Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto, and B.A.Sc. (1998) in Engineering Science (Electrical Option) from the University of Toronto. His recent awards include the Ontario Distinguished Researcher Award, the 2002 Fall Session Best Computer Engineering Professor Award, the 2002/2003 Faculty of Engineering Early Career Teaching Award, the 2003 ECE Professor of the Year Award, and the 2004 international IEEE Mac Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award . His current research, which includes multi-sensor information fusion, human-computer interactions, and VLSI implementation of sensor fusion algorithms, has appeared in over 50 peer-reviewed publications and covered by media such as the New York Times, MIT's Technology Review Magazine, Scientific American, Populer Mechanics, Discovery Channel, CBC Newsworld, and City TV.