Term
- May 1, 2024 to April 30, 2026
Nicholas Pellegrino is a doctoral candidate and sessional lecturer in Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo in Canada. He is supervised by Prof. Paul Fieguth and associated with the Vision and Image Processing (VIP) Lab and the Statistical Image Processing (SIP) Lab. His main research focus is on machine vision, specifically object recognition.
Nicholas's research supports the BIOSCAN program, associated with the International Barcode of Life project. The overall goal is to enable a far more extensive and detailed understanding of global biodiversity and the interactions between species and ecosystems by analyzing insects using novel AI systems. From his master's (also in Systems Design Engineering), Nicholas was awarded the Alumni Gold Medal, which recognizes the top graduating master’s student across the whole university for their academic achievement.
Within the University of Waterloo, other committees and organizations Nicholas supports include the Senate (as a Graduate Student Representative), Graduate & Research Council (as the Graduate Student Representative from Engineering), Graduate Student Relations Committee (as a Special Resource), the Systems Design Engineering Departmental Graduate Student Association (as VP Operations), and the Building & Properties Committee. Nicholas previously was on the university-level Graduate Student Association (as the Systems Design Engineering Councillor), and the Systems Design Engineering Department Chair Nominating Committee.