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The Most Important Thing
A number of years ago I had vision of starting a company and I decided to use my PhD to accomplish this task. While starting Blue Lion Labs I am fortunate to be surrounded by a number of advisors that counsel me in my journey. I wanted to share a lesson I recently learned from one of my mentors:
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SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco
This past week I gave a presentation titled “A Multispectral Bayesian-based Computational Microscopy Method for Enhancing Image Quality” at the SPIE Photonics West conference in San Francisco. San Francisco is a beautiful city with many great restaurants and sites, one of which is the famous Golden Gate Bridge. My colleague and I rented bikes at Pier 39 and biked across the bridge into Sausalito. While on our bike ride I snapped the following photo on the south side of the bridge near the Fort Point National Historic Site.
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Dr. T.E. Unny Award
This past week I had the honour of receiving the Dr. T.E. Unny Memorial Award. The late Dr. T.E. Unny was a professor in Civil Engineering and Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo from 1965 until 1991. This award was given right before the Miroslaw Romanowski Lecture, which was hosted by the Water Institute. At this lecture Dr. Keith Hipel was awarded the Miroslaw Romanowski Medal and delivered his presentation titled “Negotiations over Groundwater Contamination”.
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Water Quality Technology Conference in Toronto
This past week I gave two talks presenting my research about building a system to automatically identify algae. The first talk was at the 25th Latornell Conservation Symposium in Alliston, Ontario which “explores the status of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River and the lands that connect them in order to assess the work currently underway to protect, conserve and enhance them”.
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International Student Competition in China
Last week I participated in the first Future Engineers for Water and Environmental Safety (FEWES) International Student Competition which took place in Tianjin, China. This competition focused on low-cost water technology with environmental and/or public health benefits and was hosted by the Sino-Canada Joint R&D Center on Water and Environmental Safety (SCWE). 13 teams from China, Canada, and the United Kingdom each presented their solutions to a panel of international judges from China, Canada, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States for 20 minutes, followed by 5 minutes of questions. The judges had the task of choosing one first place prize, two 2nd place prices, and three 3rd place prizes.