2016

Dr. Svetlana Yanushkevich, Dr. Habilitated, PhD, PEng

Pronouns: she/her

Positions

Professor

Schulich School of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Software Engineering

Full Member

Hotchkiss Brain Institute

Full Member

Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research and Education

Contact information

Web presence

Phone number

Office: +1 (403) 210-5410

Background

Educational Background

BSc/MSc in Electrical Engineering Electrical and Computer Engineering, State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Minsk, 1989

Doctor of Philosophy Electrical Engineering, State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Minsk, 1992

Dr. Habilitated Technical Sciences, Warsaw University of Technology, 1999

Research

Areas of Research

Biometrics

Biometric-enabled system design, biometric technologies, behavioral biometrics, biometric identity management, machine learning and signal processing for biometrics

Decision support systems

Machine reasoning, probabilistic graph models, Bayesian network, causal models, Bayesian decision support, cognitive systems, risk assessment, bias and trust assessment

Biomedical application

Biometrics for Healthcare, medical image processing, biomedical signal processing, wearables for biomedical applications

Computational intelligence (CI)

Machine learning and machine reasoning for data science, EDI data analysis

Participation in university strategic initiatives

Courses

Course number Course title Semester
ENCM 509 LAB 01 B01 Fundamentals of Biometric Systems Designs Winter 2022
ENCM 509 LAB 01 B01 Fundamentals of Biometric Systems Design Winter 2021
ENEL 610 LEC 01 01 Biometric Techonologies & Systems Winter 2021
ENCM 509 LEC 01 01 Fundamentals of Biometric Systems Design Winter 2020
ENEL 610 LEC 01 01 Biometric Techonologies & Systems Winter 2020
ENEL 453 Digital Systems design Fall 2019

Awards

  • Schulich School of Engineering Research Excellence Award, SSE, University of Calgary. 2019
  • Schulich School of Engineering Service Excellence Award, SSE, University of Calgary. 2017
  • Excellent Teaching Performance in course ENCM 509, 2014
  • Visiting Invitation Fellowship By Japan Society for Promotion of Sciences, Hokkaido University. 2012
  • Senior member, IEEE. 2001