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Thomas Reidemeister got his Bachelor and Diploma in Ingenieurinformatik (Dipl. Ing.-Inf.) from the University of Magdeburg, Germany. He finished his PhD in the ECE department the University of Waterloo. His research interests include benchmarking of embedded systems; the design and evaluation of safety-critical control systems, and fault-diagnosis in distributed systems.

I am currently a graduate student at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. I completed my MSc in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in August 2009 and BSc in Computer Science and Information Technology at the Islamic University of Technology, Bangladesh in September 2006.

Hany's research interest is mainly in the instrumentation and debugging of multicore systems with special focus on embedded and real-time systems. He also works on analyzing and characterizing real-time communication in multicore systems.

Wallace Wu received his BASc degree in computer engineering at the University of Waterloo in 2010, with distinction and was on the dean's honour list. Wallace has had experience working in wireless communications and embedded device driver software at Research in Motion (RIM) Ltd. and QUALCOMM Incorporated in Bluetooth and UTMS/CDMA modem data services respectively.

Yassir Rizwan recieved his BASc degree in Mechatronics Engineering (with Honours) from the Unversity of Waterloo in 2009. Yassir has worked at Hatch, Prodomax Automation, Husky Injection Molding Systems and Raytheon Canada during his co-op terms as an undergraduate student.

Currently works as Development Engineer, Specialist level at a telecommunication company, called Intelbras S.A.. Also serves as Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern Santa Catarina (UNISUL) and is currently licensed for PhD in Engineering of Automation and Systems at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC).

In my professional experience, I have worked as an Intern on Voice over IP technology at Title Developments and on Health Care Products, by Veteran Affairs US, in Kabot international.

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Lucas Coelho received his B.Sc degree on Automation and Control Engineering from UFSC, Brazil, in 2018. During his degree, he worked with non-linear model predictive control and embedded software for an airborne wind energy prototype.

Leonardo holds an undergraduate degree in Electronics Engineering from
Federico Santa Maria Technical University, in Chile. He is currently
working as a research volunteer under the supervision of Prof.
Sebastian Fischmeister at the Real-Time Embedded Software Group. His
background includes digital systems design, signal processing, and

Samuel Yigzaw graduated with a BASc in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo in 2019. He is currently pursuing an MASc in Electrical and Computer Engineering, supervised by Dr. Sebastian Fischmeister. His research interests include artificial intelligence and reinforcement learning. As an undergrad, he interned at various companies, including SAP, Deloitte Consulting, and Coherent Logix.

Karim received his MASc. from the University of Waterloo in 2012 in electrical and computer engineering, specializing in energy harvesting and instrumentation. He holds a BSEE from AAST (Egypt) specializing in electronics and telecommunications engineering. Prior to joining ESG, he worked in medical devices, automotive electronics, and university teaching.

Goksen Umut Guler completed his undergraduate bachelors degree at Baskent University, Turkey. During his studies he worked as a freelancer on topics such as machine learning, web security consultancy, database designer and web development. He also worked as an intern at OYAK, Turkey for his summer internship.

Lukas Fridolin Schmidt completed his BMath in Pure Mathematics at the University of Waterloo in 2019.

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I studied for my B.Sc in Software Engineering at the University of Glamorgan, for which I received a first in 2012. I am currently undertaking an M.ASc in Computer Science. My research interests are primarily in distributed and parallel systems, as well as cryptography.

Yuguang Zhang holds an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo and is currently taking a Masters in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. During co-op terms as an undergraduate, he has worked as a web developer. Currently, he is working on Datamill as his research project, with interests in benchmarking and performance evaluation. 

Murray Dunne completed his BSc. in Computer Science at the University of Victoria in 2016. During his degree, he worked on firmware for a medical device for the treatment of atrial fibrillation at Kardium. Murray is currently studying for his Master's of Mathematics (Computer Science) under the supervision of Prof. Sebastian Fischmeister.

Ilia Sucholutsky completed his BMath in Statistics at the University of Waterloo in 2017. During his degree he worked in various machine learning positions ranging from data science at a major Canadian bank to algorithm development and bio-signals research at a biomedical athletics startup.

Oleg is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Embedded Software Group, University of Waterloo. His research interests are focused on application of data mining and machine learning algorithms on execution traces to help embedded software developers better understand their systems.

Prajna is a Research Assistant in the Realtime Embedded Systems Lab at UW.  His research interests include time series anomaly detection methods (unsupervised and supervised), device prognostics and time series regression on data collected from the Internet Of Things (IOT), automotive computers and other electronic machinery.

Adan Flores holds a Bachelor’s in mechatronics engineering from Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez in 2014. Adan worked as an embedded software engineer at Delphi Automotive Systems for almost 4 years. Adan is currently pursuing his master degree in applied science under the supervision of Dr. Sebastian Fischmeister.

Nirmal holds an undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo. During his undergraduate degree, Nirmal worked as an Undergraduate Research Assistant under the supervision of Prof.  Sebastian Fischmeister. The internships during his undergraduate career allowed him to explore different industries and gave him an opportunity to work on various projects such as optimising a notification delivery service and implementing the software component of encoders and decoders for video/audio transmission. Nirmal is currently pursuing a degree in Master's of Applied Science in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Sebastian Fischmeister. His current projects deal with accelerating algorithms using heterogenous systems which is also one of his research interests along with Embedded Systems and Distributed Systems.

Shefali is currently pursuing her master's degree in applied science under the supervision of Dr. Sebastian Fischmeister, University of Waterloo. Her current research field is functional safety and cybersecurity of autonomous vehicles.

Waleed received his Bachelor of Applied Science in Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Waterloo. He is currently working under the supervision of Professor Sebastian Fischmeister in the Real-Time Embedded Software group.

Hank Du received his B.Eng in Electrical Engineering from Dalhousie University in 2017. He is currently pursuing his M.Eng degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering with software diploma in University of Waterloo. He has experience working

Renfang Liao received her Bachelor of Environmental Studies degree with a Computer Science Minor from the University of Waterloo in 2014 and received her Bachelor of Engineering majoring in Remote Sensing Science and Engineering from Wuhan University in the same year. In 2016 she completed her Master of Science degree from the University of Waterloo.

Nathan graduated with a BASc in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo in 2019 and is currently pursuing a MASc with a focus on embedded systems security. During his undergraduate degree, he interned at many companies, including IO Industries, BlackBerry, and NVIDIA, where he developed his interest in working with low-level software.