Sean White

“During my career I experienced many managers and management styles. Reporting to Sean over the past year has been such a refreshing, memorable delight. His integrity and humanity is evident in all he does and I was so fortunate to experience it, directly and indirectly, in so many occasions. I learned a great deal observing how he responds to and interacts with colleagues and I had so much fun brainstorming ideas with him. Sean always made me feel valued and heard - always supportive and caring. He is an outstanding human!”

“I have know Sean for many years in various roles in Nokia's forward looking technology organizations - especially Nokia Research Center. I have great respect for his decades long experience leading to deep knowledge in various technology areas ranging from wearables and sensors to botanical species identification and carbon nanotubes. He is a person I try to meet on a regular basis just to bounce ideas, hear what is new in artificial intelligence related fields in start-ups and for great philosophical discussions on the impact of innovations. Sean is truly innovative and creative as his broad interested reflect. I have experienced first hand that Sean is a great team leader, inspiring and at the same time somebody who delivers high quality research and can get the team to really excel. He built two great teams for two of the West coast labs in NRC. What I find rare and valuable quality is that he is as much home in a large company innovation organizations as in start-ups - as his history shows he has the right entrepreneurship attitude that is needed in technology start-ups. I can wholeheartedly recommend Sean for many different roles from researcher to entrepreneur but also to leadership positions in innovation organizations. He simply is a great person. ”

“Sean was an amazing boss, he is a true team leader. Aside from working for him on projects, I've learned so much from his leadership abilities. His patience with every single person in the office and his cheery mood always brightens the office. If anybody is in the market for a boss, I would highly recommend Sean!”

“Sean inspires excellence in his students and colleagues. As a TA for User Interface Design, he delivered engaging lectures, answered challenging in-depth questions with skill and mastery, and proposed challenging, creative assignments which were a success with the class.”

“I always admired the research Sean produced on the Electronic Field Guide project. He presented strong vision and leadership to his students, as well as put in a lot of implementation effort to bring this project to life.”