Syed Tanbeer

Biography

Education

• PhD in Computer Engineering
• MSc in Computer Science
• BSc (Honours) in Applied Physics and Electronics

Job experience

• Professor, Faculty of Applied Science and Technology, Sheridan College, Oakville, Canada (2018–present)
• Professor (Part-time/Partial load/Sessional) Faculty of Applied Science and Technology, Sheridan College, Oakville, Canada (2015–2018)
• Professor (Partial load), School of Applied Technology, Humber College, Toronto, Canada (2014–2018)
• Sessional Lecturer, Department of Computer & Mathematical Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Canada (2016)
• Professor (part-time), Information and Communication Engineering Technology Department, Centennial College, Toronto, Canada (2015)
• NSERC Industrial Research and Development Fellow (Adi Labs Inc., Markham, Canada) (2013–2015)
• Industrial Research & Development Fellow (part-time), Adi Labs Inc., Markham, Canada (2013–2013)
• Post-Doctoral Fellow, Database and Data Mining Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada (2010–2013)
• Sessional Instructor, Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada (2011–2013)
• Post-Doctoral Fellow, Data and Knowledge Engineering Lab and Ubiquitous Computing Lab, Department of Computer Engineering Kyung Hee University, South Korea (2010)

Award

• NSERC Industrial Research and Development Fellowship, (2013-2015)

Research funding

• Innovation Vouchers Program, Alberta Innovates – Technology Futures (as NSERC-IRDF contributed to developing the opportunity assessment and securing the funding) (2013)
• Project involvement
• Centre for Applied AI (formerly known as the Centre for Mobile Innovation) – Cloud DX industrial project (role: PI) (2022–present)
• Centre for Applied AI (formerly known as the Centre for Mobile Innovation) – Caribou Health Technologies industrial project (role: PI) (2021–2022)
• Centre for Applied AI (formerly known as the Centre for Mobile Innovation) – Closing the Gap industrial project (role: PI) (2020–2021)
• Smart engine for intelligent patient scheduling and real-time optimization (role: researcher) (2014–2015)
• Smart engine for intelligent patient scheduling and real-time optimization (role: researcher) (2013–2015)
• Socially interactive clinical decision support system (role: researcher) (2010)
• Secured WSN-integrated cloud computing for uLifecare (role: researcher) (2010)

US Patent

• Radhesh Mohandas, Syed K. Tanbeer, Deepak S. Gupta, System and method for detecting phishing webpages, US patent (No. 61/829,364), 2015

Contributions to research

Supervising the project team involved in conducting research and developing a mixed reality-based system that uses the Microsoft HoloLens2 and a biosensor feature-rich wearable called VitalitiTM to receive real-time patient vitals and present these vitals, coupled with patient profile information, including trends and analysis in holographic panels. The primary goal of the holographic visualizations and user interfaces developed in the system is to present medical information in intuitive ways to support rapid decision-making for healthcare professionals monitoring patients on a ward or in a clinic.

Selected publications

Syed K Tanbeer and Edward R Sykes, MyHealthPortal – A web-based e-Healthcare web portal for out-of-hospital patient care, Digital Health Volume 7: 1–23, 2021, DOI: 10.1177/2055207621989194

Syed K Tanbeer, Edward R Sykes, Sasipriya Arun and Sara Ross-Howe, MiVitals–Mixed Reality Interface for Vitals Monitoring: A HoloLens based Prototype for Healthcare Practices, IEEE International Conference on Digital Health (IEEE-ICDH), 2023, (accepted as work-in-progress paper).