AICONS Lab

Our Team

A multidisciplinary team using AI to understand and improve brain health.

Principal Investigator

Maged Goubran, PhD

Canada Research Chair in AI & Computational Neurosciences

Senior Scientist, Physical Sciences Platform & Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute
Associate Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto
Imaging & AI lead, Harquail Centre for Neuromodulation
Theme Lead, Black Centre for Brain Resilience and Recovery
Affiliate Scientist, Temerty Centre for AI Research and Education in Medicine

Computational Neuroscience Artificial Intelligence Neuroimaging Neuromodulation Connectomics

Lab Staff

Kimberly Allen

Administrative Assistant

Jonas Osmann, PhD

Lead Research Software Developer

Neuroimaging Deep Learning

Andrew Clappison, MCS

Research Software Developer

Neuroimaging Machine Learning

Shruti Patel, BSc

Research Technician
co-supervised with Dr. JoAnne McLaurin

Neuroimaging Alzheimer's disease Tissue clearing/LSFM

Alex Nyman, BSc

Research Assistant
co-supervised with Dr. Jennifer Rabin

Neuromodulation Neuroimaging Alzheimer's disease

Sarah Naseem, MSc

Research Assistant
co-supervised with Dr. Julie Ottoy

Neuroimaging Computational Neuroscience Data Science

Spencer Gable-Cook

Research Assistant
co-supervised with Dr. Bojana Stefanovic

Chloe Jacquet

Research Assistant
co-supervised with Dr. Julie Ottoy

Postdoctoral Fellows & Scientists

Dr. Julie Ottoy, PhD

Jr. Scientist, SRI
Asst. Professor, Dept. of Medicine (Neurology), UofT

Alzheimer's Association · BrightFocus · Brain Canada

Alzheimer's disease Neuroimaging Brain Connectivity Vascular Co-pathology

Min Su (Peter) Kang, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow
co-supervised with Dr. Sandra Black

CIHR · Alzheimer Society

Alzheimer's disease Multimodal Biomarkers Multi-omics Machine Learning

Erin Gibson, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow
co-supervised with Dr. Andrew Lim

Medical Image Analysis Machine Learning Brain Biomarkers Sleep Physiology

Trainees

Ahmadreza Attarpour, MSc

PhD Student
co-supervised with Dr. Bojana Stefanovic

VAST · MBP

Deep Learning Microscopy Electrophysiology Alzheimer's disease

Amin Banihashemi, MD, BSc

PhD Student
co-supervised with Dr. Sandra Black

CIHR

Eye Biomarkers Alzheimer's disease OCT Basal Forebrain

Matthew Rozak, BSc

PhD Student
co-supervised with Dr. Bojana Stefanovic

VAST · OGS · MBP

Microscopy Traumatic Brain Injury Optogenetics Deep Learning

Tony Xu, BASc

PhD Student
co-supervised with Dr. Anne Martel

NSERC · Google Research

Deep Learning Computer Vision Self-Supervised Learning Medical Image Analysis

Jazlynn Tan, BSc

PhD Student
co-supervised with Dr. Bojana Stefanovic

A-STAR

Biology Imaging Data Science Machine Learning

Brendan Wood, BEng

PhD Student

OGS

Neuroimaging Alzheimer's disease Machine Learning

Katrina Carver, BSc

MSc Student

NSERC

Alzheimer's Disease AI Neuromodulation

Summer Students 2026

Kashaf Masood

Summer Research Student, Sunnybrook Research Institute
MEng Biomedical Engineering Student, University of Toronto

T-CAIREM, University of Toronto

Alzheimer's disease Neuroimaging Brain Connectivity

Alumni

Parisa Mojiri, MSc

Software Developer

Melissa McSweeney, MSc

Research Assistant

Lyndon Boone, MSc

NSERC MSc Student

Rui Zhu

Undergraduate Student

Catherine Yeh

Undergraduate Student

Hantang Li

Undergraduate Student

Edward Ntiri, MSc

Graduate Student

Anthony Rinaldi, MSc

Research Software Developer

Jacqueline Heaton, MSc

Research Software Developer

Cindy Hu

Summer Student

Grace Fengqing Yu

Summer Student

Lab Photos

November 2025

December 2022

August 2022