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Advancing Peer Publishing
The Team
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Collective experience in both software development and healthcare.
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Steve Cohen, CEO and Founder
Steve has over 20 years experience as a software developer/designer/entrepreneur and is currently deploying data driven EE-Collaborate enterprise healthcare communities, which focus on contagious diseases and wound care. The EE-Collaborate communities focus on personalization, authentication and validation. Technologies include: .AWS ML, Docker, Python, Google Kubernetes, .NET, JEE, Angular JS, LAMP, CSS3, HTML5, Responsive Web, jQuery, and Bootstrap.


As the founder of Electric Effect, Steve has personally envisioned and managed the development and deployment of each product, including EE-Collaborate Community platform, and is currently developing innovative peer publishing ML/AI concepts through working partnerships with NRC-IRAP, Mitacs, CANARIE/DAIR Cloud, MaRSDD, AWS Activate, University of Windsor, and Springer Nature.

​During his 20+ years managing enterprise portal application analysis, development, deployment and maintenance, he has worked with a range of companies such as Best Life Rewarded, Wounds Canada, Welsh Wound Initiative, the YellowPages Group (Yellow Media), Government of Ontario (Ministry of Health), Cogeco Cable, Quebecor, and Bell ActiMedia.


Steve is an avid runner, road cyclist, mountain biker, erg rower, swimmer, weightlifter, Trappist beer enthusiast and fisherman, has been married for over 30 years, and has 3 very active adult children who all work out with him. And he has two Bengal cast, Ginger and Pepper, who are essentially mooches for body heat at night.
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Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Stevco
or LinkedIn profile: ​https://www.linkedin.com/in/electriceffect/ 

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Douglas Queen, BSc, MBA, PhD  ​
President

​Dr. Queen is an integral member of the Electric Effect Management team. Providing a unique academic and business background in HealthCare, Douglas provides key strategic business advisement and product refinement for Electric Effect. He is also responsible for developing global marketing & sales.

With over 25 years of expertise Dr. Queen, received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering studying Wound Care Dressings in 1986 from University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, and also earned his MBA from Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK in 1996. Douglas also spent 13 years working for ConvaTec both in Research and Development & in Sales and Marketing in North America & Europe.

In addition to his consultancy work, Dr. Queen is an Honorary Research Fellow of Cardiff University and throughout his research career. Dr. Queen has worked with leading biomaterial scientists and clinicians around the world.


Zuhua Luo, PhD
VP of IT, and Lead Application Architect and Developer

Zuhua is the senior analyst and lead application developer for Electric Effect. As the application development manager for Electric Effect, Zuhua directs the core application design and architecture for EE-Collaborate Community Portal, SMART Site, SMART HUB, and SMART Cloud, leading the development team in Canada. He leads all new product R&D, including machine learning processes.

Zuhua is an IT professional specializing in software application solution architecture, development,  design, analysis, implementation and deployment as well as project management. Zuhua is a Java/J2EE/JEE guru, and has extensive working experience in multi-tier enterprise system design and development by using Java/J2EE/JEE/Spring/Seam/Hibernate frameworks and technologies under Unix and Windows environment.

Zuhua is skilled with various modeling/IDE tools, application servers, databases, design patterns and frameworks, including Eclipse, RUP, Jbuilder, RAD, Websphere AS, JBoss AS, Weblogic AS, Borland AS, Apache Web server, Oracle DB, MySQL, NoSQL. He is also trained in database design and development, data modeling, PL/SQL, SQL*Plus, SQL Loader, Data Migration, ETL, Replication and Data Warehouse.

To complement his 16 years experience in application development, Zuhua has a PhD in Applied Mathematics and Computing from the University of Leicester, England, Sun Certified Enterprise Architect (SCEA), Business Component Developer (SCBCD) and Java Programmer (SCJP), Oracle Certified Professional (OCP DBA for 9i), and is a Software Engineering Project Management Certified Professional.

Amangel Bhullar, PhD Student, School of Computer Science, University of Windsor
Machine Learning Engineer
Amangel works with the Electric Effect team and partners developing ML/AI algorithms for our ApertumX platform, with a focus on our SMART Cloud product and the associated experimental research and development. Her work involves analyzing and experimenting with various proprietary models combined with a range of ML/AI clustering models (k-means, k-mode, DBSCAN, etc.) to ultimately develop a hybrid clustering model for ur ApertumX platform.

Amangel is a recipient of the NRC-IRAP youth award in partnership with Electric Effect and is now pursuing her PhD at the University of Windsor, focusing on NLP and neural networks, while continuing her ML/AI R&D work with the Electric Effect team. Her focus on experimental development has helped advance our ML/AI product development, and as a valued team member Amangel will continue to be supported by Electric Effect as she continues with her academic pursuits.


Abdulrauf Gidado, PhD Student, School of Computer Science, University of Windsor
Experimental Research Internship at Electric Effect

Abdulrauf is an experienced and result driven software engineer and machine learning expert with over six years impressive background in developing and managing companies’ mission critical software worth multi-million dollars, focusing on developing and implementing technology driven and innovative ideas as solutions to current global challenges.

​Abdulrauf is responsible for analyzing Electric Effect's ML/AI processes and the associated experimental R&D, developing the proprietary 
algorithms based on our data modelling and unique data requirement sets. He will be working with the Electric Effect team, data partner (Springer Nature), and the AWS Activate team to perform his experimental analysis, R&D, and resulting app development under the supervision of Dr. Christine Ezeife, Professor  School of Computer Science, University of Windsor.
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