Meet our Graduate Students.

We're home to a vibrant community of graduate students. Find out what they're researching, why they chose SFU, and how they've gotten involved with the community.

Postdoctoral Fellow Profile: Neethu Parvathy

Neethu is a postdoctoral fellow at the Beedie School of Business. She is an ethnographer who specializes in Economic Sociology, Gender, and Indigenous Studies. Learn More
Student Profile: Brett Gaylor

Brett is a doctoral student in the School of Interactive Art & Technology and his research looks at how documentarians can use artificial intelligence within their work to help others build critical literacy around artificial intelligence. (Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship) Learn More
Student Profile: Troy Boucher

Troy Boucher is a doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology program. He is in the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Lab (ADDL) conducting research in autism and intellectual disability across the lifespan.(Vanier scholarship, Robert Russell Family First Nations Graduate Scholarship, Dean’s Graduate Fellowship, BC Graduate Scholarship, and SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship) Learn More
Student Profile: Ali Izadi

Ali is a doctoral student in Computing Sciences seeking to improve the accuracy and trustworthiness of machine learning methods for using AI in precision medicine Learn More
Student Profile: Amirhossein Daneshpajouh

Amirhossein is a doctoral student in Computing Sciences researching power of computers to help fight diseases more effectively. Learn More
Student Profile: Em Lim

Em is a doctoral student in biology and is focused on the role of marine animal in recycling nutrients. [NSERC CGS-D (2023), NSERC CGS-M (2020), and BC Graduate Scholarship (2020)] Learn More
Student Profile: Dana Graham Lai

Dana Graham Lai is a PhD student in the Department of English using interdisciplinary methods of literary criticism applied to eighteenth and nineteenth-century Scottish women’s writing. (SSHRC-CGS doctoral award, David and Mary Macaree Graduate Fellowship) Learn More
Student Profile: Caitlin Courchesne

Caitlin Courchesne is a doctoral student in SFU’s Clinical Psychology researching mental health interventions for adults with persisting post-concussion symptoms. (SSHRC doctoral fellowship; Kruger Products Bicultural entrance fellowship, BC graduate scholarship, and Dean's graduate fellowship) Learn More
Student Profile: Michael Price

Michael is a Biology Doctoral student in the Faculty of Science studying the change in numbers and diversity of wild salmon in British Columbia over the last century by reading the individual and collective stories bound within the scales of fish extracted from fisheries. (Weston Family Scholarship) Learn More
Student Profile: Ghazal Majidi

Ghazal is an MFA student Interdisciplinary Arts working with virtual and augmented reality to reflect on some personal and existential subject matters. (Graduate fellowship award and the Research and Travel award) Learn More