We want to improve the lives of people with dementia and psychiatric illness. To do this, we’re building better, more sensitive tools that will allow us to track, screen for and predict the onset of these diseases more accurately.
Winterlight Labs was founded in 2015 in Toronto, Canada by Frank Rudzicz, Katie Fraser, Liam Kaufman and Maria Yancheva. Our team of experts specializes in computational linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and machine learning. We have developed a proprietary, tablet-based technology that assesses cognitive health (including memory, thinking, and reasoning) by analysing hundreds of language markers from short snippets of speech.
Aaron Rambhajan
Software Engineer, Full Stack
Ali Akram
Software Engineer, Machine Learning
Andrea Nava-Barrios
Head of Operations
Azi Shams
Clinical Research Associate
Bill Simpson
Head of Partnerships
Celia Fidalgo
Head of Product
Denisha Kathiriya
Clinical Research Coordinator
Faryn Starrs
Clinical Research Coordinator
Gillian Kafka
General Counsel & CPISO
Ian Loblaw
Senior Software Engineer, DevOps/Compliance
Jekaterina Novikova
Director, Machine Learning
Jessica Robin
Director, Clinical Research
Jordan Ponn
Senior Software Engineer
Liam Kaufman
CEO & Cofounder
Malikeh Ehghaghi
Intern Software Engineer, Machine Learning
Maria Yancheva
CTO & Cofounder
Marija Stanojevic
Research Scientist, Machine Learning
Mary Spear
Operations Coordinator
Melisa Gumus
Research Analyst
Mengdan Xu
Biostatistician
Michael DiBernardo
Vice President, Engineering
Michael Spilka
Scientist, Psychiatry
Nicola Johnson
Senior Manager, Business Development
Rachel Kindellan
Associate Product Manager
Rachel Newsome
Product Manager
Sara Gluchowski
Head of Clinical Operations
Sasha Sirotkin
Head of Engineering
Shirin Nassiri
Project Manager
Valerie Closson
Clinical Operations Manager
Andrea Iaboni
Scientific Advisor
Geriatric Psychiatrist and Clinician-Scientist, Toronto Rehab Institute
Frank Rudzicz
Cofounder & Scientific Advisor
Scientist, St Michael's Hospital
Jed Meltzer
Scientific Advisor
Neurorehabilitation Scientist, Baycrest Centre