Ida Moalemi is a GIS Specialist on the geo-spatial team at Stantec. She received her Master’s degree in Geography (2023) from the joint program between Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo, where she was a member of the Remote Sensing of Environmental Change Research (ReSEC) group. During this time, she studied the interaction between climate change and lake ice phenology using machine learning techniques under the supervision of Prof. Homa Kheyrollah Pour and Prof. Andrea Scott. Before that, Ida spent one year in the graduate GIS program at the University of Tehran and gained experience in geo-spatial data analysis and web-based GIS. Ida holds a bachelor's in Civil-Surveying Engineering from the University of Isfahan.
Prof. Dr. K. Andrea Scot is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering department at the University of Waterloo. She received her Bachelor of Applied Science Mechanical Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada in 1999, Master of Applied Science Mechanical Engineering at McMaster University, Canada in 2001, and Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada in 2008. Her research interests include turbulence, computations, data-driven analysis, machine learning, and data fusion, including infrared, optical, and microwave data. Her research group investigates new ways to extract information from high-dimensional datasets from models or remote sensing instruments. Her research group has been looking into physically based approaches and data-driven approaches that maintain the fidelity of the physical system.
