Dmitry O. Gorodnichy

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Technical reports:
- "Design and Evaluation of Automated Lie Detection systems"
- "Analysis of the effect of ageing on iris recognition performance"
- "Recognizing people and their activities in surveillance video"

Music & Songs:
- Christmas carols: multi-lingual, with chords
- «Shri Jobim»: bossa-nova reinterpreted

Greetings, Bonjour, Вітаю, День Добрый !

Professional:

I'm a Senior Data Scientist with 24 years of experience working with the Canadian Government. First, I worked at the National Research Council of Canada, where I was developing computer vision solutions for the Canadarm and Intelligent Vision Interfaces for users with disabilities. Subsequently, I worked at the Canada Border Services Agency as a Principal Investigator, acting Manager (bilingual position, for 5 years), responsible for evaluating Biometrics and Artificial Intelligence systems for Automated Border Control applications.

I was the Project Lead for the Video Recognition Technologies at NRC (2001-2007), Chair for National and International Conferences on Face Recognition and Video Recognition (2002-2008), the Chair for the Ottawa chapter of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2004), Lead for the Government of Canada Video Surveillance for National Security Community of Practice (2006-2012), Co-Lead of the Interdepartmental Video Surveillance Technology Evaluation and Research Group (2011-2014), Chair of the Canadian Advisory Council of the IEEE SC 37 / Biometrics (2011-2013), Project Lead for the "ART in ABC" (Analysis of Risks and Trends in Automated Boarder Control) study(2014-2015), Project Lead for the "AVATAR" Biometric-enabled Screening Technology project (2015-2018), the Lead for the R4GC Data Science Community of Practice (since 2021), and recently, the Lead for the CBSA Computer Vision Community of Practice (since January 2024).

Academic:

I studied Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (M.Sc. Applied Math, Diploma Cum Laude), the Institute of Cybernetics of Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kyiv (Ph.D. Math) and the University of Alberta (Ph.D. CompSci).

I’ve been Adjunct Professor at University of Ottawa (Dept. of Computer Science and Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics), École de technologie supérieure d'Université du Québec (Laboratoire d’imagerie et d’intelligence artificielle), University of Dalhousie (Dept of Computer Science).

Impact:

I am the most published and cited Government of Canada researcher in the field of video analytics and biometrics. I supervised over 30 undergraduate and graduate students. My work was featured several times in the success stories of the institutions I worked with. I've authored several award-winning scientific papers and inventions, including the Nouse® (Nose as Mouse) technology, which was featured world-wide and acquired as an artifact by the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa.

I received several Academic and Government awards, including "Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award" from the National Research Council of Canada, "Young Investigator Award" from the Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society, and the "Cultural Diversity Leadership Award" from the University of Alberta. I've been named the "Leader of Tomorrow" by the Partnership Group for Science and Engineering of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Canada.

Other interests:

I am a father of four daughters, two of whom graduated high school with the Governor General's Academic Medals. Their names are listed on the Governor General website: here and here. I enjoy teaching and playing with children (Waldorf pedagogy), love meeting people from different backgrounds, and seek for opportunities to support my communities with my skills and interests, among which are translations, piano tuning, playing team sports and musical instruments, composing songs, stargazing, earthing, plant-based diets, foraging, ice water dipping (Wim Hof). When I was a child, I did a lot of gymnastics (a member of the Ukrainian national "Olympic reserve" team). Since Fall 2023, I am taking Yoga Teaching Training with Yogamu Institute.

If anything of this is of interest to you, please let me know. Namaste!

Last updated: November 14, 2024

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