Brief Biography

After receiving his B.A.Sc. (Eng Sci, UofT 1999) and M.A.Sc. (Photonics, UofT 2000), Eddie spent 5 years in Ottawa, (JDSU, 2000 and Tropic Networks, 2000-5) building and architecting state-of-the-art reconfigurable optical networks - providing the enabling technology for VOIP, Video-on-demand, and other mission critical information transport. In 2005, Eddie returned to the University of Toronto for his Ph.D. in Machine Learning and Mathematical Finance under the joint supervision of Prof. Brendan Frey and Prof. Sebastian Jaimungal .

Eddie holds 9 patents (more pending) and authorships to numerous publications in the area of optical networking. Eddie's current research is funded by the NSERC CGSD award and the Bell 125th Anniversary Scholarship.

email: eddie(at)psi.utoronto.ca

Research Interests:

* Machine Learning

* Mathematical Finance

* Computer Vision