Dr. Martin Ester, is the Digital Health Hub Co-Lead for the Point of Care Health Technologies Team. Dr. Ester received a PhD in Computer Science from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in 1989 with a thesis on knowledge-based systems and logic programming. He has been working for Swissair developing expert systems before he joined University of Munich as an Assistant Professor in 1993. Since November 2001, he has been an Associate Professor, now Full Professor at the School of Computing Science of Simon Fraser University, where he co-directs the Database and Data mining research lab. From May 2010 to April 2015, he has served as the School Director. Dr. Ester has published extensively in the top conferences and journals of his field such as ACM SIGKDD, WWW, ICDM and ACM RecSys. According to Google Scholar, his publications have received more than 23'000 citations, and his h-index is 53. He received the KDD 2014 Test of Time Award for his paper on DBSCAN. Martin Ester’s current research interests include social network analysis, recommender systems, biological network analysis and data mining for personalized medicine. Dr. Ester is very interested in the translation of his research results into practical applications and has had many collaborations with partners in industry, science, and government.

AGE-WELL Funded Projects

• Big Data Analysis Algorithm for the Analysis of Lifestyle Factors on the Aging Process (6.6-CAT) (completed)
• Precision mental health: A stakeholder-informed, Big Data approach to psychological wellbeing (AWCRP-2020-03)
• Point of Care Health Technologies (PCHT)

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