Soyean currently works as the Product Lead at the Centre for Infectious Disease Genomics and One Health (“CIDGOH”) at Simon Fraser University. CIDGOH focuses on infectious disease management through a One Health Lens; a multi-sectoral approach involving human and animal health leveraging advanced computational approaches and innovative knowledge engineering. As a data analytics leader, Soyean has over 18 years of experience working in multiple domains, including consulting, private utility, public health, and government and non-profit organizations. Soyean is a certified Cloud professional and an accredited statistician (P.Stat.). Most recently, Soyean worked as the Director of Digital Products at Providence Health Care where her team focused on leveraging technology solutions to support hospital operations in addition to supporting Canada’s Digital Technology Supercluster to develop novel and innovative digital health applications.

Soyean works as a member of the United Nations Privacy Enhancing Technology Lab (“the U.N PET Lab”) advocating for sound data stewardship, secure data sharing and the use of emerging privacy-enhancing technologies. Soyean also served as Chair of the Accreditation Committee at the Statistical Society of Canada (“SSC”) as well as the United Nations Global Platform – the UN’s initiative to increase big data capacity for member state’s national statistical systems.