Former WCA Members

Where possible, LinkedIn/Institution/Google Scholar profiles are attached to names.

Former WCA Postdoctoral Fellows

Former WCA Postdoctoral Fellows
Name Dates Went to...
Amber Hollinger 2023-2024 Postdoc, Lyon, France
Simone Paradiso 2023-2024 Postdoc, INAF (Astrophysics national institute), Italy
Shahab Joudaki 2021-2023 Dennis Sciama Research Fellowship, University of Portsmouth
Elena Massara 2019-2023 Moving to Data Science
Alexa Villaume 2020-2023  
Zhongxu Zhai 2021-2022 Faculty, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, WCA Associate
Fil Simovic 2021-2022 Research Fellow, Macquarie University, Australia
Laura Henderson 2021-2022 Research Fellow, University of Queensland, Australia
Go Ogiya 2019-2021 Faculty, Zhejiang University, China
Andrej Obuljen 2018-2021 Research Fellow, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Faizan Mohammed 2018-2021 Senior data scientist, BC Ferries

Former WCA Graduate Students

Former WCA Graduate Students
Name Date Degree Supervisor Went to...
Jordan Ducatel 2022-2024 MSc Balogh/Hudson  
Guillaume Hewitt 2022-2024 MSc Balogh  
Alan Nguyen 2022-2024 MSc Percival Ph.D candidate at Yale University
Chunchong (Rufus) Ni 2020-2024 Ph.D Broderick  
Katherine Frazer 2022-2023 MSc Taylor MEd Student at Wilfred Laurier
Greg Schreiner 2021-2023 MSc Percival  
Jedri de Luna 2021-2023 MSc Taylor  
Adit Edward 2021-2024 MSc Balogh  
Siddhardha Penmetsa 2021-2023 Msc Percival NEquest AI
Suraj Srinivasan 2019-2023 Ph.D  Hudson  
Boris Georgiev 2018?-2023 Ph.D Broderick Postdoctoral Fellow, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona
Mike Chapman 2018-2023 Ph.D Percival  
Andrew Reeves 2019-2023 Ph.D Hudson Organizer/Software Developer for CUPE
Manar Naeem 2021-2023 MSc Mann  
Jack Davis 2018-2023 Ph.D Mann Postdoctoral Fellow, India, Paris
Erickson Tjoa 2019-2023 Ph.D Mann Postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Germany
Ken Yoshimura 2019-2023 Ph.D Mann Assistant Professor, Kyushu University, Japan
Alex Woodfinden 2019-2023 Ph.D Percival Junior Quant Trader at Akuna Capital
Yuba Amoura 2019-2023 Ph.D Taylor Analyst, Economics and Investment research, AIMCo
Kristi Webb 2017-2023 Ph.D Balogh Environment Canada as part of Canada Centre for Climate modelling and analysis (CCCma).
Amit Anand 2021-2023 M.Sc Ghose/Mann Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Waterloo
Zhiren (Joseph) Wang 2021-2023 M.Sc Broderick  
Setareh Foroozan 2020-2023 Ph.D Taylor/Percival Software engineer/Computational Scientist for Aurora Solar
Nick De Marchi 2019-2023 M.Sc Percival Data Scientist at Altas Partners
Maxence Corman 2019-2023 Ph.D East/Afshordi  
Finnian Padraig Stott Gray 2018-2023 Ph.D Kubiznak/Mann Postdoc at University of Vienna
Prathamesh Tamhane 2017-2022 Ph.D. McNamara Postdoctoral Researcher, Univesrity of Alabama in Huntsville
Ahmed Shalabi 2021-2022 M.Sc Mann  
Cemile Senem Arabaci 2020-2022 M.Sc Mann  
Chloe Cheng 2020-2022 M.Sc Balogh PhD candidate at Leiden Observatory
Margie Christ 2020-2022 M.Sc Ghose/Mann  
Barbara Soda 2019-2022 Ph.D Kempf/Hardy Postdoctoral Fellow at Perimeter Institute
Soham Mukherjee 2017-2022 Ph.D Schnetter/Broderick Data Scientist at Shopify
Isaac Spitzer 2016-2022 Ph.D Hudson Staff at Space Telescope Science Institute
Chengyu Xi 2014-2022 Ph.D Taylor  
Hamidreza Ramezani-Gol-Afshani 2021- M.Sc Afshordi  
Bailey Alexander Robison 2019-2021 M.Sc Hudson Royal Bank of Canada
Leo Kim 2019-2021 MMath Geshnizjani PhD student at Queens University
Mayar Tharwat Mohamed 2019-2021 M.Sc Ghose/Mann Electronic Specialist at Yasuke Audioworks
Karen McNab 2018-2021 M.Sc Balogh  
Allison Sachs 2018-2021 Ph.D Mann/Kempf Returned to US
Wan Cong 2018-2021 Ph.D Kubiznak/Mann Postdoc at the University of Vienna
Fiona McCarthy 2017-2021 Ph.D Kubiznak/Mann Postdoctoral Researcher and Simons Foundation
Matthew Robbins 2017-2021 Ph.D Mann/Afshordi Sessional Instructor, Dept Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo
Nitica Sakharwade 2017-2021 Ph.D Hardy/Kempf Postdoctoral Fellow at University Gdansk, Poland
Paul Tiede 2017-2021 Ph.D Broderick Postdoctoral Fellow Centre for Astrophysics | Havard & Smithsonian
Abdulrahim Al Balushi 2017-2021 Ph.D Mann  
Juan Ignacio Cayuso 2017-2021 Ph.D Johnson/Afshordi SSr Data Scientist, Mercado Libre
Utkarsh Giri 2016-2021 Ph.D Afshordi Research Associate, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Masoud Rafiei Ravandi 2016-2021 Ph.D Broderick/Smith Postdoctoral Researcher at McGill University
Pablo Bosch Gomez 2015-2021 Ph.D Lehner/McNamara Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Amsterdam (GRAPPA & IHEF)
Hyung Jin Kim (Tony) 2015-2021 MMath + PhD Geshnizjani Software engineer at Comparative
Marcus Edwards 2018-2020 M.Sc Mann Ph.D in Quantum Science and Technology Lab at University of British Columbia
Samantha Hergott 2018-2020 M.Sc Afshordi Ph.D at York University
Tianyi Yang 2018-2020 M.Sc Afshordi/Hudson Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Arizona
Daniel Grimmer 2017-2020 Ph.D Mann/Martin-Martinez MSt in Philosophy of Physics at Oxford University
Nayeli Azucena Rodriguez Briones 2016-2020 Ph.D Laflamme/Kempf Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at Berkley
Supranta Sarma Boruah 2016-2020 MMath + PhD Geshnizjani/Hudson Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Arizona
Qingwen Wang 2016-2020 Ph.D Afshordi Senior Quantitative Analyst
Britt Jeter 2015-2020 Ph.D Broderick/McNamara Postdoctoral Fellow, Academia Sinica, Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics
Marvy Onuma-Kalu 2012-2020 M.Sc and Ph.D Mann Business Analyst Trainee at Udacity
Connor Gordon Martz 2017-2019 M.Sc McNamara In-house STEM Editor at Scribendi Inc
Nicole Drakos 2015-2019 Ph.D Taylor Postdoctoral Scholar at University College Santa Cruz
Meenu Kumari 2014-2019 Ph.D Ghose/Mann Postdoctoral researcher at Perimeter Institute
Saoussen Mbarek 2014-2019 Ph.D Mann Data Scientist at Videns Analytics
Keith Kai-Chung Ng 2014-2019 Ph.D Mann Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Faerlin Pulido 2019-   McNamara  
Alexander Roman 2019- Ph.D Smith/Afshordi  
Haomiao Jiang 2017-2019 M.Sc Mann  PhD Candidate, Yunnan University, China