Co-founder and CTO

Simon is a Co-founder and CTO of Trax, designing the software architecture and leading the implementation of a cloud-based building code and standards platform. Prior, Simon worked at Autodesk for 10 years as a Principal Research Scientist doing Simulation, Graphics, Human Computer Interaction, and Information Visualization research. Simon’s professional experience also include working in Thomson Reuters on Westlaw, a search engine for lawyers, as well as an internship at Adobe Creative Technology Lab.

Simon received a Bachelor of Computer Science in 2006 from the University of Michigan and M.Sc. in Computer Science (with a concentration in Computer Graphics) from the University of Toronto in 2010. Simon has co-authored more than 35 research papers in various journals and conferences, and holds 5 patents.

Currently, Simon also holds an elected position on the board of directors of the Toronto Zen Centre.