Education B.Sc. (High Honours) in Computational Science, University of Saskatchewan M.Sc. in Computational Science, University of Saskatchewan Ph.D. in Computing Science, Simon Fraser University Experience Laboratory for Computational Discovery (LCD), Faculty of Science, University of Regina: Director Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainable Communities (IEESC), University of Regina: Research Scientist The Collaborative Centre for Justice and Safety (CCJS), University of Regina: Regular Member Associations: ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association / Association pur l'Intelligence Artificielle au Canada (CAIAC) Fellow Fellow Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society IEEE Computer Society Research Interests: Data Mining Computer Animation Computer Games Machine Learning Journals: Member, Editorial Board, Computational Intelligence , Blackwells. Member, Editorial Board, Knowledge and Information Systems . Springer. Conferences and Workshops: Canadian Artificial Intelligence Conference (AI2014) Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 6-9, 2014. program committee member Canadian Artificial Intelligence Conference (AI2013) Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, May 28-31, 2013. program committee member local arrangements chair 15th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS-2012) Lyon, France, October 29-31, 2012, program committee member 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012), Maui, Hawaii, October 29-November 2, 2012. program committee member Tenth International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA2011) Porto, Portugal, October 29-31, 2011. Program Committee Member 14th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS-2011) Espoo, Finland, October 5-7, 2011, program committee member International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2011) Warsaw, Poland, September 14-17, 2011. program committee member Canadian Artificial Intelligence Conference (AI2011) St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, May 25-27, 2011. program committee member Ninth International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA2010) Tucson, Arizona, May 19-21, 2010. Senior Program Committee Member Canadian Artificial Intelligence Conference (AI2010) Ottawa, May-June, 2010. Discovery Science (DS2009) / Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT2009) Portugal, October 25-27, 2009. tutorial presenter First International Workshop on Interesting Knowledge Mining (IKM2009) Seoul, Korea, August 25-27, 2009. program committee member held in conjunction with NCM2009 Mining Interesting Knowledge (MIK2009) Tainan City, Taiwan, June 24-27, 2009. program committee member