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Jorge Calderón Email calderon@sfu.ca Website www.sfu.ca/french Office Phone 778-782-7638 Research Description 20th-Century and Contemporary Literature; Cultural Studies; Sexual Diversity; Identity and Otherness; Globalisation; France, Québec, and Francophonie Languages Spanish, French Research Keywords Literature Cultural Studies France Québec Francophonie Sexual Diversity Globalisation Identity Otherness

Andy Calvert Email acalvert@sfu.ca Website http://www.sfu.ca/earth-sciences/people/faculty/calvert.html Office Phone 778-782-5511 Research Keywords Geophysics Mineral exploration Orogeny Seismic date processing Seismology Stratigraphy Structural geology and tectonics Structure and dynamics of the earth's interior Surficial, quarternary

Jiguo Cao Email jca76@sfu.ca Website http://www.stat.sfu.ca/~jca76/ Office Phone 778-782-7600 Research Description 1. Functional Data Analysis Functional data analysis (FDA) addresses the analysis of information on curves or functions. As an example, FDA can be useful for analyzing growth curves of children that are constructed based on body height measurements made over some specific growing period. In this example, FDA would treat one growth curve as one functional data entity. Without any assumption on the parametric forms for growth curves, the discrete measurements for body heights can be transferred into a continuous curve by nonparametric smoothing. With FDA we study many important features of curves such as growth rates, which are derivatives of growth curves. In fact, it is the many uses of derivatives that are the central theme of FDA. Topics in FDA include: 1). Curve Registration: Align multiple curves with similar shapes by transformation in the time domain. 2). Functional Principal Component analysis: Finding major variations among multiple curves. 3). Functional Linear Models: Estimating relationships between functions. 4). Estimating Differential Equations from real data: including ordinary, partial, or stochastic differential equations. 5). Estimating Constrained Functions: The constraints can be positive functions, or strictly monotone functions, etc. 2. Estimating Dynamic Models from noisy data Dynamic models, usually written in forms of differential equations (DEs), describe the rate of change (expressed as derivatives) of a process defined in time, space, or some other continuum. They are widely used in medicine, engineering, ecology and a host of other areas. For example, in classical mechanics, the motion of an object is described in terms of its position, velocity (the first derivative of the position function) and acceleration (the second derivative of the position function) as time varies. Newton`s Laws of motion use DEs to relate the position, velocity, acceleration and forces that act on an object. Very few real-world DEs can be solved analytically, and numerical approximation is almost always the only option in the large and realistic world of nonlinear DEs. The DE solutions can be very sensitive to DE parameters and initial values of DE components. One central and difficult problem is how to estimate DE parameters from noisy data available throughout an interval. In the field of engineering, this is called the system identification problem. The system identification problem is not new. When DEs have analytical solutions, this problem is essentially nonlinear regression (Bates and Watts 1988). However, most DEs are not analytically solvable. Bock (1981, 1983) proposes a multiple shooting method for estimating DEs, which partitions the whole interval into segments and applies a nonlinear optimization procedure over each segment. Himmelblau et al. (1967) integrate DEs by numerical quadrature and convert DEs to nonlinear equations. De Boor and Swartz (1973) use piecewise polynomial functions to approximate DE solutions by collocation, i.e., by the requirement that piecewise polynomial functions satisfy DEs at some fixed points. Ramsay and Silverman (2005) estimate the derivatives of the underlying curves by nonparametric smoothing and then estimate DE parameters using standard nonlinear regression. Huang, Liu, and Wu (2005) use a Bayesian approach, numerically solving DEs when updating DE parameters. Recently Ramsay and his team have developed the generalized profiling method to estimate DEs. The idea is to approximate DE solutions with nonparametric curves, which are estimated by penalized smoothing with DE-defined penalty. The method has several unique aspects: First, the computation load for estimation is much lower than those traditional methods. It only takes less or about one minute in all examples we have worked; Second, the optimization surface is much smoother when approximating DE solutions with smoothing curves, and hence it is easier to find the global minimum; Third, that the initial values of DE components can be estimated by evaluating the smoothing curves at the first point. The DE solutions with the estimated initial values tend to fit the data better; Fourthly, Missing DE components are also relatively easy to incorporate; Finally, standard errors and confidence intervals for DE parameter estimates can be obtained quickly. More details about this method can be found in our papers 3. Nonparametric Smoothing 4. Statistical Genetics Languages Mandarin Research Keywords data analysis dynamic models

Wanda Cassidy Email cassidy@sfu.ca Website www.cels.sfu.ca Office Phone 778-782-4484 Research Description Social justice and human rights education, legal literacy, at risk and marginalized youth in schools, ethic of care and creating caring school environments, cyber-bullying and cyber-kindness Collaborations Legal literacy for youth project - grades 6-10, involving several schools and school districts. Focus on human rights, environmental sustainability, citizenship and identity issues. Cyber-bullying and cyber-kindness project - research involving students, school administrators/counsellors and parents Alternates school environments for at-risk youth, including aboriginal youth The theory and practice of the ethics of care in schools (involving several teachers and school administrators) Research Keywords social justice education ethics of care in schools legal literacy at risk and marginalized youth human rights education cyber-bullying and cyber-kindness

Alexander Chapman Email alchapma@sfu.ca Website http://www.psyc.sfu.ca/people/faculty.php?topic=finf&id=97 Office Phone 778-782-4924 Research Description Dr. Alex Chapman's research focues on emotion regulation, borderline personality disorder (BPD) and dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT). Dr. Chapman trained for two years as a post-doctoral fellow with Dr. Marsha Linehan in DBT. At Simon Fraser University he conducts clinically relevant research on BPD, DBT, and emotin regulation. Associations Member, ABCT, APA, CPA Research Keywords Emotion regulation Borderline PD Dialectical behaviour therapy

Cedric Chauve Email cedric.chauve@sfu.ca Website http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/~cchauve Office Phone 778-782-7091 Research Description Design of mathematical models, algorithms and softwares for comparative genomics, evolutionary genomics and metagenomics. Languages French Associations International Society for Computational Biology Canadian Mathematical Society Collaborations Ancestral eukaryotic genome reconstruction. Collaboration with INRIA Lyon. Models and algorithms for genome rearrangements. Collaboration with University of LIRMM (Montpellier) and INRIA Lyon. Metagenomics of viral communities. Collaboration with University of Hawai and University of Quebec at Montreal. Computational analysis of RNA secondary structures. Collaboration with University of Bordeaux I. Research Keywords Mathematical modelling Algorithm design Comparative genomics Evolutionary genomics Metagenomics Discrete Mathematics

Michael Chen Email mxchen@sfu.ca Website www.sfu.ca/~mxchen/ Office Phone 778-782-5786 Research Description Raman spectroscopy of skin cancer Languages Mandarin, Cantonese Research Keywords Raman spectroscopy cancer nanomedicine superconductivity

Elise Chenier Email echenier@sfu.ca Website http://cgi.sfu.ca/~wwwhist/cgi-bin/viewfaculty.php?view=4 Office Phone 778-782-8573 Research Description My research interests explore sexuality in the 20th century. I have written about the historical origins of sexual deviancy and sex offender treatment programs, prison sex cultures, postwar lesbian cultures, gay marriage, and the history of homosexuality generally. Associations Canadian Historical Association; American Historical Association, Committee for Lesbian and Gay History; Canadian Committee for Women's History Collaborations I am currently in the process of building an online digital archive of lesbian oral testimony. Research Keywords sex offenders lesbians women homosexuality history sexual deviancy gay marriage prostitution

Stephen Kwok-Kwong Choi Email choi@cecm.sfu.ca Office Phone 778-782-3636 Research Keywords Analytic number theory

Eng Choo Email choo@sfu.ca Website http://www.sfubusiness.ca/homes/index.php?employeeID=10052 Office Phone 778-782-4209 Research Keywords Analytical hierarchy process (AHP) Decision theory Goal programming Inventory management Leadership Management Organizational behaviour, Organizational change Social issues Women executives

Colin Chow Email colin_chow@sfu.ca Office Phone 778-782-7168 Research Keywords Education Professional Development Programs Teacher education Partnerships (SFU faculty of education and School districts) BC Teachers' Federation BCCT

Peter Chow-White Email petercw@sfu.ca Website http://www.cmns.sfu.ca/people/faculty/chow-white_p/ Office Phone 778-782-7289 Research Description Dr. Chow-White's research focuses on the Internet and the effects of social media and new media on society. He also researches emerging issues in biotechnology, genomics and bioethics; One of his primary interests is the the effects of these new technologies on race and ethnic relations. Research Keywords Social Media Internet New Media Technology Biotechnology Science Genomics Bioethics Social Networks Race/racism

Julian Christians Email julian_christians@sfu.ca Website http://www.sfu.ca/biology/faculty/christians Office Phone 778-782-5619 or 778-782-3977 (lab) Research Description I am interested in the physiological and genetic mechanisms underlying phenotypic variation within species, i.e., variation in whole-organism traits such as size, fecundity and behaviour. I am motivated by questions such as ‘What genes and pathways are involved in adaptations?’ and ‘How and why do people vary in medically important traits?’. Languages French Research Keywords Genetic variation Growth Genetic testing Association mapping

Shaw Christopher Email shaw@sfu.ca Website www.sfu.ca/~shaw Office Phone 778-782-7506 Research Description Researcher in Virtual Reality, Two-Handed User Interfaces, Free-form Surface Design, Bioinformatics Visualization. Co-Architect of The MR Toolkit. Associations ACM, IEEE Computer Research Keywords Virtual Environments Bioinformatics Visualization Two-Handed Human-Computer Interaction

Stephanie Chu Email stephanie@sfu.ca Office Phone 778.782.7244 Research Description - Online learning - Program/curriculum development - Teaching development for new faculty, graduate students and TAs/TMs - Educational technology / instructional technology - Instructional design - Project management: post secondary Associations American Educational Research Association (AERA) Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) Educational Developers Caucus (EDC) Canadian Network for Innovation in Education (CNIE) University Colleges and Institutes Professional Development (UCIPD) Collaborations - SFU Web Integration Portal Enhancement (SWIPE) - Work Integrated Learning Online Learning Community - Social Networking @ SFU - Teaching & Learning Task Force Research Keywords instructional technology educational technology program development online learning social networking instructional design teaching development

Dorothy Chunn Email d_chunn@sfu.ca Website http://www.sfu.ca/sociology/01department/biographies/chunn.html Office Phone 778-782-4761 Research Keywords Analysis of the human experience of disease, disability, trauma and chronic illness Crimes against women, Violence Feminism, law and policy Health Ethics, Law and Humanities; Social studies of medical knowledge and technologies Health and health care of diverse and disadvantaged populations Historical criminology Mass media Political crime Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioural determinants of health Public, community and population health

John Clague Email jclague@sfu.ca Website www.sfu.ca/earth-sciences/people/faculty/clague.html Office Phone 778-782-4924 Research Description Hazards and risk related to naturally occurring processes in western Canada, including earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, and floods. Impacts of climate change on the landscape and vegetation. History and character of ice-sheet glaciation in British Columbia during the Pleistocene. Research Keywords Natural hazards Earthquakes Tsunamis Landslides Floods Climate change

Alex Clapp Email aclapp@sfu.ca Website http://www.sfu.ca/geography/people/faculty/Faculty_sites/AlexClapp/index.htm Office Phone 778-782-3718 Research Keywords Caribbean Economic geography Ecosystem management Forest management Latin America Resource Management Temperate rainforests Third World development

Allyson Clay Email allyson_clay@sfu.ca Office Phone 778-782-3363 Research Keywords Critical theory Feminist theory Mixed media Visual arts

Bruce Clayman Email clayman@sfu.ca Website http://www.sfu.ca/physics/people/faculty/clayman/profile.html Office Phone 604-291-7677 Research Description Economic Impacts of University Reserach. Commerciaization productivity. Technology transfer Associations CPROST Collaborations Michael Smith Foundation for Health Reserach; Vancouver Economic Developement Commission; Discovery Parks Research Keywords Economic Impacts Technology transfer Commerciaization productivity.

John Cochran Email jcochran@sfu.ca Website http://www.sfu.ca/physics/associate/emeriti/cochran/ Office Phone 778-782-4549 Research Keywords Ferromagnetism Magnetic Excitations in Ferromagnetic Materials

Lenard Cohen Email cohen@sfu.ca Website http://www.sfu.ca/internationalstudies/biocohen.html Office Phone 778-782-4518 Research Keywords Communism Comparative politics Constitutional studies Eastern Europe Ethnic politics Russia (Russian Federation) Russian foreign policy Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro)

Marjorie Cohen Email mcohen@sfu.ca Website http://www.sfu.ca/polysci/contact/mcon.html Office Phone 778-782-5526 Research Keywords Canada, Canadian economy, Political Economy Deregulation, Free Trade, International Trade Economic Development, Technological Change and Growth Electricity industry Gender politics Health, culture, and society Labour issues Public policy studies Sexuality Women and the economy

Boyd Cohen Email bcohen@sfu.ca Website www.3rdwhale.com Office Phone 778 384 0733 Research Description Sustainable (environmentally, socially and economically) innovative business ventures. Languages Spanish Associations Centre for Sustainable Community Development Collaborations Have done work on the 2010 Olympic Village in Vancouver. Other Besides my research I also teach sustainable entrepreneurship and have a company, 3rdwhale.com, which is a social networking site for green consumers worldwide. 3rdwhale.com is the promoters of the greenest person on the planet and the greenest student on the planet competition. Also, we have a mobile application that enables users to easily find green businesses in their city so they can be green on the go. Research Keywords Sustainability Innovation Entrepreneurship

Theodore Cohn Email cohn@sfu.ca Office Phone 778-782-3145 Research Keywords Canada Canada-United States-Mexico relations Global trade policy International Relations International economic organization International relations theory Political economy Regional trade policy

Rick Colbourne Email rick_colbourne@sfu.ca Website http://business.sfu.ca/lsg/ Office Phone 778-782-5133 Research Keywords organizational learning management learning leadership training executive training music

Konrad Colbow Email konrad_colbow@sfu.ca Website http://www.sfu.ca/physics/associate/emeriti/colbow/ Office Phone 778-782-4844 Research Keywords Biophysics Physics

Colleen Collins Email colleen_collins@sfu.ca Website http://www.sfubusiness.ca/homes/index.php?employeeID=10080 Office Phone 778-782-5836 or 778-782-5293 Research Keywords Brand equity Marketing Marketing research Retail industry Service quality

Lynn Copeland Email copeland@sfu.ca Website www.lib.sfu.ca Office Phone 778-782-3265 Research Description Library technology and innovation, university libraries, libraries and elearning, libraries and the social web, library collaboration Associations Canadian Assoc. of Research Libraries Chinese Cdn Historical Society of BC Collaborations Multicultural Canada digitization project Research Keywords Library technology Academic libraries Libraries and elearning Libraries and the social web

Parzival Copes Email percival_copes@sfu.ca Website http://www.sfu.ca/~copes/ Office Phone Adjunct Professor Research Keywords

Lesley Cormack Email lcormack@sfu.ca Office Phone 778-782-4415 Research Description History of science; especially history of renaissance cartography, geography, and mathematics. Also history of exploration; 19th century Darwinism; history of domestic technology Research Keywords history geography cartography exploration maps technology household

Raymond Corrado Email raymond_corrado@sfu.ca Website http://www.sfu.ca/criminology/facstatt.httm Office Phone 778-782-3629 Research Keywords Crime & young offenders Violent youth

David Cox Email david_cox@sfu.ca Website http://www.psyc.sfu.ca/people/faculty.php?topic=finf&id=56 Office Phone 778-782-6667 Research Description health and human performance Research Keywords Sports psychology Health psychology Behavioural psychology

John Craig Email johnc@sfu.ca Website http://cgi.sfu.ca/~wwwhist/cgi-bin/viewfaculty.php?view=7 Office Phone 778-782-5816 Research Keywords 16th century history 17th century history Book history British history Cultural history Ecclesiastical history History of religion Reformation history Renaissance history Social history

Charles Crawford Email crawford@sfu.ca Website http://www.psyc.sfu.ca/people/faculty.php?topic=finf&id=90 Office Phone 778-782-3660 Research Keywords Animal behaviour Anorexia Cognitive psychology Eating disorders Evolutionary psychology Genetic psychology Individual differences Psychopathology Sociobiology and behavioural ecology

Bernard Crespi Email crespi@sfu.ca Website http://www.sfu.ca/biology/faculty/crespi/ Office Phone 778-782-3533 or 778-782-5625 (lab) Research Keywords Animal ecology Australian acacia thrips Comparative social evolution Ecology of speciation Evolution of insect reproductive behaviour Evolutionary biology Insect behaviour evolution, Insect evolution Molecular phylogenetics Sociobiology and behavioural ecology Taxonomy, systematics and phylogenetics

Valorie Crooks Email crooks@sfu.ca Website http://www.sfu.ca/geography/people/faculty/Faculty_sites/ValorieCrooks Office Phone 778-782-3507 Research Description My established research interests are characterized by four interrelated areas of inquiry:(1) Socio-spatial Processes of Disablement; (2) Doctor-patient Interactions; (3) Geographies of Primary Health Care; and (4) Social Polices and Programs. Associations I am Chair of the Disability Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers. I sit on the Advisory Committee of the Disabilities Health Research Network. I hold Adjunct status in the Critical Disability Studies Programme at York University. I am also a mentor in the Health Care, Technology & Place Strategic Training Program based at the University of Toronto. Collaborations With a group of York University researchers and community health centres I am involved in examining how female newcomers to Toronto, Ontario (those within their first 6 years post-migration) experience mental health and distress and the appropriateness of the existing primary mental health care system to meet their needs. Other I am currently undertaking a CIHR-funded national evaluation of Canada''s Compassionate Care program (an EI special benefit). Research Keywords Disability Chronic illness Primary health care Doctor-patient interactions Family caregiving Palliative care Compassionate Care Benefit Family medicine Women''s health Primary mental health care

Daryl Crozier Email crozier@sfu.ca Website http://www.sfu.ca/physics/people/faculty/crozier/profile.html Office Phone 778-782-4827 Research Keywords Condensed matter physics Electronic properties of solids Environmental science Molecular beam epitaxy Scanning x-ray microspectroscopy Surfaces, interfaces and thin films Synchrotron radiation X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) X-ray standing wave (XSW) XAFS (EXAFS and XANES) spectroscopy

Jorge Cruz Email jacruz@sfu.ca Office Phone 778-782-4822 Research Description I am very interested in the empirical side of finance. In the area of corporate finance, I am interested in the empirical analysis of corporate decisions involving restructuring, SEOs, and real options. In the area of empirical asset pricing I am interested in volatility forecasting, asset return comovement, and extreme value modeling. Languages Spanish Research Keywords Finance Financial Engineering Financial Risk Management Business Economics Asset Pricing Business Cycle Accounting Government

Dara Culhane Email culhane@sfu.ca Website http://www.sfu.ca/sociology/faculty/biographies/culhane.html Office Phone 778-782-5479 Research Keywords Aboriginal peoples, First Nations, Land claims - British Columbia Colonialism Community-based service delivery, Community health Cross-cultural studies Enthography Feminist theory Health ethics, law and humanities; Health systems and society; Health and health care of diverse and disadvantaged populations Law and anthropology, Law and Justice, Medical Anthropology

Dianne Cyr Email cyr@sfu.ca Office Phone 778-782-7416 Research Keywords Web design across cultures Web design