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Alumni Achievements
The School of Computing Science is proud of all of our graduates! This is a list of some of our exceptional alumni who have followed their interests into extraordinary careers. If you find that any information here should be updated or if anyone is missing, please don't hesitate to contact us at: gradpgm @ cs.sfu.ca
Graduated in 2009
Brian Fraser
Nominated for CAGS/UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award
Dissertation: STEPS-FIRST: A systematic inference system with facts and rules stored as activation patterns.
Farahad Hormozdiari
PhD Student
UCLA
Ming Hua
Research Scientist
Facebook
Dissertation: Ranking Queries on Uncertain Data.
Evgeny Skvortsov
Google
Dissertation: Theoretical Analysis of Practical Heuristics for Satisfiability.
Yang Wang
NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation: Learning Structured Models for Human Actions and Poses.
Graduated in 2008
Omer Ishaq
Lecturer
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Air University, Pakistan
Dissertation: Algorithms for image analysis of corpus callosum degeneration for multiple sclerosis.
Yabo-Arber Xu
Assistant Professor
Sun Yat-sen Unviersity
VP of Technology, Summba Inc.
Dissertation: New models and techniques on privacy-preserving information sharing.
Xiaohong (Sharon) Zhao
Research Scientist
Siemens Research, Princeton
Dissertation: Haplotype Inferring via Galled-Tree Networks.
Graduated in 2007
Cagri Aksay
Microsoft
Dissertation: Non-coding RNA prediction and functional filtering using pentamer sequence motifs.
Assistant Professor
Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida
Dissertation: Optimal Sampling Lattices And Trivariate Box Splines.
Assistant Professor
Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University
Dissertation: Privacy-Preserving Data Publishing.
Byron Ju Gao
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, Texas State University - San Marcos
Dissertation: Hyper-rectangle-based Discriminative Data Generalization and Applications in Data Mining.
Emre Karakoc
Postdoctoral Fellow
Genome Sciences Department, University of Washington, Seattle
Dissertation: Computational studies on structure and functionality of biomolecular compounds.
Dan Wang
Assistant Professor
Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Dissertation: Continuous Data Collection In Wireless Sensor Networks.
Aaron Ward
Postdoctoral Fellow
Imaging Research Laboratories, Robarts Research Institute, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario
Dissertation: Computational intelligence supporting anatomical shape analysis and computer-aided diagnosis.
Graduated in 2006
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, Boston College
Dissertation: Successive Convexification for Consistent Labeling.
Recipient of SFU's 2007 Governor-General's Gold Medal.
Cheng Lu
Image Processing Scientist
Aptina Imaging, a division of Micron Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA.
Dissertation: Removing Shadows from Color Images.
Graduated in 2005
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
Trinity-Western University
Dissertation: Stochastic and heuristic modelling for analysis of the growth of pre-invasive lesions and for a multidisciplinary approach to early cancer diagnosis.
Regan Mandryk
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Computer Science
Dalhousie University
Dissertation: Modeling user emotion in interactive play environments: A fuzzy physiological approach.
Award: Governor General's Gold Medal Award winner
Alison Meynert
PhD Student
Cambridge University
Dissertation: Common Evidence Network: An Integrated Approach to Investigating Gene Relationships.
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Lethbridge
Dissertation: Applications of visibility space in polygon search problems.
Graduated in 2004
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Dissertation: Clustering mobile ad hoc networks using graph domination.
Florian Ciurea
Senior Engineer, Sony Electronics Inc.
San Jose, California
Dissertation: Colour constancy theories in the real world.
Assistant Professor, Department of Computing Science
University of Victoria
Dissertation: Combining 2D and 3D views for visualization of spatial data.
Manuel Zahariev
President , Amware Enterprises
Dissertation: Automatic expansion of acronyms.
Award: Dean of Graduate Studies Medal Award winner
Graduated in 2003
Lecturer, School of Computing Science
Simon Fraser University
Dissertation: A formalization of structured temporal objects and repetition.
Assistant Professor, Department of Computing Science
University of Regina
Dissertation: Proof linking: A modular verification architecture for mobile code system.
Assistant Professor, Department of Computing Science
University of Regina
Dissertation: Computationally measurable differences between speech and song.
Adrian Moise
Senior Project Manager, Blast Radius
Vancouver
Dissertation: Designing better user interfaces for radiology interpretations.
Reza Naserasr
Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Mathematics and Statistics
Carleton University
Dissertation: Homomorphisms and bounds.
Jeffrey Orchard
Assistant Professor, School of Computing Science
University of Waterloo
Dissertation: Simultaneous registration and activation detection: Overcoming activation-induced registration errors in functional MRI.
Chenchen (Jessie) Zhu
Systems Analyst
Microsoft Corporation
Dissertation: Parsimony with General Character Evolution.
Graduated in 2002
Assistant Professor, School of Computing Science
Simon Fraser University
Dissertation: Pattern-growth methods for frequent pattern mining.
Andrew Walenstein
Research Scientist
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Dissertation: Cognitive support in software engineering tools: A distributed cognition framework.
Graduated in 2001
Assistant Professor, School of Interactive Arts and Technology
Simon Fraser University
Dissertation: Enhancing information visualization with motion.
President and Chief Technical Officer, Acetum Corporation
Dissertation: Heuristics characteristics: The satisfiability case.
Tim Lee
Senior Scientist, BC Cancer Research Centre
BC Cancer Agency
Dissertation: Measuring border irregularity and shape of cutaneous melanocytic lesions.
Snezana Mitrovic-Minic
Research Associate and Lecturer, Department of Mathematics
Simon Fraser University
Dissertation: The dynamic pickup and delivery problem with time windows.
Associate Professor, Department of Computing Science
Harvey Mudd University
Dissertation: Version stamps for functional arrays and determinacy checking: Two applications of ordered lists for advanced programming languages.
Assistant Professor, Department of Computing Science
National University of Singapore
Dissertation: Constrained clustering on spatial databases.
Graduated in 2000
Greg Baker
Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science
Simon Fraser University
Brad Bart
Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science
Simon Fraser University
Vlad Constantin Cardei
Senior Research Scientist, NextEngine Inc.
Santa Monica, California
Dissertation: A neural network approach to colour constancy.
David Cowperthwaite
Intel Corp.
Portland, Oregon
Dissertation: Occlusion resolution operators for 3D detail-in-context.
Faculty, Department of Computing Science
Capilano College
Dissertation: On the turnpike problem.
Stephen Rochefort
Associate Dean , Faculty of Management
Royal Roads University
Dissertation: Logic programming applications in education environments.
Yinlong Sun
Assistant Professor, Department of Computing Science
Purdue University
Dissertation: A spectrum-based framework of realistic image synthesis.
Graduated in 1999
Assistant Professor, Computing Science Department
University of Arizona
Dissertation: Practical colour constancy.
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of Calgary
Dissertation: A framework for elastic presentation space.
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Lethbridge
Dissertation: Satisfiability and self-duality of monotone Boolean functions.
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of Regina
Dissertation: A new paradigm for exploration in computer-aided visualization.
Visualization Researcher, Advanced Research and Technology (ART) Labs
Banff Centre
Dissertation: An environment for the simulation of biological models.
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of Alberta
Dissertation: Resource and knowledge discovery from the internet and multimedia repositories.
Graduated in 1998
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of Victoria
Dissertation: A cognitive framework for describing and evaluating software exploration tools.
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
City College of New York
Dissertation: Foveate wavelet transform and its applications in digital video.
Graduated in 1997
Caroline Barriere
Research Officer, NRC Institute for Information Technology
University of Quebec
Dissertation: From a children's first dictionary to a lexical knowledge base of conceptual graphs.
Adam Wood-Gaines
Software Engineer, Pixar Animation Studios Production Company
Dissertation: Modelling expressive movement of musicians.
Philip Ray Peterson
Principal Engineer, Research and Development
Lucasfilm Animation
Dissertation: A genetic engineering approach to texture synthesis.
Graduated in 1995
Senior Instructor, Department of Computer Science
The University of British Columbia
Dissertation: A study of convex covers in two or more dimensions.
Professor, School of Computing Sciences
University of East Anglia
Dissertation: Coefficient color constancy.
Recipient, Philip Leverhulme Prize, Leverhulme Trust, 2003-2006;
Recipient, Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, 2008-2012.
Assistant Professor
Simon Fraser University
Dissertation: Definability equals recognisability for partial k-trees.
Management Consultant,
Internationally recognized author of best-selling books on large-scale Agile, Scrum and Lean Product Development
Dissertation: Learning from knowledge systems.
Frank Tong
Assistant Director, E-Business Technology Institute,
University of Hong Kong
Dissertation: Reciprocal-Wedge Transform: A Space-variant Image Representation.
Graduated in 1994
Bruce Bauslaugh
, C.E.O. of Lyrnx Learning Inc.
Dissertation: Homomorphisms of infinite directed graphs
Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science
Simon Fraser University
Dissertation: Formalizing the temporal domain with hierarchical structures of time units
Joerg Ueberla
General Partner , Wellington Partners Venture Capital GmbH
Dissertation: Analyzing and improving statistical language models for speech recognition. (1994)
Graduated in 1993
Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of Regina
Dissertation: Specification of inductive-inference problems for machine discovery.
Associate Professor, School of Computer Science
Simon Fraser University
Dissertation: An empirical Study of random SAT.
Graduated in 1992
Daryl Harms
Software Development Consultant
Calgary, Alberta
Dissertation: A symbolic algebra environment for research in network reliability.
, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Victoria
Dissertation: Tournament-like oriented graphs.
Graduated in 1991
Professor, Faculty of Engineering
University of Regina
Dissertation: Inferential modelling technique for analysis and interpretation of expertise.
Graduated in 1990
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Dissertation: Enhancing concurrency and availability for database systems.
Graduated in 1989
Professor and Chair, Department of Physics and Computer Science
Wilfrid Laurier University
Dissertation: Fault-tolerance in multi-computer networks.
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Victoria
Dissertation: The complexity of generalized colourings
Graduated in 1988
Associate Professor, Computer Science and Information Systems Department
Director, Center for E-Commerce Infrastructure Development
The University of Hong Kong
Dissertation: A study of the availability and serializability in a distributed database system.