Prof. Grace Iarocci received a Ph.D. in Psychology from McGill University in 2004. Presently, she is the Director of the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Lab (ADDL) and a Professor of Psychology at Simon Fraser University. She was also a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar and a faculty mentor of the Autism Research Training Program (ART). She is past president of the Board of Directors of Autism Community Training and works closely with government and community agencies in BC to disseminate research information on ASD and influence policy on ASD and other developmental disabilities. In 2018, she received the Professional of the Year award from Autism BC. She also received the SFU Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Dean’s Medal of Academic Excellence in 2019. Her research interests include developmental psychopathology and the development of attention and perception in individuals with pervasive developmental disorders, intellectual disability, and risk and protective factors in the development of Aboriginal children.
Sylvain Moreno, PhD, is an Associate Professor in Computational Neuroscience at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University, Special Advisor to the Vice-President Research and International Office, and Scientific Director of AGE-WELL National Innovation Hub: Circle Innovation.
Prof. Sam M. Doesburg earned an H.B.Sc. in psychology at the University of Toronto in 2002. He completed his Ph.D. in neuroscience at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 2008, which focused on the role of communication within distributed cortical networks in perceptual and cognitive processes. Currently, he is a Professor at the Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University, and an SFU Co-director of the Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience Institute. His research focuses on the role of neural oscillations in functional brain networks and their dynamics. Specifically, he is interested in how brain network communication develops throughout childhood and adolescence and contributes to the maturation of cognitive abilities. In tandem, this research seeks to understand how altered communication in brain networks contributed to developmental difficulties in clinical child populations and disorders with a particular focus on autism. In addition to this academic work, he is also pursuing commercial EEG applications as CSO of Proteus NeuroDynamics.
