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
Junior Software Engineer, Full Stack
Andrea Nava-Barrios
Operations Manager
Aparna Balagopalan
Research Engineer, Machine Learning
Aysen Armagan
Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack
Azi Shams
Clinical Research Associate
Bill Simpson
Senior Director, Clinical Operations
Celia Fidalgo
Senior Product Lead
Danielle DeSouza
Scientist, Psychiatry
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
Maria Yancheva
CTO & Cofounder
Melisa Gumus
Research Coordinator
Mengdan Xu
Biostatistician
Nicola Johnson
Senior Manager, Business Development
Rachel Kindellan
Data Quality Associate
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