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Postdoctoral Fellowship Opening: Kids Help Phone AI Project

RML is hiring a Post-Doctoral Fellow to work on an agentic AI framework for training frontline mental health support workers, in partnership with Kids Help Phone.

Three RML Papers Accepted to EMBC 2026

RML has three papers accepted to IEEE EMBC 2026 in Toronto, covering multilingual emotion recognition, weakly-supervised breast lesion segmentation, and facial expression synthesis …

$3.2M Wellcome Grant for Kids Help Phone AI Project

Dr. Khan leads TMU's role in a $3.2M Wellcome-funded project with Kids Help Phone to develop a generative AI simulator for training frontline youth mental health crisis responders.

RML at ICASSP 2026: PC-SSL for EEG Emotion Recognition

Niki Sheibani and Dr. Khan present PC-SSL at ICASSP 2026 — a predictive coding self-supervised learning framework for EEG-based emotion recognition, achieving state-of-the-art …

NSERC CREATE Grant: QuantOmics

Dr. Khan leads QuantOmics, Canada's first training pipeline bridging quantum nanotechnology, genomic data science, and AI — funded by NSERC CREATE to train 93 HQP over six years.

Recent Publications

Towards Practical Emotion Recognition: An Unsupervised Source-Free Approach for EEG Domain Adaptation

EEG-based emotion recognition systems face significant challenges when deployed across different domains due to limited labeled data and individual signal variability. We introduce …

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PC-SSL: A Predictive Coding-Based Self-Supervised Learning Framework for EEG Emotion Recognition

We introduce a predictive coding self-supervised learning (PC-SSL) approach to overcome the limitations of traditional supervised methods hindered by the high cost of labeling EEG …

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Stress Classification From ECG Signals Using Vision Transformer

Vision transformers have shown tremendous success in numerous computer vision applications; however, they have not been exploited for stress assessment using physiological signals …

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DynaGuide: A Generalizable Dynamic Guidance Framework for Zero-Shot Guided Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation

We propose DynaGuide, a generalizable dynamic guidance framework that enables zero-shot guided unsupervised semantic segmentation without requiring labeled training data. The …

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Enhanced Cross-Dataset Electroencephalogram-Based Emotion Recognition Using Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

We propose an enhanced unsupervised domain adaptation framework for EEG-based emotion recognition that achieves robust cross-dataset generalization without requiring target-domain …

Md Niaz Imtiaz