Dr. Maryam Davoudpour received the MSc and PhD degrees from the Moscow State Technical University of Bauman in Information Technology and Control Complex Systems. She also completed a NSERC post-doctoral fellowship. She is a member of the DMZ (Digital Media Zone) at Toronto Metropolitan University, ex-Ryerson University of Canada. Dr. Davoupour joined Humber Polytechnic in 2016. She has extensive industrial and academic experience, trained and supervised many students and has been involved in various successful R&D projects. Dr. Davoudpour is the recipient of the Research Excellence award of Humber College President’s Award 2020.
Dr. Davoudpour’s research interests are in the areas of Smart Wearable, Bio-Sensors, Nonlinear Modeling, Knowledge-Based Expert Systems, Petri Nets, Modeling Context-Aware Systems, and Internet of Things. She is an active reviewer of various IEEE publications and conferences.
Dr. Davoudpour is currently the Chair of the WIE IEEE Canada(R7), and the past Chair of IEEE Toronto Section (2022-2025). In the past, she has served as the Vice Chair (2020-2022) and Secretary (2018-2020) of the IEEE Toronto Section. She was also the chair of various chapters including the IEEE Instrumentation, Measurement, Robotics and Automation chapter in Toronto since 2012.
Dr. Davoudpour was selected as an Honorable Mention for the 2018 WIE Inspiring Member of the Year Award by the IEEE Women in Engineering Committee (WIEC), for her inspirational leadership and outstanding contributions to the IEEE WIE and IEEE communities.
The WIEC also selected the IEEE Toronto WIE Affinity Group as the recipient of an Honorable Mention for 2018, 2019, and 2021 WIE Affinity Group of the Year Award, during the time that she was a Chair.