This is episode 190 of the Swallier Pride Podcast.

And today's guest is Dr. Ervin Sedgick.

He received his bachelor's and PhD degrees

in electrical engineering from the University of Western Ontario,

London, Ontario, Canada in 2002 and 2008, respectively.

From 2008 to 2010, he was a postdoctoral fellow

at the University of Toronto with a cross-support appointment at Bloorview Kids Rehab,

Canada's largest children's rehabilitation

teaching hospital.

From 2010 until 2011, he was a research fellow at Harvard Medical School,

they cross appointment at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

From 2011, until recently, 2021, he was a faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh.

And in 2021 he just recently joined the University of Toronto as a faculty member.

He has also the research chair in Artificial Intelligence for Health Outcomes at North York

General Hospital in Toronto. From his earliest exposure to research, he has been eager to contribute

to the advancement of scientific

knowledge through carefully executed experiments and groundbreaking published work.

This has resulted in co-authoring over 150 publications.

In February 2016, President Obama named Dr. Sedgic

as a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award

for Scientists and Engineers.

In 2017, Dr. Sedgick was awarded the National Science Foundation

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