Alumni

Post-Doctoral Alumni

Name Years Supervisor Last Known Employment
Himchan Park 2022 Özsu  
Heidar Davoudi 2019 Golab Ontario Tech University
Matt Crane 2018 Lin Facebook
Guoqing Xiao 2017-2019 Özsu Hunan University, China
Xiaofei Zhang 2015-2018 Özsu University of Memphis
Bojana Bislimovska 2015-2018 Özsu SAP Canada
Andrew Kane 2015-2017 Tompa  
Xiufeng Liu 2013-2014 Golab Technical University of Denmark
Olaf Hartig 2012-2014 Özsu Linköping University, Sweden
Jane Mason 2010 Tompa Lockheed Martin Canada
Reza Akbarinia 2007-2008 Özsu INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée, France
Susanne Busse 2007 Özsu Fachhochschule Brandenburg
Hui Zhang 2003 Tompa Oracle Corp., USA
Tae Gwon Kim 2000-2001 Tompa  
Pekka Kilpelaïnen 1993-1994 Tompa

University of Eastern Finland

Doctoral Alumni

Name Year Supervisor Last Known Employment
Chang Ge 2022 Ihab Ilyas University of Minnesota
Brad Glasbergen 2022 Daudjee Salesforce, USA
Michael Abebe 2022 Daudjee Salesforce, USA
Anil Pacaci 2022 Özsu Apple, Seattle
Alexandra Vtyurina 2021 Clarke  
Alireza Heidari 2021 Ihab Ilyas Postdoctoral researcher, University of Waterloo
Mustafa Abualsaud 2021 Mark Smucker Applied Research Scientist, Thomson Reuters
Mustafa Korkmaz 2021 Salem Google
Hemant Saxena 2021 Ilyas SAP
Mina Farid 2020 Ilyas Apple
Amira Ghenai 2019 Clarke and Smucker Postdoctoral research, McGill University
Haotian Zhang 2019 Cormack and Smucker Wish
Kareem El Gebaly 2018 Aboulnaga, Golab and Lin Huawei Canada Research Centre
Ahmed El-Roby 2018 Aboulnaga Carleton University
Pedram Ghodsnia 2018 Salem ApplyBoard
Xu Chu 2017 Ilyas Georgia Institute of Technology
Catalin (Alex) Avram 2017 Salem Google
Gaurav Baruah 2016 Smucker and Clarke University of Waterloo, Canada
Greg Drzadzewski 2015 Tompa Argo AI, San Jose, California
Günes Aluç 2015 Özsu SAP, Waterloo, Canada
Andrew Kane 2014 Tompa University of Waterloo, Canada
Ahmed Ataullah 2014 Tompa  
Jiewen Wu 2013 Weddell  
Xin Liu 2014 Salem SAP, Dublin, California
Shahab Kamali 2013 Tompa Google, Mountain View, USA
Jeff Pound 2013 Ilyas and Weddell SAP, Waterloo, Canada
George Beskales 2012 Ilyas Tamr Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA
Umar Farooq Minhas 2012 Aboulnaga IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, USA
Mumtaz Ahmad 2012 Aboulnaga Auvik Networks, Waterloo
Amr El-Helw 2012 Ilyas Greenplum, San Mateo, California, USA
Patrick Kling 2012 Özsu Google, Waterloo, Canada
Yingying Tao 2012 Özsu CI Investments, Toronto, Canada
Mohamed A. Soliman 2011 Ilyas Greenplum, San Mateo, California, USA
Xuhui Li 2011 Salem EMC, Burlington, Ontario
Iman Elghandour 2011 Aboulnaga Alexandria University, Egypt
David DeHaan 2010 Tompa SAP, Waterloo, Canada
Wei Jiang 2010 Toman FINRA, Washington, DC, USA
Arash Farzan 2010 Munro  
Oguzhan Ozmen 2010 Salem EMC, Edmonton, Alberta
Gulay Unel 2009 Toman Isik University, Turkey
Qiang (John) Wang 2008 Özsu Microsoft, Redmond, Washington, USA
Huaxin (Henry) Zhang 2008 Salem IBM Toronto Labs, Toronto, Canada
Robert Warren 2008 Tompa Kira Systems, Toronto, Canada
Amir Chinaei 2007 Tompa University of Toronto, Canada
Ning Zhang 2006 Özsu Facebook, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Lukasz Golab 2006 Özsu University of Waterloo, Canada
Lei Chen 2005 Özsu HKUST, Hong Kong, China
Ivan Bowman 2005 Salem SAP, Waterloo, Canada
Lubomir Stanchev 2005 Weddell Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, IN, USA
Reem Al-Halimi 2004 Tompa Premier Software Solutions, Waterloo, Canada
Xuerong Tang 2003 Tompa Microsoft, Redmond, Washington, USA
Hui Zhang 2003 Tompa Oracle, Redwood City, CA, USA
Anthony Cox 2002 Clarke and Cormack Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Vlado Keselj 2002 Cercone Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Arunprasad P. Marathe 2001 Salem P&W Bank, London, Canada
Matthew Young-Lai 2001 Tompa Google, Waterloo, Canada
Daniel M. German 2000 Cowan University of Victoria, Canada
Glenn Paulley 2000 Larson and Tompa SAP, Waterloo, Canada
Vitaliy Khizder 2000 Weddell Oracle Corp., Massachusetts, USA
Mei Zhou 1997 Tompa Economical Insurance Group, Kitchener, Canada
Weiye Zhang 1997 Larson and Munro Microsoft, Redmond, Washington, USA
David R. Clark 1997 Munro Waterloo Maple Software, Waterloo, Canada
Alfredo Viola 1996 Munro University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay
Martin van Bommel 1996 Weddell St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Darrell R. Raymond 1996 Tompa The Gateway Group, Waterloo, Canada
Anil Goel 1996 Buhr SAP, Waterloo, Canada
Charles Clarke 1996 Cormack University of Waterloo, Canada
Gopi Krishna Attaluri 1996 Larson IBM, San Jose, CA, USA
Qiang Zhu 1995 Larson University of Michigan - Dearborn, USA
Paul Yan 1995 Larson Larson
Andrej Brodnik 1995 Munro J. Stefan Institute Ljubljana, Slovenia
Mert Cramer 1994 Tompa Waterloo, Canada
Thomas Papadakis 1993 Munro Legato, Burlington, Canada
Helen Cameron 1992 Wood University of Manitoba, Canada
Venkatesh Raman 1991 Munro Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India
Daniel Ford 1991 Christodoulakis IBM Almaden Research Center, CA, USA
Vladimir Estivill-Castro 1991 Wood University of Newcastle, Australia
Vinay Deshpande 1991 Larson deceased
Ronald Gary McFadyen 1990 Larson University of Winnipeg, Canada
Tony Wen Hsun Lai 1990 Wood IBM Toronto Lab, Canada
Ian J. Davis 1989 Taylor University of Waterloo, Canada
Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates 1989 Gonnet Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain
Neil Coburn 1988 Larson Selkirk College, BC, Canada
Hongzhi Yang 1987 Larson  
José I. Icaza 1987 Tompa Monterrey Institute of Technology, Mexico
Gabriel de Vos Smit 1987 Cowan  
José A. Blakeley Pérez 1987 Tompa Microsoft, Redmond, Washington, USA
M. V. Ramakrishna 1986 Larson Monash University, Caulfield East, Australia
Joseph C. Culberson 1986 Munro University of Alberta, Canada
Pedro Celis 1986 Munro Microsoft, Redmond, Washington, USA
Rolf Karlsson 1985 Munro Lund University, Sweden
Claudia M B. Medeiros 1985 Tompa Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil
Walter Cunto Pucci 1984 Munro IBM Scientific Centre, Venezuela
Patricio Poblete 1983 Munro University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
J. Howard Johnson 1983 Tompa NRC Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Nivio Ziviani 1983 Gonnet Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
James P. Black 1982 Taylor and Morgan University of Waterloo, Canada
Erich Bretholz 1981 Graham and Rotem Consultant, Canada
Hendra Suwanda 1980 Munro IBM Toronto Lab, Canada
Nicola Santoro 1980 Tompa Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Raul J. Ramirez Inurrigarro 1980 Tompa Circuitos Impresos de Alta Tecnologia, Saltillo, Mexico
Sylvia Osborn 1978 Tompa and Munro University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Tok-Wong Ling 1978 Tompa National University of Singapore
David J. Taylor 1977 Morgan University of Waterloo, Canada
David W. H. Szeto 1977 Linders  
Gaston Gonnet 1977 George ETH, Zürich, Switzerland
Brian R. Allen 1977 Munro  
Ignacio Mijares 1976 Manning and Peebles Monterrey, Mexico
James W. Welch 1974 Graham  
Syed Amir Bukhari 1974 Linders DynArray Corp., Los Gatos, CA, USA
Pieter S. Kritzinger 1972 Graham University of Cape Town, South Africa
Michael S. Doyle 1972 Graham  

MMath Alumni (since 1996)

Name Year Supervisor Last Known Employment
Fadhil Abubaker 2024 Daudjee  
Amir Vakili Tahami 2022 Smucker  
Nicole Yan 2022 Clarke and Smucker Amazon
Suraj Singh 2022 Daudjee Oracle, Canada
Mohammad Dehghan 2022 Lukasz Golab  
Vargha Dadvar 2022 Lukasz Golab  
Tamal Adhikary 2022 Salihoglu and Daudjee Huawei Canada, Toronto
Christian Covington 2022 Xi He  
Harry Sivasubramaniam 2022 Xi He Huawei Canada, Waterloo
Solai Alagappan 2022 Grossman RBC, Toronto
Yin Ki (Kiki) Ng 2022 Frank Tompa Faire
Chengxi Lou 2021 Clarke Amazon
Nafisa Anzum 2021 Salihoglu Presto Inc
Harsh Bindra 2021 Daudjee Facebook USA
Xue Jun (Jean) Wang 2021 Grossman  
Kyle Langendoen 2021 Daudjee RPIA
MohammadReza Karegar 2021 Golab Huawei Canada
Syed Saad Naseem 2021 Golab unknown
Rishav Agarwal 2020 Golab Akasha Imaging
Manoj Sharma 2020 Salem SAP
Dhruv Kumar 2020 Golab Borealis AI
Omar Farhat 2020 Daudjee Amazon
Xiao Meng 2019 Golab SAP
Mikhail Kazhamiaka 2019 Daudjee and Wong Snowflake
Abeer Khan 2019 Golab Morgan Stanley
Melica Mirsafian 2019 Golab Thomson Reuters
Camilo Munoz 2019 Tompa Stripe
Babar Memon 2018 Salem Amazon
Dallas Fraser 2018 Tompa DigitalEd
Royal Sequiera 2018 Lin LG Electronics AI Lab

Libo Gao

2018 Özsu and Golab Wish, Toronto
Yan Zhang 2018 Özsu IBM Toronto Labs
Guoyao (Freddie) Feng 2016 Golab CMU
Joseph Mate 2016 Daudjee Turbonomic
Xu Cui 2015 Daudjee and Wong University of Waterloo
John Morcos 2015 Ilyas Microsoft
Hemant Saxena 2015 Salem University of Waterloo
Jose Calvo Villagran 2015 Daudjee Creative Web
Young Han 2015 Daudjee Google
Zhiping Wu 2014 Tompa TRIMPS, Shanghai, China
Daniel Nicoara 2014 Daudjee Google
Xin Pan 2014 Salem Twitter, USA
Chang Ge 2014 Golab IBM Toronto, Canada
Huangdong Meng 2014 Aboulnaga Amazon, Toronto, Canada
Jingen Xiang 2013 Aboulnaga SAP, Waterloo, Canada
Yuke Yang 2013 Golab and Ozsu Kobo Books, Toronto, Canada
Akshay Singh 2013 Daudjee and Wong EMC, Canada
Taha Rafiq 2013 Aboulnaga Amazon, Toronto, Canada
Prima Chairunnanda 2013 Daudjee Google
Simon Forsyth 2013 Daudjee Google
Mostafa Ead 2012 Aboulnaga Amazon, Vancouver, Canada
Changjiu Jin 2012 Salem RBC Capital Markets, Toronto
Alexey Karyakin 2011 Salem Avvasi, Waterloo, ON
Hiren Patel 2010 Ilyas Microsoft
Hatem Mahmoud 2010 Aboulnaga University of Califonia - Santa Barbara, USA
Prashant Gaharwar 2010 Salem Oracle, Redwood City, CA, USA
Anusha Mallampalli 2010 Salem Avaya, Belleville, ON, Canada
Xin Zhan 2010 Özsu RBC Capital Markets, Toronto, Canada
Amod Gupta 2009 Özsu Microsoft, Redmond, Washington, USA
Sean Tozer 2009 Brecht and Aboulnaga Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada
Tim Benke 2009 Salem and Karsten  
Nan Jiang 2009 Ilyas Thales Rail Signalling Solutions Inc. Toronto, Canada
Mahsa Emami Taba 2009 Chan  
Ahmed Ataullah 2008 Aboulnaga and Tompa University of Waterloo, Canada
Nickolay Tchervenski 2008 Aboulnaga IBM Canada
Umar Farooq Minhas 2007 Aboulnaga University of Waterloo, Canada
Hamid R. Chinaei 2007 Weddell Laval University, Canada
Mohammed Abouzour 2007 Salem SAP, Waterloo, Canada
Kareem El Gebaly 2007 Aboulnaga and Lin Ericsson, Egypt
Ye (Brian) Qin 2007 Salem OpenText, Waterloo, Canada
Hobbe Smit 2007 Chan Redeemer University College, Ancaster, Canada
Yasemin Ugur-Ozekinci 2007 Salem EMC, Burlington, ON
Emre Cem Sozgen 2006 Özsu Oracle Corp., Redwood City, CA, USA
Minzhi Lu 2005 Chan Algorithmics Inc., Toronto, Canada
Tony Young 2005 Tompa Infor Global Solutions, Toronto, Canada
Yun Xia 2005 Toman Bank of Nova Scotia, Canada
Heng (Henry) Yu 2005 Weddell IBM Corp., Markham, Canada
Omair-Inam Abdul-Matin 2005 Chan WorkBrain, Inc., Toronto, Canada
Jie (Jane) Zhang 2005 Chan Manulife Canada, Waterloo, Canada
Alex Lau 2005 Chan Redknee, Toronto, Canada
Troy Gonsalves 2005 Weddell Northern Digital, Waterloo, Canada
Jesus Alejandro Palacios Villa 2005 Weddell Mexico
Ningyan Zhong 2004 Toman  
Lehui Nie 2004 Toman  
Maneesha Sahasrabudhe 2004 Weddell  
Yuhui Wen 2004 Tompa Voice Courier Toronto Inc., Canada
Yingwen Chen 2004 Toman Transoft Int., North Carolina, USA
Heechul Lim 2004 Chan Samsung Electronics
Yaya Yang 2004 Chan PCI Geomatics
Yongjuan (Jane) Zou 2003 Chan Nanjing University, China
Hossein Sheikh Attar 2003 Özsu University of Waterloo
Catalin Visinescu 2004 Özsu Alcatel, Toronto
Sam Lightstone 2004 Özsu IBM Canada, Toronto
Weimin Li 2003 Özsu Economical Insurance Group, Waterloo
Fei Ku 2003 Salem IBM Canada, Toronto
Hai Chen 2003 Tompa Waterloo, Canada
Dong Hui (Terry) Zhuo 2003 Salem Amazon.com, Seattle, USA
Hong Lin 2003 Salem IBM Canada, Toronto
Feng Zhao 2002 Clarke  
Elizabeth Lam 2002 Salem Equitrac, Waterloo
Vahid Karimi 2002 Tompa Waterloo, Canada
Maryam Aamir Khan 2002 Salem Higher Colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Leon Cao 2002 Özsu Sony of Canada, Toronto
Sunny Lam 2002 Özsu Siebel Systems , Toronto
Ning Zhang 2001 Chan University of Waterloo
Asim Elahi 2001 Clarke National University of Science & Technology, Pakistan
Zarrin Langari 2001 Tompa University of Waterloo
Christian Cumbaa 2001 Burkowski Cancer Informatics Division, Ontario Cancer Institute
Kinson Ho 2000 Cormack  
L. Kurzyna 2000 Cormack  
Connie Zhang 2000 Salem Oracle Corp., Redwood Shores, CA
Michael Van Biesbrouck 1999 Cormack Thinkage, Kitchener
Yuen Mei (Stella) Lai 1999 Weddell  
Ming Lei 1999 Chan  
Allen Cai 1999 Salem Oracle Corp., Redwood Shores, CA
Koji Ueda 1999 Chan Hitachi Software Engineering, Japan
Peter Yang 1999 Salem Intergraph, Hull
Qing Zhang 1999 Salem  
Winnie M. M. Yeung 1998 Chan IBM Canada, Toronto
David Benoit 1998 Munro InfoInteractive, Halifax
S. S. L. To 1998 Cormack  
Jie Che 1998   Convoy, Emeryville, CA
Kevin Chow 1998 Chan Oracle
Petrus Chan 1997 Weddell IBM Canada, Toronto
Najmeh Joze-khajavi 1997 Salem Mitra Imaging, Waterloo
Raj Rathee 1997 Salem Sybase, Dublin, CA
Patrick Li 1996 Tompa Keane, Boston
Kar-Yan Ng 1996 Tompa Siebel Systems, San Mateo, CA
Kathy Sora 1996 Salem NOVA Chemical, Calgary
Shirley Shek 1996 Chan HK TVB, Hong Kong, China
Jimmy N. H. Ng 1996 Chan  
Elizabeth Tudhope 1996 Tompa Stargazer Software, Mt. Hope, Ontario