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Exceptional Alumni

Notable Alumni

 

Graduated 2019

Zhilin Zhang
, Amazon

Graduated 2018

Hongwei Liang
, Microsoft

Graduated 2016

Hamidreza Mirzaei
, NVIDIA

Graduated 2015

Nataliya Shapovalova
, Amazon

Graduated 2014

Frederik Mallmann-Trenn
, King's College London

Arash Vahdat
, NVIDIA Research

Graduated 2013

Farnaz Agahian
, Google

Hengameh Mirzaalian Dastjerdi
, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Hamid Reza Vaezi Joze
, Microsoft

Graduated 2010

Rhonda Baldwin
, Apple

Ann Clifton
, Spotify

Gabor Melli 
, Sony Playstation

Alumni at top companies and universities

 

Graduated 2019

Omar Arafa
, Fortinet

Mohamed Hegazy
, Amazon

Graduated 2018

Yinfang Fu
, Microsoft

Alexander Gawronski
, Amazon

Pratik Gujjar
, Huawei

Yunduz Rakhmangulova
, Amazon

Maddy Soleimanian
, Google 

Beidou Wang
, Google

Graduated 2017

Snehasish Kumar
, Google

Karoon Rashedi Nia
, Oracle Labs

Fred Qin 
, Microsoft

NoorUllah Randhawa 
, Amazon 

Youjiao Sun
, Fortinet

Xinjing Wei
, Amazon

Graduated 2016

Zicun Cong
, Fortinet

Mehrnoosh Ebrahimipour
, Apple

Michael (Fan) Gao
, Google

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, University of Victoria

Shookoo Pourmehr
, Lyft

Haoyu Ren
, Samsung 

Yao Wu
, Twitter

Zhelun Wu 
, Fortinet

Graduated 2015

Te Bu
, Microsoft

Ken Herdy
, The MathWorks

Ron Kadhirdin
, Google

Ike (Shibin) Ma 
, Alexa Speech at Amazon

Ali Madooei
, The John Hopkins University

Wei Pu 
, Amazon

Kurt Routley
, Electronic Arts

Shuyang Sun
, Salesforce

Evgeny Vinnik
, Microsoft

Xiaoqian (Cathy) Yin
, Facebook

Guang-Tong Zhou
, Facebook

Graduated 2014

Mohsen Jamali Langroodi
, Fortinet

Jinling Li
, Amazon

Mingjing Zhang
, Google

Graduated 2013

Ouldooz Baghban Karimi
, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV

Sergey Blagodurov
, AMD

Parastoo Geranmayeh
, Google

Navid Imani
, Ebay

Piper Jackson
, Thompson Rivers University

Yang Jin
, SAP

Samaneh Moghaddam
, LinkedIn

Pariya Raoufi
, Activision

Iman Sarrafi
, Amazon

Andrea Tagliasacchi
, Google

Vivienne Wallace
, Electronic Arts

Jiahua (Jacob) Yu
, Google

Mingzhe Zhu
, Amazon

Graduated 2012

Usman Alim
, University of Calgary

Jillian Dicker
, Google

Da Huang
, Google

Mohsen Jamali
, LinkedIn

Hassan Khosravi
, The University of Queenland

Adrian Kwok
, Amazon Web Services

Majid Razmara
, MetaOptima Technology Inc.

Maryam Sadeghi
, MetaOptima Technology Inc.

Thomas Torsney-Weir
, Swansea University

Weilong Yang
, Google AI

Graduated 2011

Nima Aghdali
, Snapchat Inc.

Fereydoun Hormozdiari
, UC Davis

Bin Jiang
, Uber
Dissertation: Summarizing Certainty in Uncertain Data

Seyed Mohammad Mahdi Javadi
, British Columbia Institute of Technology

Sina Khakabimamaghani
, Evernote

Yaroslav Litus
, Google

Ferdinand Stefanus
, Intel Corporation

Zhengzheng Xing
, Amazon

Oliver van Kaick
, Carleton University

Deniz Yorukoglu
, Google

Bin Zhou
, Dept of Information Systems, University of Maryland
Dissertation: Keyword Search on Large-Scale Data: from Relational and Graph Data to OLAP Infrastructure

Graduated 2010

Ashgan Fararooy
, Google 

Amin Milani Fard
, New York Tech - Vancouver Campus

Andrei Missine
, Google

Reza Shahidi-Nejad
, Amazon

Graduated 2009

Bobby Chan
, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV

Brian Fraser
Senior Lecturer, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
Dissertation: .
Nominated for CAGS/UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award

Farahad Hormozdiari
, Harvard University

Ming Hua
, Facebook
Dissertation: Ranking Queries on Uncertain Data.

Yudong Liu
, Western Washington University

Kianoosh Mokhtarian
, Google

Flavia Moser
, SAP

Lilong Shi
, Samsung Semiconductor Inc

Evgeny Skvortsov
, Google
Dissertation: .

Yang Wang
, Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba
Dissertation: Learning Structured Models for Human Actions and Poses.

Graduated 2008

Arash Afrooze
, Hire the World

Omer Ishaq
, Dept of Computer Science & Engineering, Air University, Pakistan
Dissertation: .

Alireza H Khodabakhshi
, Genomic Institute for Novartis Research Foundation (GNF)

Yabo-Arber Xu
, Sun Yat-sen University
VP of Technology, Summba Inc.
Dissertation: .

Xiaohong (Sharon) Zhao
Research Scientist, Siemens Research, Princeton
Dissertation:

Graduated 2007

Cagri Aksay
Microsoft
Dissertation: .

John Boxall
, Mobify

Alireza Entezari
, Computer & Information Science & Engineering, University of Florida
Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida
Dissertation: .

Igor Faletski
, Mobify

Benjamin Fung
, School of Information Studies, McGill University
Dissertation: .

Yuelong Jiang
, Google

Byron Ju Gao
, Department of Computer Science, Texas State University
Dissertation: .

Emre Karakoc
, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Istanbul
Genome Sciences Department, University of Washington, Seattle
Dissertation: .

Ash Ragheb
, Google

Dan Wang
, Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Dissertation: .

Aaron Ward
, Medical Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario.
Winner of NSERC POstdoctoral Fellowship. Holds the Cancer Care Ontario Research Chair in Translational Imaging Science
Dissertation: .

Graduated 2006

Ming Hua
, Facebook

Hao Jiang
, Department of Computer Science, Boston College
Dissertation: .
Recipient of ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV's 2007 Governor-General's Gold Medal.

Cheng Lu
, Itel Corporation
Dissertation: .

Senqiang Zhou
, Google

Graduated 2005

Parmit Chilana
, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV

Alma Barranco-Mendoza
, Canadian Space Society, Infogenetica Solutions Ltd. 
Dissertation: .

Regan Mandryk
, Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan
Dissertation: Award: Governor General's Gold Medal Award winner

Alison Meynert
, Medical Research Council, Edinburgh
Dissertation: .

Zhong Zhang
, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Lethbridge
Dissertation:

Graduated 2004

Yuanzhu Peter Chen
, Department of Computer Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Dissertation: .

Florian Ciurea
, Emergent VR, San Francisco
Dissertation: .

Melanie Tory
, Tableau Research
Dissertation:

Manuel Zahariev
, s2x = SQL to Anything
Dissertation: Award: Dean of Graduate Studies Medal Award winner

Graduated 2003

Diana Cukierman
Senior Lecturer, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
Dissertation: A formalization of structured temporal objects and repetition.

Philip Fong
, Department of Computing Science, University of Calgary
Dissertation: .

David Gerhard
, Department of Computing Science, University of Regina
Dissertation: .

Adrian Moise
, Aequilibrium, Vancouver
Dissertation: .

Reza Naserasr
Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Mathematics and Statistics
Carleton University
Dissertation:

Jeffrey Orchard
, School of Computing Science, University of Waterloo
Dissertation:

Chenchen (Jessie) Zhu
, Microsoft, Seattle
Dissertation: .

Graduated 2002

Chris Neumann
, Vancouver & San Francisco Bay Area

Jian Pei
Professor, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
Dissertation: Pattern-growth methods for frequent pattern mining.

Cang Sam
, Microsoft

Andrew Walenstein
, Blackberry, Seattle
Dissertation: Cognitive support in software engineering tools: A distributed cognition framework.

Graduated 2001

Lyn Bartram
Associate Professor, School of Interactive Arts and Technology, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
Dissertation: Enhancing information visualization with motion.

Morten Irgens
, Oslo & Akershus University College of Applied Sciences
Dissertation: Heuristics characteristics: The satisfiability case.

Tim Lee
, UBC / BC Cancer Agency
BC Cancer Agency
Dissertation: Measuring border irregularity and shape of cutaneous melanocytic lesions.

Snezana Mitrovic-Minic
, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
Dissertation: The dynamic pickup and delivery problem with time windows.

Melissa O'Neill
, Department of Computing Science, Harvey Mudd College
Dissertation: .

Anthony Kum Hoe Tung
, Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore
Dissertation: Constrained clustering on spatial databases.