My recent research projects can be described as (scientific computing) artificial intelligence algorithms and their applications (medical datasets including image datasets, climate change/wildfire datasets, financial datasets, engineering, and optimization problems). I finished my Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at the University of Maryland (1996-2000). I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Management, McGill Univ. (2000-2002). I am a tenured full professor the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Thompson Rivers University (TRU), Kamloops, BC, Canada. Also, I am an Affiliate Researcher at the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada. I have a strong record of post-secondary teaching, and supervising students and postdoctoral fellows. Also, I have maintained my NSERC discovery for ~20 years and started to apply grants to CIHR and Michael Smith Foundation (MSF), where I apply swarm intelligent algorithms (SIAs) with global optimization, industrial engineering, operations research, and data mining.

The Experience More initiative at Thompson Rivers University is seeking proposals for several 12-14 week projects from a variety of organizations that have project needs in the fields of digital marketing, finance, sustainability, public relations, and writing. Organizations need only to present their real-world problems to solve and groups of Undergraduate and Graduate Business Students students or individual students will select the projects to work on for the term of the experiential learning opportunity.Bring on one more students from Thompson Rivers University enrolled in the Experience More initiative to work with you in a project-based experience. Students are available for a maximum of 50 hours (over the duration of the course) for the project.

Welcome to Level UP, powered by Riipen! This unique initiative enables employers to engage Canadian post-secondary students for 80-hour paid projects. Students receive a $1,400 CAD stipend from Riipen upon successful project completion. Employers are not required to provide payment.Please note that only TRU students can participate in this 'TRU Level UP: September 2023 - March 2024' experience.

These projects will focus in Business Administration, HR, Marketing, Communications, and Supply Chain.