David Flatla (BA\, BSc\, MSc) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Saskatchewan under the supervision of Dr. Carl Gutwin. His research focusses on the field of accessibility\, particularly on how to help individuals with colour vision deficiency by precisely modelling how each individual perceives colour. He has received NSERC PGS and CGS funding for his graduate work\, and has one ACM CHI best paper nomination and one ACM ASSETS best paper award. David has taught sessionally three times\, all at the University of Saskatchewan.
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Refreshments will be served before the talk.