Early Career Researcher Award

Fateme Rajabiyazdi

2025 Early Career Researcher Award

Dr. Fateme Rajabiyazdi is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University and an Affiliate Investigator at the Bruyère Research Institute. From July 2025, she will start her new position as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary. In 2023, she was awarded the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society Early Career Researcher Award. Before joining Carleton, she was a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University, where she received the Quebec Postdoctoral Scholarship in Health Award (FRQS). She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Calgary in 2018. Her research is at the intersection of information visualization, health and human-computer interaction. In particular, her research aims to develop innovative data visualization to empower patients to self-manage their care, establish data-driven communication with their caregivers and healthcare providers, and integrate these visualizations into the healthcare system.