Souradeep Dutta

Dr. Souradeep Dutta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia. Before joining UBC he was a postdoctoral researcher at the PRECISE center in University of Pennsylvania. He received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder, and Bachelors in Engineering from Jadavpur University, India.  His research interests are in artificial intelligence, robotics, and formal methods. These methods often find applications in cyber-physical systems and healthcare. He focuses on fundamental problems in machine-learning: how to learn efficiently from data, and how to provide formal assurances that learned models behave safely and reliably. 

Leah Lambert

Dr. Leah Lambert is a Senior Scientist at the BC Cancer Research Institute and Clinical Associate Professor at the MacIsaac School of Nursing. Her research focuses on health equity, models of care, and workforce issues in cancer care. She leads research that is closely connected to practice and policy, with the goal of improving how cancer care is designed and delivered to support better access, experiences, and outcomes.

Sima Sajjadiani

Dr. Sima Sajjadiani is an Associate Professor in the Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources Division at UBC Sauder School of Business. She received her PhD in Work and Organizations from the University of Minnesota. Her research examines how organizations can manage human capital more effectively, equitably, and adaptively, with particular attention to how organizations make decisions about employees and manage workforce change and uncertainty. Her work combines large-scale organizational data with machine learning, natural language processing, econometrics, and field experiments. Her research has appeared in Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and ILR Review, and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, BBC, CNBC, and Harvard Business Review. She serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Journal of Business and Psychology.

Steven Shechter

Dr. Steven Shechter is Professor and Chair of the Operations and Logistics Division at the UBC Sauder School of Business. His research focuses on applying optimization, dynamic programming, and simulation modeling to healthcare decisions. He has extensive experience collaborating with clinicians and health policymakers on various projects, including pediatrician scheduling at BC Women’s Hospital, operating-room allocation at BC Children’s Hospital, dialysis planning for patients with kidney disease, matching patients and donors for kidney transplantation, and patient scheduling at mass vaccination clinics. At UBC Sauder, Professor Shechter has taught courses in simulation modeling, decision analysis, optimization, and statistics.

Wei Zhang

Dr. Wei Zhang is a health economist and associate professor in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at UBC. She is also a Scientist and Program Head of Health Economics at the Centre for Advancing Health Outcomes (formerly CHÉOS). Dr. Zhang’s research aim is to integrate theoretical and empirical findings with health policies, services and practices through the application of economic theories and methods in health research. As a former Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar, Dr. Zhang’s program of research focuses on developing methods that measure and value work productivity loss among patients and caregivers as an important patient-reported outcome and cost component from a societal perspective; and applying these methods in economic evaluations of new health care interventions to inform health care decision making. Her research interests also include pharmaceutical policy and access to medicines, and the linkage of pharmaceutical databases to increase research capacity