THE WiNTER LAB
WELCOME TO THE WiNTER LAB
The Winston Neuroimaging and Translational Epilepsy Research Laboratory
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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
Updated for May, 2026!
Postdoctoral Fellowship available to work on a multicentre CIHR-funded project on multimodal prediction of seizure recurrence after unprovoked first seizure to guide clinical decision-making. Developing a predictive machine learning model of seizure recurrence risk using brain connectivity data derived from MRI, EEG and neuropsychological data: View Posting
We are seeking a motivated Master’s student with the appropriate technical background to work on Identifiability of EEG data (co-supervision with Prof Ali Etemad, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen’s University) for a Connected Minds funded project: ​View Posting​
Connected Minds EEG device project
Connected Minds official release of Team Grant 2025 highlight video featuring research by Dr. Gavin Winston (Queen's University) and Dr. Hossein Kassiri (York University).
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Thank you to Connected Minds and the Canada First Research Excellence Fund for funding the wearable EEG device project.
RECENT LAB NEWS
MSc students successfully defend their thesis projects!
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Matthew Suppa Modrusan passed his defense on June 16, 2026. His MSc thesis is entitled: "Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques for Presurgical Assessment: Evaluation at a District Epilepsy Centre"
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Aikam Rai passed her defense on June 1st, 2026, entitled: "Investigating the Role of Arterial Spin Labelling in Presurgical Evaluation of Epilepsy"
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Congratulations to Matthew and Aikam!!
WELCOME NEW LAB MEMBERS!
Postdoctoral Fellow Prithila Angkan joins the WiNTER lab, where she works on wearable EEG representation learning, co-supervised by Dr. Ali Etemad.
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Prithila joins us after completing a PhD in the Queen's U school of computing supervised by Dr. Ali Etemad and Dr. Paul Hungler. Her PhD thesis was entiteld "Driver Cognitive Load and Affect Classification with EEG"