Students and Teaching

Classroom Teaching

• 343: Intro to Data Managment: Class begin January 8th
• 2525: Open Data Science: Class is over

Advising

• Winter 2018 Office Hours: M 10:10, T 13:00, W 13:30

Current Research Group Members

• Christina Christodoulakis , PhD
  • Alexander Graham Bell Canada NSERC Scholarship, 2015-2018
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology 2014-2015
• Erkang (Eric) Zhu , PhD
  • NSERC Graduate Scholarship, 2017-2020
  • Bell University Scholarship 2016-2017
  • Queen Elizabeth II Computer Science Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology, 2014-2015
• Jiang Du , PhD
  • Bell Graduate Scholarship 2012-2014, 2016-2017
• Fatemeh Nargesian , PhD
  • Bell University Scholarship 2016-017
• Javed Siddique , PhD
  • Bell Graduate Scholarship 2012-2015
• Carolina Simoes Gomes
  • Wolfond Scholarship Program in Wireless Information Technology, 2016-2017
• Bahar Ghadiri Bashardoost
  • Co-supervised with Kelly Lyons

Alumni

• Patricia Arocena, PhD, Price Waterhouse Cooper
  • NSERC Graduate Fellowship (comparable to NSF Fellowship) 2006-2009
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology 2006-2007
• Fei Chiang, PhD, Assistant Professor, McMaster University
  • NSERC Graduate Fellowship (comparable to NSF Fellowship) 2006-2008
  • General Motors Women in Science and Mathematics Award 2008
  • Walter Sumner Fellowship 2008-2010
  • Microsoft Research Fellowship Finalist 2009
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology 2009-2010
• Boris Glavic, Post-doc, Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
• Jarek Szlichta, Asst Prof. UOIT
• Oktie Hassanzadeh, PhD, IBM Watson Research Center
  • IBM PhD Fellowship 2010
  • Yahoo Key Scientific Challenges Prize 2010
• Hojjat Ghaderi, Post-doc (co-advisor Rick Hull), Two Sigma
• Reynold Xin, B.Eng, PhD Student at Berkeley, Cofounder Databricks
• Flavio Rizzolo, PhD (co-advisor Alberto Mendelzon), Researcher Stats Canada
• Ariel Fuxman, PhD, Research Scientist, Google
  • ACM SIGMOD Dissertation Award 2007. The annual ACM SIGMOD Doctoral Dissertation Award recognizes excellent research by doctoral candidates in the database field.
• Ken Pu, PhD (co-advisor Alberto Mendelzon), Associate Professor, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
• Yaron Kanza, Post-doc (co-advisor Alberto Mendelzon), Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
• Chul (Hyun) Lee, Post-doc, CTO and Co-Founder Thoora
  • Best Paper IEEE/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence 2007
• Anastasios (Tasos) Kementsietsidis, PhD, (co-advisor John Mylopoulos), Senior Research Scientist at Google
  • Best Paper IEEE ICDE 2007
• Yannis Velegrakis, PhD (co-advisor John Mylopoulos), Associate Professor, University of Trento
  • IBM PhD Fellowship
• Periklis Andritsos, PhD, Professor, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Assistant Professor Faculty of Information, U Toronto
• Chris Jermaine, MSc, Associate Professor, Rice University
• Kiran Chaudhry, MSc, IBM Toronto
• Ivan N. Popivanov, MSc, IBM Toronto
• Mohammad Sadoghi, MSc, Assistant Professor Purdue
• Theophanis Tsandilas, MSc
• Charlotte Vilarem, MSc
• Xin Wang, MSc
• Zheng Zhang, MSc, (co-advisor Alberto Mendelzon)