Graduate Student profiles

Short Biography

Greta is currently a graduate student pursuing a Master's in Applied Science at the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. She is working on system trace mining, analysis, and visualization and the applicability of the extracted information for system certification.

Kamal is currently a graduate student pursuing a Master's in Applied Science in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He is working on Embedded system research in Real-time Embedded Software Group. He has received a Bachelor of Electronics & Communication Engineering from Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology Bangalore, with Gold Medal. In due course of time he has worked in STUDSAT-2, ISRO sponsored India's first Twin Nano-Satellite project, as a core member of RTOS Implementation. He has also presented his research paper at IEEE conference, Meterology for Aerospace at Benevento, Italy.

I am currently a masters student in the E&CE department at university of Waterloo, under the supervision of Professor Sebastian Fischmeister, as part of the Embedded Software Group. I am currently working on an experimental platform for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) algorithms. I received my Mechatronics Engineering degree at University of Waterloo in 2014.

Anderson Oliveira received his Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering from Federal University of Goiás, Brazil, in 2014. After graduation, Anderson has worked with sensor design for seeding equipment, development of embedded software and autonomous image capture systems used in autonomous vehicles.

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.

Ajay received his Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, India. He was a project engineer for almost two years with Department of Science & Technology, India. He is currently working under the supervision of Professor Sebastian Fischmeister in the Real-Time Embedded Software group.

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.

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.

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.

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.