1. Ed Sykes Short Bio
Ed Sykes was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He received an Honours B.Sc.
(1992) in Mathematics and Computer Science (Summa Cum Laude) from
McMaster University, the M.Sc. (2005) in Computer Science from McMaster
University and in July 2012 defended his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Guelph
University. He has the B.Ed. (1993) from the University of Western Ontario, the
M.Ed. (1998) and the Ph.D. (2006) in Education (Cognition and Learning) from
Brock University.
Ed Sykes received the Best Ph.D. IASTED 2003 Presentation Award for his
research in “Designing, developing, and evaluating the Java Intelligent Tutoring
System.” Ed has conducted applied research in Human Computer Interaction
(HCI) and machine learning algorithms. Ed is also forging ahead in mobile
computing research specifically in the areas of context-aware and cloud-
integrated mobile computing. Ed's PhD in Computer Science thesis entitled
"Determining when to Interact: The Interaction Algorithm" focused on a machine
learning algorithm (ANFIS) and HCI. Ed was co-lead in architecting a new degree
for Sheridan College: Bachelor of Applied Computer Science (Mobile Computing)
starting September 2014 for which he was coordinator from 2014-2015. Please
click here if you are interested in this program.
Dr. Sykes was an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Computer Science in the
Department of Computing and Software at McMaster University and nearly 20
years of teaching and research experience at Sheridan. He has also taught
undergraduate and graduate-level courses at McMaster University and Brock
University.
Ed is the recipient of the first SHARCNET College Research Chair appointment.
SHARCNET is the largest High Performance Computing (HPC) consortium in
Ontario and the largest in Canada by number of partners, and second largest by
number of users and range of disciplines supported – over 150 research areas,
4,000+ user accounts, and 1,000 research groups. SHARCNET has had a
significant impact on teaching, learning, and Applied Research activities at
Sheridan and its other 17 member institutions. For more information on
SHARCNET please visit: www.sharcnet.ca
To date, Ed has been awarded 4 NSERC Engage grants (each valued at $25,000)
and 1 NSERC Applied Research and Development grant ($225,000 over 3 years)
all in the field of Mobile Computing research.