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Authors
Amirhossein S. Aghaei (aghaei@ece.utoronto.ca) received
his master's and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer
engineering from the University of Toronto in 2008 and
2014, respectively. He was an industrial postdoctoral
researcher at the University of Toronto and Qualcomm
Canada Inc. from 2014 to 2016, after which he joined
Microsoft. His fields of expertise include driver state monitoring, physiological signal processing, brain-computer
interfacing, machine learning, and big data analytics.
Birsen Donmez (donmez@mie.utoronto.ca) received
her B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Bogazici
University in 2001. She received an M.S. degree in 2004
and her Ph.D. degree in 2007, both in industrial engineering,
and an M.S. degree in statistics in 2007, all from the
University of Iowa. She is currently an associate professor
at the University of Toronto in the Mechanical and
Industrial Engineering Department. She is the Canada
Research Chair in Human Factors and Transportation. Her
research focuses on improving human behavior and performance in multitask situations. She received the inaugural
Stephanie Binder Young Professional Award from the
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society in 2014 and an
Ontario Early Researcher Award in 2015. She serves on
multiple Transportation Research Board committees and is
an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on HumanMachine Systems.
Cheng Chen Liu (cheng.liu@mail.utoronto.ca.)
received her B.A.Sc. degree in computer engineering from
the University of Toronto, where she is currently an
M.A.Sc. student with the Electrical and Computer
Engineering Department. Her research interests include
computer vision and machine learning, focusing on videobased driver monitoring.
Dengbo He (dengbo.he@mail.utoronto.ca.) received his
bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Hunan
University, Changsha, China, in 2012 and his M.S. degree in
mechanical engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong
University, Shanghai, China, in 2016. He is currently a
Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto in the Mechanical
and Industrial Engineering Department. His research interests include vehicle dynamics and control, human factor,
and driver behavior.
George Liu (geo.liu@utoronto.ca) received an honors
bachelor of arts degree from the University of Toronto
and is currently a master's student in industrial engineering at the University of Toronto and holds a second
master's degree in urban transportation planning. His
research focuses on driver feedback design and human
factors analysis.
Konstantinos N. Plataniotis (kostas@ece.utoronto.ca)
is a professor and the Bell Canada Chair in Multimedia with
the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is a Registered
Professional Engineer in Ontario and a fellow of the
Engineering Institute of Canada. He has served as the edi-

tor-in-chief of IEEE Signal Processing Letters and the technical cochair of the 2013 IEEE International Conference in
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. He is the IEEE
Signal Processing Society vice president for membership
(2014-2016) and the general chair of the 2018 IEEE
International Conference on Image Processing. He received
the IEEE Canada Engineering Educator Award for contributions to engineering education and inspirational guidance of
graduate students. His research interests include statistical
signal processing, knowledge and digital media design,
multimedia systems, biometrics, image processing, biomedical signal processing, and pattern recognition. He is a
Fellow of the IEEE.
Huei-Yen Winnie Chen (win.chen@mail.utoronto.ca) received her B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc. degrees in systems design
engineering from the University of Waterloo in 2005 and
2007, respectively, and her Ph.D. degree in industrial engineering from the University of Toronto in 2013. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toronto
in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department.
Her research interests are understanding and improving human-technology interactions in dynamic, complex systems
using advanced analytical methods. Her research areas have
included applications in transportation, health care, defense,
and aerospace.
Zohreh Sojoudi (zohreh.sojoudi@mail.utoronto.ca)
received her bachelor's degree in clinical psychology from
the University of Tehran, Iran, in 2012. She is currently in
her fourth year of studying cognitive science at the
University of Toronto, Faculty of Arts and Science. Her
research focuses on behavioral driver monitoring and cognitive neuroscience.

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