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# Welcome!

We are group of graduate students at University of Toronto working on NLP for healthcare.

   

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### Alister D'Costa
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*PhD Student, MSc Computer Science, University of Toronto*

I am a Computer Science PhD Student in the lab of Jared Simpson at the University of Toronto & OICR. My research is in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics with a focus on long read genome assembly algorithms and structural variation detection.

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### Stefan Denkovski
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*Masters of Applied Science (Biomedical Engineering), University of Toronto*

I am a MASc student researching multimodal computer vision. I am interested in anomanly detection and applying these methods to fall detection. Previously, I have worked on biomedical signal processing projects. I am working out of IATSL at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute.
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### Michal Malyska
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*Masters of Statistics, University of Toronto*

I am a part-time MSc. student in Statistics at University of Toronto focusing on Machine Learning. Currently working at a startup in the clinical ML space. My current research revolves around Clinical NLP and improving training procedures for Energy Based Models.
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### Sally Moon
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*Masters of Applied Science (Biomedical Engineering), University of Toronto*

I am a MSc student researching machine learning approaches to predicting student depression using smartphone sensors. I am affiliated with IBBME at University of Toronto and IATSL at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute.
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### Brandon Rufino
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*Masters of Health Science, University of Toronto*

Hello! I am a MHSc student at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehab Hospital. My research involves signal processing and machine learning techniques to develop an audio detection interface which will be integrated into a music education application for children with varying motor abilities.
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