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.

Looking to elevate your organization, and bring it to the next level? Bring on students from Thompson Rivers University registered in the Course to be your student-consultants, in a project-based experience. Students will work on one main project over the course of the semester, connecting with you as needed with virtual communication tools. The Service-Learning Course at Thompson Rivers University is seeking Virtual proposals for several 10-week projects. Organizations present their real-world problems to solve and groups of students or individual students will select the projects to work on for the term of the experiential learning opportunity. Students are available up to 5 hours per week for the experience. Students are in a mixed program cohort. The class may be made up of the following degree areas: Bachelor of Business, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Computing Sciences, Bachelor of Science (Biology, Chemistry), Engineering and Bachelor of Natural Resource Sciences.

Do you have an environmental or natural resources challenge you would like to tackle from an economics perspective? In this course, student-consultants working in small groups will examine your environmental, ecological or resource problem and then identify, analyze and critique economic solutions. They will tackle the challenge by addressing economic efficiency; externalities, common resources and public good provision issues; the theory of nonrenewable natural resources; cost-benefit analysis; ecological economics and green accounting; and the economics of climate change. The students will develop a report and presentation for your organization upon completion of the project.

Are you considering expanding your company and exploring global markets? Student-consultants will develop an actionable marketing plan for your organization to expand into a new international market or improve marketing efforts within an existing international market.