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Cenk Sahinalp Email cenk@cs.sfu.ca Website compbio.cs.sfu.ca Office Phone 778-782-5415 Research Description Bioinformatics algorithms. Combinatorial algorithms. Research Keywords Bioinformatics Algorithms Combinatorial Pattern Matching Sequence Analysis Genome Repeats RNA Algorithmics Data Compression Biomolecular Networks Small Molecule Bioinformatics Metric Embeddings

Gloria Sampson Email gloria_sampson@sfu.ca Website http://www.educ.sfu.ca/fri/sampson/ Office Phone 778-782-4303 Research Keywords Applied linguistics English as a second language

Joti Samra Email jsamra@sfu.ca Website www.carmha.ca Office Phone 778-782-5263 Research Description Dr. Joti Samra, PhD, RPsych is a clinical psychologist and research scientist with the Centre for Applied Research in Mental Health and Addiction (CARMHA), Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University. She conducts applied research and clinical work in the area of mental health and addiction, with a particular interest in these issues as they pertain to the workplace context. Languages Punjabi Associations Research Scientist, CARMHA Board Member, Board of Directors, BC Psychological Association Committee Member, BC Psychologically Healthy Workplace Collaborative Clinical Associate, SFU Clinical Psychology Centre Director, Samra Psychology Corporation Registrant, College of Psychologists of BC Collaborations As part of her role with CARMHA, Joti has been a principal in the development, evaluation, and dissemination of a self-care manual for depression in the workplace (Antidepressant Skills at Work: Dealing with Mood Problems in the Workplace; Bilsker, Gilbert & Samra, 2007; www.carmha.ca/publications). She has also been involved in a range of activities on behalf of the BC Workplace Mental Health & Addiction Scientific Committee, including conducting a survey of the relevant research literature in the area of workplace mental health and addiction; development of a framework for conceptualizing workplace mental health issues across stakeholder groups and levels of prevention; and coordination of a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Scientific Congress on workplace mental health and addiction issues, to be held in Vancouver in May 2007. Other Dr. Joti Samra, Ph.D., R.Psych. is a clinical psychologist and research scientist with the Centre for Applied Research in Mental Health and Addiction (CARMHA), Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University. She conducts applied research and clinical work in the area of mental health and addiction, in collaboration with regional and provincial government. Dr. Samra has a private practice, where she works with individuals with depression, anxiety, and suicidality and self-harm behaviours. She also works with couples and with families where there is a history of abuse and/or neglect. Dr. Samra is the recipient of the Canadian Psychological Association’s New Researcher Award (2002). She remains active in a range of clinical, professional and educational ventures including serving as a Clinical Associate at the SFU Clinical Psychology Centre, where she supervises graduate students in clinical psychology; being a member of the BC Psychologically Healthy Workplace Collaborative; and involvement with the BC Scientific Committee on Workplace Mental Health and Addiction. Dr. Samra also serves on the Board of Directors for the British Columbia Psychological Association. Research Keywords Workplace Mental Health Workplace Stress Mental Health Depression Anxiety Suicide Stress

Nilesh Saraf Email nsaraf@sfu.ca Website www.sfu.ca/~nsaraf Office Phone 778-782-6725 Research Description Information technology (IT)management Social Networks Technology Standards Organizational theory IT Diffusion Languages Marathi, Gujarati, Hindi Associations INFORMS, Asso. of Information Systems, Academy of Management Collaborations -- Business value from information technology -- Networks of open source software projects -- Adoption of technology platforms and products Research Keywords Information technology Open source software Social networks IT standards IT diffusion

Betty Schellenberg Email schellen@sfu.ca Website http://www.sfu.ca/~schellen/ Office Phone 778-782-3095 Research Keywords Literature, 18th century Literature, English - criticism Literature, novels Literature, sequels Motion picture sequels Print culture Women authors

Michael Schmitt Email mschmitt@sfu.ca Website http://www.psyc.sfu.ca/people/index.php?topic=finf&id=99 Office Phone 778-782-6864 Research Description Intergroup conflict, group idenity, and responses to social inequality, Critical Mass, Collective Behaviour, Cycling Research Keywords Prejudice Intergroup relations Stereotyping Discrimination Cycling Bicycles Critical Mass

Nicolas Schmitt Email schmitt@sfu.ca Website http://www.sfu.ca/~schmitt/ Office Phone 778 782 4582 Languages French Research Keywords International Trade Migrations Industrial organization/competition policy

Marie Schneider Email marie_schneider@sfu.ca Office Phone 778-782-7496 Research Keywords Campus construction Surrey campus

Nadine Schuurman Email nadine@sfu.ca Website www.sfu.ca/gis Office Phone 778-782-3320 Research Description A GIScience (GIS) researcher with a focus on improving population health data in the interests of more powerful and more detailed spatial analysis. Research is concerned with ways of integrating large, multiple source data sets so they can be used in GIS for detailed population health analyses. Associations Association of American Research Keywords Geographic information systems Applied health informatics Community-based service delivery Determinants of health Health policy and systems management research Global positioning systems Health policy and systems management research Public, community and population health

Carl Schwarz Email cschwarz@cs.sfu.ca Website http://www.stat.sfu.ca/~cschwarz/ Office Phone 778-782-3376 Research Keywords Applied health informatics Health information and promotion research Health statistics and biostatistics Health status, measurement, needs assessment Methods Population biology of birds Statistical ecology Statistics and Probability

Allen Seager Email seager@sfu.ca Website http://cgi.sfu.ca/~wwwhist/cgi-bin/viewfaculty.php?view=27 Office Phone 778-782-5522 Research Keywords 20th century history British Columbia Canadian history Labour history Western Canada

Paul Sedra Email pdsedra@sfu.ca Website http://paulsedra.com Office Phone 778-782-7626 Research Description The principal focus of my research is the social and cultural history of the modern Middle East. Most recently, I have examined the connections between education and the rise of the modern state in nineteenth-century Egypt. To this end, my work has chronicled moments of contestation as to both the methods and the purposes of education — contestation between Anglican and Presbyterian missionaries, Ottoman and Egyptian officials, Coptic priests and Muslim reformers. In a different vein, given a longstanding interest in the popular culture of the Nasser era, I am undertaking both teaching and research in the history of Egyptian cinema — specifically, the film culture of the 1950s and 1960s. I am particularly interested in exploring the images of village poverty, colonial violence, family discord, and the subjugation of women that pervade such films. My current research considers the possible links between these images and such state priorities as eradicating ‘backwardness’ and ‘superstition,’ pacifying the ‘social body,’ and consolidating ‘modern’ forms of subjectivity — among them, the companionate spouse, the productive worker, and the patriotic citizen. Languages French Associations Middle East Studies Association Other Paul Sedra is Assistant Professor of History at Simon Fraser University. He has taught at Dalhousie University and the University of Toronto, and received his doctorate from New York University in January 2006. His doctoral dissertation examined how ideas about monitorial schooling were developed in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England, how monitorial methods filtered into Egypt in the mid-nineteenth century and, most importantly, how such methods were appropriated and shaped by Egyptians. Sedra has published articles in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, the Journal of Religious History, as well as the Middle East working paper series of Yale and Columbia Universities. Research Keywords Middle East Arab world Islam Egypt Arab Christians Christian-Muslim relations Arab cinema history of education history of religion Coptic Church

Kimary Shahin Email kns3@sfu.ca Website http://www.sfu.ca/linguistics/people/faculty/shahin.html Office Phone 778-782-5889 Research Description Phonology, Phonetics, Phonological Acquisition, Salish, Arabic Collaborations First Nations language documentation and revitalization Research Keywords Phonology Optimality Theory Phonetics Phonological Acquisition Salish Arabic

Paul Shaker Email paul_shaker@sfu.ca Website http://www.educ.sfu.ca/shaker/ Office Phone 778-782-3148 Research Keywords Teacher education Education policy and politics Curriculum

Stanley Jack (Stan) Shapiro Email sshapiro@sfu.ca Office Phone 778-782-5570 Research Keywords

Jerry Sheppard Email sheppard@sfu.ca Website http://www.sfu.ca/~sheppard/index.html Office Phone 778-782-4918 Research Description Why do business efforts fail? Lessons learned from such failures suggest ways to increase chances for future success. My research approaches the question: What can go wrong with the way a process is managed? Associations Academy of Management, ASAC Research Keywords Failure Bankruptcy

Keith Slessor Email slessor@sfu.ca Website http://www.sfu.ca/chemistry/faculty/retired/index.html Office Phone 778-782-4881 Other Retired Research Keywords Bio-organic chemistry Chemical biology Insect pheromones Pheromone biochemistry

Patrick Smith Email psmith@sfu.ca Website http://www.sfu.ca/politics/contact/smit.html Office Phone 778-782-3088 Research Keywords Affirmative action Canadian politics Comparative politics Constitutional reform Government and public administration Local/Urban/Metropolitan Pol/Govt Municipal and local government politics Political economy Political parties, Elections studies Public Policy Studies

Richard Smith Email smith@sfu.ca Website www.sfu.ca/~smith Office Phone 778-782-5116 Research Description Currently working on projects involving public surveillance and civic engagement, video games and society, online communities, wireless information society Collaborations Vancouver Community Newwork, BC.Net Research Keywords Information technology The Internet Videogames Surveillance Mobility and Society

SARA SMYTH Email sara_smyth@sfu.ca Office Phone 778-782-8829 Research Description Cybercrime; computer crime; focus on child pornography and child luring. International cybercrime issues. Associations International Cybercrime Research Centre (ICRC) Research Keywords cybercrime computer crime child pornography child luring law Internet

Jeremy Snyder Email jeremycsnyder@sfu.ca Website www.sfu.ca/~jcs12 Office Phone 778-782-3258 Research Description My research interests focus on our moral obligations toward vulnerable populations. I was trained in ethics within a philosophy department and have joined an interdisciplinary health sciences faculty that includes members from the natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences. My immediate research goals include developing interdisciplinary research projects that will apply ethical theories to the social determinants of health and health inequities in partnership with health researchers from outside of my own field. My current research project include an account of exploitation in sweatshops and human subject research, research on ethical issues in medical tourism and health worker migration, and an account of how to measure minimal risk in adolescents. Research Keywords Ethics Bioethics Public Health Ethics Medical Ethics Business Ethics Exploitation Sweatshops Health Worker Migration Price Gouging Medial Tourism

Dal Sohal Email dsohal@sfu.ca Office Phone 778-782-4678 Research Keywords Millennial students Generation Y Generations in the workplace

Paul Matthew St. Pierre Email stpierr@sfu.ca Website http://www.sfu.ca/~stpierr/dame/index.html Office Phone 778-782-5360 (Burnaby); 778-782-8659 (Surrey) Research Description Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures; Critical Theory; Biosemiotics; Performance Studies; British Music Hall and Film. Languages French, Dutch Associations Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies; Modern Language Association; Society for the Study of Narrative Literature Collaborations Paul Matthew St. Pierre and Xiaolin Liu, Preheat for an Overseas Life (Nanjing: Southeastern UP, 2003). Guidebook for Mandarin speakers in North America. Other 2005 Excellence in Teaching Award Research Keywords Barry Humphries Janet Frame British Music Hall History of Film Performance Studies Dada Biosemiotics Ewald Andre Dupont Information Theory Hand Movement

Landislav Stacho Email lstacho@sfu.ca Website http://www.sfu.ca/~lstacho Office Phone 778-782-4816 Research Keywords Algorithms Combinatorics Graph theory Hamilton cycles Interconnection networks Pure mathematics

Doug Stead Email dstead@sfu.ca Website http://www.sfu.ca/earth-sciences/people/faculty/stead.html Office Phone 778-782-6670 Research Description Application of engineering geology and rock mechanics to resource geotechnics including mining, forestry, and energy. Application of geological engineering principles to Natural Hazards Associations Professional Engineer (APEGBC), Chartered Engineer (CEI UK) VP Technical Canadian Geotechnical Society Member of ISRM. IAEG, IMM, FGS, CIM, BGA Research Keywords Resource geotechnics Geological engineering/Engineering Geology Rock engineering Rock slope Stability Laser Scanning Digital photogrammetry Numerical modelling Surface Mining Undergroun Mining Forestry Geotechnics

Eleanor Stebner Email estebner@sfu.ca Website http://www.sfu.ca/humanities/home-Stebner.htm Office Phone 778-782-5769 Associations Canadian Society of Church History Research Keywords women and religion interreligious social change

Tamon Stephen Email tamon@sfu.ca Website http://www.math.sfu.ca/~tamon/ Office Phone 778-782-7429 Languages French Research Keywords Optimization, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Combinatorics

Kennedy Stewart Email kennedys@sfu.ca Website http://www.sfu.ca/mpp/01about_us/stewart.html Office Phone 778-782-7913 Research Description Federal, provincial, municipal elections, non-electoral participation, cities, politics, political science, public policy Associations Graduate Public Policy Program Collaborations Think City Research Keywords Democracy Elections Cities Public Policy Politics Public participation

John Stockie Email stockie@math.sfu.ca Website www.math.sfu.ca/~stockie Office Phone 778-782-3553 Research Description I am interested in mathematical modeling of problems arising in the motion of fluids, particularly when the fluid motion is coupled to some other physical phenomenon. Most commonly, these problems are described by coupled systems of nonlinear partial differential equations which require that numerical simulations be performed in order to analyse the results. Associations Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics MITACS Collaborations Ballard Power Systems Teck Cominco Research Keywords Fluid dynamics Fuel cells Industrial mathematics Scientific computing Flow in porous media Pollutant transport Fluid-structure interaction Bio-fluid dynamics

David Stouck Email stouck@sfu.ca Office Phone 778-782-3134 Research Keywords Geoffrey Chaucer Literature, American Literature, English Canadian

Mary-Ann Stouck Email mary-ann_stouck@sfu.ca Website http://www.sfu.ca/humanities/facstaff.htm Office Phone 778-782-3134 Research Keywords Hagiography Medieval literature Medieval studies Medieval hagiography Middle ages culture Middle Ages religion

John Stubbs Email jstubbs@sfu.ca Website http://cgi.sfu.ca/~wwwhist/cgi-bin/viewfaculty.php?view=28 Office Phone 778-782-5512 Research Keywords Britain British history Mackenzie King Political history

June Sturrock Email sturrock@sfu.ca Website http://www.sfu.ca/~sturrock/ Office Phone 778-782-4333 Research Keywords Literature, English Literature, Victorian Poetry, romantic Women in literature

Jeff Sugarman Email sugarman@sfu.ca Website http://www.educ.sfu.ca/fri/sugarman/ Office Phone 778-782-3835 Research Keywords Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology Educational Psychology Sociocultural theories of psychological development Historical Ontology Hermeneutic approaches to psychological research

Tim Swartz Email tim@stat.sfu.ca Website http://www.stat.sfu.ca/~tim/ Office Phone 778-782-4579 Research Keywords Appoximation theory Bayesian methods and applications Calculus Inference Statistical computing Statistics and Probability Statistics in sport