Tirth came to UHN as a summer student in the Radiation Medicine Program in 2015, while finishing his bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience and Computer Science at the University of Toronto. His summer project, a decision support system for adaptive radiotherapy, eventually ballooned into a much larger software platform for clinical automation and research, known as MIRA.

Tirth now leads a team of developers working on MIRA, which has since become a key clinical tool and has been instrumental in dozens of research publications. Tirth has presented his work on MIRA at conferences around the world and was recognized with the RMP Exceptional Contribution to Research award.

In his now limited spare time, owing to the birth of his newborn daughter, Tirth enjoys camping and softball.

Gregory Bootsma graduated from the University of Waterloo with a B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc. from the Department of Engineering, where he focused on algorithm design, computer vision, and 3D reconstruction. Upon graduation Gregory joined the Image Guided Therapeutics (IGTx) lab working with Dr. David Jaffray and Dr. Jeff Siewerdsen developing both hardware and software for radiation and surgical guidance systems. Gregory went on to do a Ph.D. in the Department of Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Dr. Jaffray. The focus of his thesis was reducing scatter in Cone-beam CT through the use of physics and computational methods to improve image quality. Gregory continues to work to improve X-ray imaging using Monte Carlo techniques to model and generate new X-ray source design, improve image quality, and facilitate overall imaging system design.

Daniel Garcia graduated from University of Guelph in 2021 with a Bachelor of Computing. Daniel started working with UHN in early 2022 as a Technical Analyst. He works as a developer and as a QA Automation analyst in Techna with the Data Science and Analytics team. Projects that Daniel has been involved in include REACH, MyUHN and more recently CoBe.

Srimathi Jayasimman graduated from SRM Institute of Science and Technology with a Masters of Technology specialized in Computer Science and Engineering in the year of 2014. I have published ‘Peer to Peer Resource Detection’ Journal in International Journal of Application or Innovation in Engineering & Management (IJAIEM). I am an ISTQB Certified Software Test Engineer. I have QA Automation experience in Java using Selenium WebDriver and TestNG Framework for both Web and Mobile applications. Always been innovative and creating ideas for STLC (Software Testing Life Cycle) phases.

Currently working as a Technical Analyst in Techna on Research Data Storage (RDS) project. Responsible for creating a modern technology supporting QA Automation framework using Cypress technology.

Pietro graduated from Ryerson University in 2018 with a BSc in Computer Science. He started his career as a programming teacher but quickly moved into the renewable energy industry. There he worked on solar monitoring and data analysis tools.

Pietro began his career at UHN in 2022 when he joined the team at Techna Institute.

Kevin Wang is a Scientific Associate and Technical Lead on software application development at Techna and UHN. He obtained his BSc and a MESc degree in Mechanical Engineering. He then worked in industry developing high performance image registration and image guided surgery applications for several leading hospitals and research institutes. Later he obtained his PhD in medical biophysics from the University of Western Ontario. He started to work with Dr. David Jaffray at Radiation Medicine Program at UHN in 2010 and worked on several key projects such as SlicerRT and AQUA. AQUA was later commericalized and acquired by Elekta. He joined Techna in 2015 and his primary focus will be on software platform for bioinformatics.

Mickey Ng graduated from University of Toronto with a B. Sc. Specialist in Computer Science and Economics. He has spent many years developing software for mobile devices and framework for cross platform mobile development. Mickey has developed and contributed to awards winning applications for J2ME, Blackberries, iPhone and Android platforms.

At Epson Canada, Mickey was a Java specialist for the Point of Sale printer JavaPOS ADK. He became affiliated with Techna in September 2013 and will contribute to the Cancer Informatics team.

Anton is a full stack developer on the Data Science project, tackling every aspect of the project from front end to back end to testing to deployment.

Anton joined Techna in 2015 after six years working for various companies across a variety of applications.

When not at work coding, Anton spends his free time… coding, with significant contributions to open source projects such as Ubuntu.

Benjamin Grant received his MSc in Medical Biophysics from the University of Toronto where he studied protein structure and function in cancer. Before joining CDI, Ben managed a large clinical research program at Princess Margaret which focused on improving patient outcomes through technological innovations, including harnessing real-world big data, and machine learning/AI.

Ben joined CDI in January 2023 as Manager of the Data Science team. At CDI, Ben leads a team of developers, researchers, and analysts to create innovative IT solutions for real-world problems at Princess Margaret. His current projects include the clinical trial matching tool PMATCH and enabling/streamlining machine learning pipelines for clinical deployment.