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Christopher Anand
BMath (Waterloo), MSc (McGill), PhD (McGill)
Managing Director
Associate Professor
Dr Anand is an Associate Professor at McMaster University, with 12 years of experience delivering Computer Science Outreach in K-12. He has worked in and collaborated with industries from medical electronics to high-performance computation, resulting in 19 patents. His 46 graduate students work in startups and large companies like Amazon, Google and IBM. His publications are available from Google Scholar.
Sukyong Yang brings over 30 years of international experience in institutional and private wealth investment management, auditing, and consulting work across three continents. She has diverse experience in investment portfolio management and comprehensive knowledge of global equities. She is a Chartered Accountant (CPA, CA) and has a Chartered Financial Analyst designation (CFA). Ms. Yang is currently an adjunct professor at Concordia University in Montreal and the Director of the Kenneth Woods Portfolio Management Program (KWPMP). As director of the KWPMP, Ms. Yang provides training and management development to a select group of undergrad students who are motivated and bright with exceptional ability to unleash their potential.
MacPherson Institute for Leadership, Innovation, and Excellence in Teaching Student Partner, working to develop a strategy to improve accessibility to CS education for individuals with visual impairments. Secured funding from the COVID-19 Immunity Task Force (Government of Canada) to mentor GTHA youth in grades 6-12 to use Design Thinking and software-based solutions to help increase vaccine confidence within communities of their choice such as BIPOC and aging populations. Teacher trainer at McMaster Start Coding.
Staff
Chris loves using math and coding to change his little corner of the world, one student at a time! In the 7+ years he has been volunteering with us, our 30,000+ students have compiled well over 6 million programs using the tools Chris has developed. He has run programs helping new Canadian youth develop apps to adjust to their new lives in Canada, and last year as a Wilson leader, he led a group of youth tackling vaccine hesitancy through design thinking and coding. In 2022, he graduated from the Software Engineering & Society program at McMaster, receiving Governor General's Silver Academic Medal and the Ontario Engineers Foundation for Education Gold Medal. He is currently a Master of Computer Science candidate developing and evaluating a novel framework to create interactive, multi-user applications.
Narges is dedicated to leveraging technology to enhance education and empower learners. She brings a wealth of experience and passion to her role at STaBL Foundation. Narges's academic journey includes an MSc in Computer Science from McMaster University, where her research focused on creating innovative tools to teach computational thinking to children and novice programmers. Before this, she earned a master's degree in Digital Humanities from the University of Pisa, Italy, where she focused on data science courses and her thesis on data analytics in the telecom domain. She also contributed as a research collaborator at the National Research Council of Italy. Her diverse background underscores her commitment to integrating technology and education to foster learning and development."
I'm Sheida — freshly graduated with a Master’s in Computer Science and endlessly curious about Software Engineering. I love learning, teaching, and geeking out over ways to make CS education more fun and accessible. Big dream? Helping students actually enjoy learning CS concepts.
Maryam is an R&D Data Scientist at STaBL Foundation. She has a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and a master’s in Computer Science, and her work sits at the overlap of those two fields: mathematical reasoning, data science, and software engineering. She builds interactive tools and activities that make learning to code more engaging. Writing code is only part of it. What she really cares about is the thinking behind it, the logic, the problem-solving, the concepts most people skip over. She likes taking ideas that feel abstract or intimidating and turning them into something students can actually explore and visualize..
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