THE WiNTER LAB
WELCOME TO THE WiNTER LAB
The Winston Neuroimaging and Translational Epilepsy Research Laboratory
About the Lab
The Winston Neuroimaging and Translational Epilepsy Research Laboratory (WiNTER Lab) was founded to improve the understanding of the comorbidities of epilepsy and the diagnosis and surgical treatment of people with epilepsy primarily through neuroimaging techniques and translation into clinical practice. This has developed into employing more multimodal approaches, including robotic technology, neuropsychology, EEG and machine learning.
The lab moved to the Centre for Neuroscience Studies at Queen’s University in 2019 having previously been at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology in London, UK. We work closely with Kingston Health Sciences Centre District Epilepsy Centre and have active collaborations with the School of Computing at Queen’s University, as well as within and outside Canada.
LAB NEWS
Our Recent Highlights
POSITIONS AVAILABLE
Doctoral and Masters level research positions for a Connected Minds funded project: Development and Validation of a Technologically Advanced, Clinically-Effective, Socio-Ethically-Responsible Wearable EEG System for Personalized Epilepsy Management.
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CONGRATULATIONS!
The WiNTER lab congratulates our former 4th year undergraduate research project students! Danielle Joyce won the Research Poster Day Award for her project on Epilepsy and APOE4, while Kristen Kyone recently accepted an offer for University of Toronto Medical School!
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Convocation took place June 24th, 2025. Congrats to Danielle, Alice, Kristen, and Shaniya (not pictured) on completing your programs! Best of luck to you all!!
RECENT AWARDS & PUBLICATIONS
We are proud to announce funding of our Connected Minds Team grant proposal "Wearable EEG for Personalized Epilepsy Management". This joint project with co-PI Dr. Hossein Kassiri (Neuro-IC lab) aims to develop a wearable EEG device designed for clinical accuracy, long-term comfort, and ethical use in everyday environments.
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Congratulations to Theo Aliyianis on publishing the review he wrote during his MSc @QueensU_CNS on the effect of cognitive impairment on quality-of-life in people with epilepsy @QueensuDOM
WELCOME NEW LAB MEMBERS!
PhD. candidate Reza Jahantigh joins the Wearable EEG (Connected Minds) project, co-supervised by Dr. Winston in CNS and Dr. Ali Etemad in Electrical and Computer Eng. at Queen's.
In May, 2025, Dr. Amin Jalali joins as a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in AI and deep learning methods for neuroimaging.
PhD. candidate Amr Mustafa has studied EEG and completed a MSc in AI and data science and joins the First Seizure study.