Post-Doctoral Alumni
| Name | Years | Supervisor | Last Known Employment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aida Sheshbolouki | 2024 | Özsu | |
| Alireza Heidari | 2023 | Ilyas and Özsu | Huawei Technologies Canada |
| Arif Usta | 2023 | Salihoglu | |
| Himchan Park | 2022 | Özsu | |
| Heidar Davoudi | 2019 | Golab | Ontario Tech University |
| Matt Crane | 2018 | Lin | |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dahlia Shehata | 2024 | Clarke | |
| Aida Sheshbolouki | 2024 | Özsu | University of Waterloo |
| Besat Kassaie | 2024 | Tompa | University of Waterloo |
| Amine Mhedhbi | 2023 | Salihoglu | Polytechnique Montréal |
| Khaled Ammar | 2023 | Özsu and Salihoglu | Borealis.AI |
| Alexey Karyakin | 2022 | Salem | Qualcomm |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Luchen Tan | 2016 | Clarke | Zynga |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Dodds | 2024 | Daudjee | |
| Ying (Shirley) Chen | 2024 | Daudjee | |
| Negar Arabzadehghahyazi | 2024 | Clarke | |
| Oleksandra Kmet | 2024 | Golab | |
| Kiarash Golzadeh | 2024 | Golab | StackAdapt |
| Andy Yu | 2024 | Golab | |
| Krithi Kathuria | 2024 | Salem | |
| Mushi (Calvin) Wang | 2024 | Xi He | |
| Wei Pang | 2024 | Xi He | |
| Fadhil Abubaker | 2024 | Daudjee | Distyl AI |
| Abhinav Bora | 2023 | Golab and Keshav | Government of Alberta |
| Shadi Ghasemitaheri | 2023 | Golab | Huawei |
| Tejasvi Kashi | 2023 | Salem | pgEdge |
| Josh Hildred | 2023 | Daudjee | |
| Veronica Salm | 2023 | Golab | Government of Alberta |
| Linh Nhi Phan Minh | 2023 | Smucker | |
| Kamyar Setayesh Ghajar | 2023 | Smucker and Clarke | |
| Mahsa Seifikar | 2022 | Clarke | Ascend.io |
| Alireza Vezvaei | 2022 | Golab | StackAdapt |
| Amir Vakili Tahami | 2022 | Smucker | |
| Nicole Yan | 2022 | Clarke and Smucker | Amazon |
| Suraj Singh | 2022 | Daudjee | Oracle, Canada |
| Mohammad Dehghan | 2022 | Lukasz Golab | Huawei |
| Vargha Dadvar | 2022 | Lukasz Golab | Mariner |
| 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 |
| Udhav Sethi | 2021 | Salem | SoundHound |
| Saira Rizvi | 2021 | Clarke | RBC |
| 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 | |
| Zhiping Wu | 2014 | Tompa | TRIMPS, Shanghai, China |
| Daniel Nicoara | 2014 | Daudjee | |
| 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 | |
| Simon Forsyth | 2013 | Daudjee | |
| 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 |
