Darren Stefanyshyn received his PhD in 1996 from the University of Calgary and is currently an Associate Professor at the Human Performance Laboratory at the University of Calgary. His research focus is in the area of sport and locomotion biomechanics with a special interest in sport equipment such as footwear. He has been an ISB member since 1996. Darren has been a regular participant at ISB conferences, attending his first ISB meeting in 1993 in Paris as a student and serving as Secretary General of the organizing committee of the 1999 ISB conference in Calgary.

He has been intimately involved in the Footwear Biomechanics Technical Group of the ISB, as Chair of the 1999 Footwear Symposium in Canmore, serving as an Executive Board Member for four years and he is currently the Chairperson of the group.