Namya Mehan is a summer student at Smart & Biggar’s Ottawa office.
She is a JD candidate at the University of Western Ontario and holds a degree in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering from McMaster University.
Namya is a student member of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC), the Ontario Bar Association, the Canadian Bar Association, STEP Canada, and the Canada Technology Law Association.
Prior to her legal studies, Namya was a Patent Examiner in training at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office, gaining experience applying Canadian IP law and international treaty standards while learning to review and analyze patent applications in electrical engineering, biotechnology and software.
Namya is excited to join Smart & Biggar because the firm’s exclusive focus on intellectual property offers meaningful exposure across a wide range of IP matters and an excellent opportunity to strengthen her practical legal skills while learning from leading practitioners in the field.
Qualifications
- Speaking
- Industry Involvement
- In the Media
- Associating Radiomic Features with Cancer Type: A study using PET-CT Images from a Public Dataset.(Hamilton Health Sciences Research Symposium 2023)
- The SureStride: An Intermediate Mobility Device for Seniors in Nursing Homes, IEEE Xplore, IEEE Smart Mobility (IEEESM 2024)
- Evaluation of Language Models and RAG Performance in Answering Radiation Oncology Queries. (Department of Oncology 20th Annual Student Research Day 2025
Memberships
- Student member, Intellectual Property Institute of Canada
- Student member, Ontario Bar Association/Canada Bar Association
- Student member, STEP Canada
- Student member, Canada Technology Law Association
Publications
- Development and evaluation of large-language models (LLMs) for oncology: A scoping review https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000980
- The SureStride: An Intermediate Mobility Solution for Seniors https://doi.org/10.1109/SM63044.2024.10733430
- Two Simulink Models with Requirements for a Simple Controller of a Pacemaker Device, https://www.academia.edu/download/100137400/QZcD.pdf