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سه ایرانی در بین مهاجران برگزیده سال ۲۰۱۹ کانادا

سه ایرانی در بین مهاجران برگزیده سال ۲۰۱۹ کانادا

بانک آر بی سی هر سال در کانادا از بین مهاجرانی که برای رسیدن به هدف شان سختی ها را به دوش می کشند تا موفق شوند ۲۵ نفر را انتخاب می‌کند.

این مسابقه ۱۱ سال است که برگزار می‌شود و امسال در میان افرادی که به فینال این مسابقات راه پیدا کرده اند نام ۳ ایرانی به چشم می‌خورد.

از میان صدها شرکت کننده ۷۵ نفر به فینال می رسند و از بین آن ها ۲۵ نفر برنده می شوند.

از تورنتو

Mitra-Mohamadzadeh

میترا محمد زاده
موسس آکادمی تغییر
Academy Of Change

Mitra Mohamadzadeh

Founder, Academy of Change
City: Toronto
Country of Origin: Iran

Mitra Mohamadzadeh is a resilient, independent and self-motivated Kurdish woman from Iran who came to Vancouver, B.C., with her teenage son, Mehrzad, in 2012. She was an international ESL student from beginner level and diligently worked hard to learn English as her fourth language. Meanwhile, she became a member and started volunteering with Dress for Success in Vancouver.

In 2014, Mohamadzadeh and her son moved to Toronto. She earned certificates in HR at Sheridan College and ACCES Employment, and Canadian workplace essentials with OTEC, Toronto. In 2015, Mohamadzadeh survived her third near-fatal car accident that transformed her life just like a wake-up call! She lived through the challenges and discovered the opportunity. Despite the injuries and pain, she got her first job in Canada at the City of Toronto, as an HR clerk and was nominated as a resilient and positive attitude employee, and the 5th Annual Civic Run Achiever/Winner at the City of Toronto.

She has volunteered her time to welcome community centres, refugee shelters, the Human Resources Professional Association, Toastmasters International, Ontario Society of Seniors Citizens Organization, and more.

Currently she is an author, motivational speaker, trainer, a certified coach, a PhD candidate in human resources management at Walden University, a member of Canadian Association Professionals Speakers (CAPS), a member of Human Resources Association Professionals (HRPA), a Toastmaster communicator, and founder of Academy of Change to help immigrants and newcomers overcome barriers to personal and professional development.

Mohamadzadeh is nw the author of the upcoming book Walk with Myself: a Kurdish Woman’s Journey to Freedom featuring the Dare to Grow personal and professional development system. This system helps immigrants feel engaged with the world around them so they can live and work more effectively and productively. This book includes her inspirational stories of accepting and embracing change over adversity in Canada. She is also the co-author of the upcoming book Border Crossers: Where Positive Change Meets Positive Leadership.

She is best known for her theory, “Three simple pillars for personal growth,” which is a framework that helps newcomers/immigrants and teams to achieve goals sooner with more confidence and high performance.

She has touched the lives of thousands of immigrants through a blueprint of skills through positive change and encouraging them to understand the privilege of being in Canada, and abilities to connect, engage and accept the beauty of Toronto’s multicultural, multi-gender and multigenerational culture.

از ونکوور

Maryam-Sadeghi

مریم صادقی
مدیرعامل شرکت
MetaOptima Technology

Maryam Sadeghi

CEO, MetaOptima Technology
City: Vancouver
Country of Origin: Iran

Maryam Sadeghi, CEO of MetaOptima Technology, earned her bachelor of science in computer engineering from the University of Science and Technology in Tehran, Iran. After moving to Canada in 2008, she completed her PhD in computing science from Simon Fraser University in 2012. During this time, she received the CIHR Skin Research Training Scholarship in dermatology, which had a crucial role and impact on her professional and personal life.

Understanding the power of data, Sadeghi recognized the potential for using technology in dermatology. In 2012, she co-founded MetaOptima Technology with Majid Razmara in Vancouver, where MoleScope and DermEngine were developed for intelligent dermatology to aid with a better diagnosis and treatment decisions for skin cancer and other skin, hair and nail diseases. The company was one of 10 that was shortlisted for the 2013 BCIC New Ventures Competition, and won a $40,000 Wavefront Wireless prize package.

In 2014, Sadeghi also won the Venture Prize from Coast Capital Savings. From 2013 to 2015, Sadeghi was director of the Digital Health Hub (Innovation Boulevard), where she was actively involved in R&D and commercialization activities. She also worked closely with the Gerontology Research Centre (GRC) at SFU on innovative health solutions for senior care and independent living. In 2016, Sadeghi made the Business in Vancouver’s Forty Under 40 Awards List for her innovative work and successful commercialization of the DermEngine platform and MoleScope dermoscope, serving thousands of doctors and patients globally.

Recently, she was appointed as a MITACS Research Council member, was credited as one of B.C.’s most influential women in BC Business magazine, and her company was listed as a “Ready To Rocket” business in the area of digital health. Since its development, MetaOptima has become one of the fastest-growing digital health technology companies, attracting international investors for the global growth of the company, starting with a successful expansion into Australia and the U.S. market. As the company actively works to have a positive impact on the Canadian economy through creating jobs and exporting Canadian technologies, MetaOptima will continue to extend its reach globally to serve millions of patients globally.

از نیوبرانزویک

Ali-Ghorbani

پروفسور علی قربانی
رئیس و موسس پژوهشکده کانادا در زمینه امنیت سایبری

Ali Ghorbani

Professor of Computer Science; Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Cybersecurity; director of Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity
City: Fredericton, New Brunswick
Country of Origin: Iran

Ali Ghorbani came to Canada with his wife, Mahin, and three children, Baharak, Babak and Forough, in 1991 and have called it home ever since. Ghorbani held a variety of positions in academia for the past 37 years, over 20 years of it at University of New Brunswick (UNB). As a professor and an entrepreneur, he worked to create opportunities for his students and colleagues to excel. Most of his graduate students either went on to become entrepreneurs, faculty members or work at companies such as IBM, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, to name a few.

Currently, Ghorbani is a professor of Computer Science, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Cybersecurity, and director of the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity, which he established in 2016. The institute is a comprehensive multidisciplinary training, research and development, and entrepreneurial unit with more than 50 researchers and graduate students.

He served as the dean of the faculty of computer science at the University of New Brunswick for nine years, from 2008 to 2017. He is also the founding director of the laboratory for intelligence and adaptive systems research, as well as the co-founder of the Privacy, Security, Trust (PST) Network in Canada and the organizer of its annual international conference. He served as general chair and program chair/co-chair for 14 international conferences and workshops.

Ghorbani has spent the last 27 years of his 37-year academic career carrying out both fundamental and applied research in the area of cybersecurity, machine learning and web intelligence. He is the co-inventor of three awarded patents in the field of network security and web intelligence and has published more than 270 peer-reviewed articles and supervised more than 180 research associates, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students during his career.

Since 2010, he has obtained more than $15 million to fund eight large multi-project research initiatives. He co-authored the book, Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems: Concepts and Techniques, which was published by Springer in October 2010. He served as the co-editor-in-chief of Computational Intelligence: An International Journal from 2007 to 2017.

He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He received UNB’s Merit Award and Research Scholar Award in 2003 and 2007, respectively.

Furthermore, he developed some technologies that have been adopted by high-tech companies and co-founded two startups, Sentrant Security and EyesOver Technologies in 2013 and 2015, respectively. He is the recipient of the 2017 Startup Canada Senior Entrepreneur Award.

Ghorbani has also served as a member of many boards and councils, including the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS) Professional Standards Advisory Council (PSAC) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada committee on Safety and Security, the Computer Science Society and Canadian Association of Computer Science.

To give back to Canada for all the opportunities he has had, Ghorbani and his wife established a scholarship at UNB for computer science or software engineering students from developing countries.

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