Dr. Han is an IDRC-sponsored postdoctoral fellow currently working on modeling COVID-19 transmission in Africa.

Dr. Zahra Movahedi Nia is a postdoc at York University. Her research interests include data modeling, system identification, data mining, machine learning, and deep learning. She is currently working on modeling and identifying factors of economic damage caused by COVID-19 pandemic using machine learning and data analyzing techniques. 

Dr. Xu holds a Ph.D. in Mining Engineering from the University of British Columbia, complemented by a cross-disciplinary background in Machine Learning, Minerals Processing, and Mechanical Engineering. He has seven years of research experience in ore sorting integrated with Machine Learning and Data Analysis.