Alumni profiles

Alexander Wong

Ph.D.

His research interests primarily lie in artificial intelligence and computational imaging. In the area of computational imaging, his focus is on integrative computational imaging systems for biomedical imaging (inventor/co-inventor of Correlated Diffusion Imaging, Compensated Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Spectral Light-field Fusion Micro-tomography, Compensated Ultrasound Imaging, Coded Hemodynamic Imaging, High-throughput Computational Slits, Spectral Demultiplexing Imaging, and Parallel Epi-Spectropolarimetric Imaging). In the area of artificial intelligence, his focus is on operational artificial intelligence (co-inventor/inventor of , generative synthesis, evolutionary deep intelligence, Deep Bayesian Residual Transform, Discovery Radiomics, and random deep intelligence via deep-structured fully-connected graphical models).

Xuezhi (Bruce) Yang

Post Doctoral Fellow

Xuezhi Yang received his B.Eng. degree from Anhui University, China, in 1992, the M.Eng. degree from Hefei University of Technology, China, in 1995, and the Ph.D. degree from The University of Hong Kong, China, in 2003. From 2006 to 2007, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He is currently a professor in the School of Computer and Information at Hefei University of Technology. His research interests include image processing, pattern recognition, automated interpretation of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery, and automated visual inspection system.

Qiyao Yu

Ph.D.

I received my B.A.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Tsinghua University, China in 1997, my M.A.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada in 2002, and my Ph.D. degree in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 2006. I am currently working at Eutrovision inc, Shanghai, China.

Peter Yu

M.A.Sc.

I am a researcher and developer with expertise in the areas of image processing, remote sensing and computer vision. I received BASc and MASc degrees in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo in 2007 and 2009, respectively. After obtaining my MASc, I continued working with the VIP lab as a research associate from 2009 - 2010. Since 2010, I have been working in industry on image processing techniques for medical and remote sensing applications.

Bing Yue

M.A.Sc.

Bing Yue received her bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, China, in 1991, and the M.A.Sc. degree in Systems Design Engineering as part of the VIP group in 2001. From 1991 to 1999, she was a part of the Remote Sensing Geology Department of Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, Beijing, China, as an engineer. Since 2002, she was a Research Assistant with Noetix Research Inc., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, under contract with the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Shiva Zaboli

M.A.Sc.

Email: szaboli[at]uwaterloo.ca

Short biography

I have received my BSCE in Computer Engineering (Hardware) and MSCS in Computer Science (Machine Intelligence and Robotics) both from the Computer Engineering and Information Technology Department at Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic) in 1999 and 2003 respectively.

Marie Hoekstra

M.Sc.

Supervisors

David A. Clausi, Claude Duguay

Research interests

My research interest lies with using RADARSAT-2 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery to automate the classification of ice-water on large northern lakes.

Research topics

Image Segmentation/Classification

Avery Ma

M.A.Sc.

Supervisors

David A. Clausi, Alexander Wong

Research interests

My research interest lies with acquiring depth information for the purpose of computer vision using a single camera capture by leveraging the camera response to the defocus effect of the projected pattern.

Research topics

Computer Vision

Helmut Neher

M.A.Sc.

Supervisors

David A. Clausi, Alexander Wong

Research interests

My research interest lies in estimating hockey player pose estimation and action recognition using deep neural networks.

Research topics

Computer Vision

Video Analysis

Vignesh Sankar

M.A.Sc.

Supervision

David A. Clausi, Paul Fieguth

Research interests

My research interests involve projector compensation for unconvential projection surface.

Research topics

Discovery Radiomics

Keerthijan Radhakrishnan

M.A.Sc.

Supervisors

David A. Clausi, Andrea Scott

Research interests

My research interests lie with estimating sea ice concentration using convolutional networks from passive microwave and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data.

Research topics

Remote Sensing

Computer Vision