EXECUTIVE TEAM
Robert Laganière
Phd, P. Eng
Chief Science Officer
Dr. Robert Laganiere has 25 years experience in computer vision and image/video analysis. He is co-founder of the VIVA research lab and is the author of several books, articles and patents in object detection and tracking, driver assistance, visual surveillance, embedded vision and deep learning. He is a professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Ottawa.
Robert has been involved in the creation and the growth of a number of startup companies such as Visual Cortek, iWatchLife, Cognivue and Sensor Cortek.
“Artificial Intelligence opens a new era in the development of visual analytics solutions.”
Wassim El Ahmar
MASc
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Wassim is a Ph.D. candidate and part time professor at the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at uOttawa. Wassim conducts research in machine vision and deep learning. He has several years of experience developing software machine vision solutions in different fields (broadcasting, thermal imaging, 3D sensors, autonomous vehicles, manufacturing quality inspection, etc.)