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
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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.