UNDERGRADUATE BIG DATA DAY FINALISTS
Our Panelists

Deepak Kaura
Chief Medical Officer for 1QBit
Deepak serves as 1QBit’s Chief Medical Officer and as the Chair of the Board of Joule, a Canadian Medical Association subsidiary. Before this, he had spent 5 years in Qatar with the Sidra Medical and Research Center, most recently as the Executive Chairman of the Foundational Clinical Services Management Group, where he helped to set new standards inpatient care for women and children and led ground-breaking work in the application of machine learning to healthcare. Deepak has also served the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada as a Subspecialty Chair in Pediatric Radiology and has established a number of startups in the healthcare space

Eleanor Haine-Bennett
Program Officer for Natural Sciences for Canadian Commission for UNESCO
Eleanor Haine Bennett is the Program Officer for Natural Sciences at the Canadian Commission for UNESCO. She has a background in ecology research, science communication, and STEM education, and is the former Executive Director of a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in Eastern Ontario.

Suzanne Kettley
Executive Director of Canadian Science Publishing
Suzanne Kettley is the Executive Director of Canadian Science Publishing (CSP), Canada’s not-for-profit leader in mobilizing scientific knowledge and publisher of 24 journals including FACETS, Canada’s first multidisciplinary open access science journal. With three decades of experience as a scientific publishing professional, Suzanne has held several positions in the company and led the team during CSP’s transition from the federal government to the private sector. She currently serves on the Boards of Directors for the Canadian Association of Learned Journals (CALJ) and STEM Fellowship, the editorial board of Scholarly and Research Communications, and a funder-publisher task force for the Society for Scholarly Publishing

Dr. Michael Duong
Head of Personalized Healthcare Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd
Michael is an experienced professional and senior leader in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. He has held roles in scientific research and development, pharmaceutical consulting, and health economics and outcomes research. He is currently the Head of Personalized Healthcare at Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. where he is fully accountable for the integration and implementation of commercial, medical, and access strategies to drive the success of a diverse portfolio focused on transforming the healthcare system through innovative personalized healthcare solutions.

Sacha Noukhovitch
Founder and President of the STEM Fellowship
Sacha Noukhovitch is the Founder and President of the STEM Fellowship – a charity organization that equips the next generation of change-makers in STEM with indispensable skills in data science and scholarly writing through peer mentorship and experiential learning. He is also an Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Science Publishing STEM Fellowship Journal – the national scholarly publication of original student research as well as a practicing educator implementing data science education at Earl Haig Secondary School, Toronto.
Judges

Kashif Siddiqui
kliq.ca

Dean Callahan
Hoffmann-La Roche Limited

Jodi Garner
Hoffmann-La Roche Limited

Donna Janzen
Hoffmann-La Roche Limited

Olayinka (Yinka) Awoyemi
SAS User Group

Sean Rourke
University of Toronto

Christopher Gravel
Health Canada

Agnes Klein
Health Canada

Ann Meyer
Ontario Genomics