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On the occasion of the Fellowship's 20th anniversary, we congratulate the 2022 inductees: 

Charmaine Dean is Vice-President, Research and Professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo. Her research interest lies in the development of methodology for disease mapping, longitudinal studies, the design of clinical trials, and spatio-temporal analyses. She is a member of the Mitacs College of Reviewers and of College of Reviews of the Canada Research Chairs Program. She is Associate Editor of Biometrics, of Environmetrics, and of Statistics in Biosciences, and Senior Editor of Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology.

Taha Jaffer is focused on AI, big data, and natural computing for Global Treasury Markets at Scotiabank. He was previously the lead data scientist in Scotiabank’s Data Science and Analytics Lab and was responsible for large-scale AI initiatives in Global Treasury, Global Banking & Markets, Wealth Management, and Commercial Banking. Before Scotiabank, Taha was a Special Executive Advisor in AI at TD, a principal at the Carlyle Group, and has held senior positions in multiple asset management firms with a focus on alternative investments.

Dr. Sharmistha Mishra is an infectious disease physician and mathematical modeler and holds a Tier 2 Canadian Research Chair in Mathematical Modeling and Program Science. After completing medical school and residency training (Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases) at the University of Toronto, she obtained a Masters of Science degree in epidemiology and a Doctor of Philosophy in mathematical modelling at Imperial College London. She joined St. Michael’s Hospital in September 2014. She was also involved in the 2014-2015 Ebola response in Sierra Leone, as a consultant with the World Health Organization, from December 2014 to July 2015.

Neil Seeman is the Founder and former Chief Executive Officer of RIWI Corp., a global trend-tracking, risk monitoring and prediction technology firm. His academic and commercial work seeks to collect a unique stream of individual, community-based, and country-wide sentiment data from more than 200 countries and territories in the world for organizations such as the UN World Food Programme, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the United States Agency for International Development, The World Bank, the US State Department and BofA Securities. He was recently named a Senior Fellow at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health’s Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME).

Vahid Tarokh joined Duke University in 2018 as the Rhodes Family Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics and Bass Connections Endowed Professor. His research is in pursuing new formulations and approaches to getting the most out of datasets. Current projects are focused on representation, modelling, inference and prediction from data such as determining how different people will respond to exposure to certain viruses, predicting rare events from small amounts of data, formulation and calculation of limits of learning from observations, and prediction of a macaque monkey's future actions from its brain waves.

Bálint Virág is known for his work in probability theory, particularly determinantal processes, random matrix theory, and random walks and other probabilistic questions on groups. He received his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 2000, under the direction of Yuval Peres, and was a postdoc at MIT. He started working at UofT as a Canada Research Chair in 2003. Virág was awarded a Sloan Fellowship (2004), the Rollo Davidson Prize (2008), and the Coxeter–James Prize (2010). He was an invited speaker for the 2014 International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul.