Personal
I'm married to Sharon. Together we have three kids, two dental practices and one dental lab.
Researcher
In 2025, I successfully defended my Master's thesis, "An Alternative Approach to Alexithymia Assessment: Natural Language Processing of Open-Ended Responses using BERT", supervised by Dr. James D.A. Parker, through Trent University's Department of Applied Modelling and Quantitative Methods.
The main finding is that large-language models can quantify emotion in text and predict alexithymia patterns. The results of this study are still pre-publication, contact me for a copy once available.
Co-owner
I co-founded Longworth Dental Bowmanville (2011), expanded to Courtice (2021), and added our Lab (2021).
Scientist-practitioner
My work is frequently multidisciplinary. I like applied sciences and understanding how things work and how people work together. I tend to tackle the numbers side of complex problems.
I previously taught mathematics in English and French. I hold teaching certificates in Labrador, Quebec, and Ontario. I completed a 5-year double-bachelor's degree at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, in mathematics (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science) and high school mathematics education (Department of Educational Sciences).
Speaker
| Year | Type | Title | Conference | Date | Abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12-Minute Talk | "Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for Psychological Assessment: Lessons from Research on Alexithymia and Emotional Intelligence" | Canadian Psychological Association Annual National Convention (St. John's) | June 12-14 | View Abstract |
| 2025 | Poster | "No Words for Feelings: Developing Large Language Model Representations of Alexithymia" | Canadian Psychological Association Annual National Convention (St. John's) | June 12-14 | View Abstract |
| 2025 | 75-Minute Talk | "Hold on to Your People: A Resource for Office Managers, Principal Dentists and Dental Spouses" | Ontario Dental Association Annual Spring Meeting (Toronto) | May 8-10 | View Abstract |
| 2024 | Poster | "Large-Language Model-based Classification for Emotional and Social Intelligence" | Canadian Psychological Association Annual National Convention (Ottawa) | June 21-23 | View Abstract |