Prospective Students
I am always seeking to recruit new talents to integrate my research group. If you are a highly motivated, driven, curious graduate or post-graduate student who want to work with me, keep reading. I do receive a ridiculously high number of requests, so only the most serious applicants will get an answer from me. What do I mean by that? If you contact me, and your email fails at demonstrating that you are genuinely interested in my research and supervision, as described below, you will not get an answer.
First of all, please do not send me a generic, unpersonalized email that you copy paste and batch send to a any professor, in any research area. I am not interested in responding to students who haven't made the effort to become acquainted with my research interests and work. A long list of your past experiences will not help, neither will copying-pasting titles of some of my papers. If your email only lists your C.V. and grades, and doesn't mention how our research interests may overlap beyond a generic comment that you liked paper x or y, I won't respond, regardless of how awesome you are.
Now, if you are genuinely interested in working with me, you should familiarize yourself with my research. Send me an abstract or full proposal explaining what research topics attract you, what kind of projects you would be interested in, and why you think our research interests match. I am open to exploring new research areas, but for your research proposal to be positively received, you should demonstrate that you understand the research topics I am interested in, and that you have a general idea of what research questions you would like to explore.
Note that I can only admit graduate students who are enrolled in the University of Toronto Graduate Program
Current Graduate Students and Postdocs
Damien Masson (Postdoc, 2023 - ...)
Zixin Zhao (PhD, 2023 - ...), with Gerald Penn
Anna Offenwanger (PhD, 2021 - ...), with Theophanis Tsandilas
Warren Park (PhD, 2021 - ...)
Elaine Hyunh (PhD, 2021 - ...)
Book Sadprasid (MSc 2022 - ...)
Former Graduate Students
Arnav Verma (MSc 2023) — now Lab Manager at Stanford University
Jingyu Liu (MScAc 2023)
Nicole Sultanum (PhD, 2017 - 2022), with Mike Brudno — now Senior Researcher at Tableau Research
Minfan Zhang (MSc, 2022), with Marzyeh Ghassemi — now Software / Machine Learning Engineer at Aviva Canada.
Gabriela Morgenshtern (MSc, 2022), with Anna Goldenberg — now Graduate Research Assistant at University of Zurich
Hrim Mehta, with Chris Collins
Ram Gurram (MScAC 2021)
Peifeng Zhu (MScAC 2021)
Josh Holinaty (MSc, 2021), with Alec Jacobson — now UX/UI artist at Improbable, and freelance professional illustrator
Claudia Chen (MSc, 2021), with Khai Truong — now Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Charles-Olivier Dufresne Camaro (PhD supervision: 2019-2021), with Sven Dickinson — transferred to University of Manitoba
Steven (Yifan) Zeng (MSc, 2020), with Khai Truong — now Software Developer at Verafin
Elaine Hyun (MSc, 2020) — now PhD student at UofT
Vicky Bilbily (MSc, 2020) — now Game Programmer at Behaviour Interactive
Jianda Chen (MScAc, 2020)
Raymond Zeng (MScAc, 2020) — now Software Developer at SOTI
Weija Sun (MScAc, 2020)
Jacob Ritchie (MSc, 2019), with Daniel Wigdor — now PhD student at Stanford
Michael Glueck (PhD, 2018), with Daniel Wigdor — now Manager of Research Science at Facebook Reality Labs
Amira Chalbi (PhD, 2018), with Nicolas Roussel — now Research Scientist at Worldline R&D
Research Assistants, Interns and Undergrad Students
Emilie Yu (2023) — International Visiting Student
Morgane Koval (2023) — International Visiting Student
Eva Mackamul (2023) — International Visiting Student
Adrien Chaffangeon (2018 - 2019) — International Visiting Student
Leen Al Abadi (2024) — Undergraduate Research Student
Xinyan Lyu (2024) — Undergraduate Research Student
Khatchig Anteblian (2024) — Undergraduate Research Student
Ashenafee Mandefro (2024) — Undergraduate Research Student
Kimlin Chin (2024) — Undergraduate Research Student
Zhaoyi Cheng (2024) — Undergraduate Research Student
Thakshajiny Mangaleswaran (2024) — Undergraduate Research Student
Cana Leung (2024) — Research Assistant
Nora (Nuo) Xu (2023 - 2024) — Undergraduate Research Student
Jessica Wang (2023 - 2024) — Undergraduate Research Student
Ofek Gross (2023) — Undergraduate Research Student
Priyanka Raj (2023) — Undergraduate Research Student
Samuel Vedrik (2021 - 2022) — Undergraduate Research Student
Haoda Li (2020 - 2021) — Research Assistant (stats)
Mingwei Xu (2020 - 2021) — Research Assistant (stats)
Arnav Verma (2020 - 2021) — Undergraduate Research Student
Jarryullah Ahmad (2020 - 2021) — Research Assistant
Michael Moon (2019 - 2022) — Research Assistant (stats)
Eris (Jiyayi) Zhang (2018 - 2020) — Undergraduate Research Student
Jacob Ritchie (2019) — Research Assistant
Hrim Mehta (2016) — MITACS undergraduate intern
Emmanuel Scouflaire (2016) — Intern
Aurélie Desmet (2015) — Intern
David Demol (2015) — Intern
Anne-Sophie Saint-Omer (2015) — Intern
Guia Camille Gali (2010-2012) — Research Assistant
Symon Olivier (2010-2011) — Research Assistant
Robert Tu (2010-2011) — Research Assistant