Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Dr. Ouldooz Baghban Karimi

Ouldooz Baghban Karimi (PhD, 2013) teaches systems and networking and conducts research on data, systems, and networks. She is passionate about computing science education and facilitating progress towards equity, justice, and fair access in the computing science discipline, and through computing science in society. She is active in taking opportunities to serve the community towards diversity and inclusion. She is a recipient of Google Research exploreCSR award, and the director of Explore Computing Science Research Workshop at Simon Fraser University. She has served as Diversity and Inclusion Chair at ACM MMSys2023 and Co-Chair of CS-CAN CAN-CWIC 2023, and Steering Committee Member of CAN-CWIC 2024. She is currently a lecturer, a Rajan Family Scholar, the chair of the Diversity Committee at the School of Computing Science, and president of Academic Women at Simon Fraser University.

Neha Sharma

Neha Sharma is a PhD Candidate at Network and Multimedia Systems Lab. Her research interests are in evolving camera and wireless sensing technologies using AI on mobile devices. Her recent research focuses on enabling Hyperspectral Imaging on mobile devices focussing on applications in Food Fraud and Mobile Health. She enjoys travelling to different places with family and friends. In her free time, she loves to paint and watch movies

Neda Shokraneh Kenari

Neda is a fourth-year computer science Ph.D. student at Simon Fraser University. She is interested in understanding mechanisms regulating the expression of genes in cells by incorporating computational models and statistical methods. If you have any questions about how computer science can help the field of biology, please don't hesitate to ask her.

Dr. Maleknaz Nayebi

Maleknaz Nayebi completed her PhD in 2018 at the University of Calgary and a subsequent postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto. She then transitioned to a faculty position in September 2018. Her research lab at York University focuses on automated techniques that narrow the requirements gap, enhancing development practices and understanding user needs. Published in top-tier venues with a focus on healthcare, her research has secured funding from multiple agencies. Recognized for her contributions, Nayebi received a prestigious invitation from NSERC to join the Computer Science Evaluation Group, a distinction for select faculty members across Canada. In 2023, she was honored with the IEEE TCSE award at the Requirements Engineering Conference.

Currently, she serves on the NSERC Discovery evaluation group (1507) and is a board member of the York Center for Feminist Research (CFR) and Y-EMREGE (York Emergency Mitigation, Engagement, Response, and Governance Institute). She is also a member of Connected Minds and York’s Center of AI for Society. Additionally, Nayebi has been awarded 16 grants as a PI and in collaboration. Her service in the software engineering community and affiliated institutes earned her the 2023 Lassonde Service Award. Notably, she co-chaired ESEM 2023, SANER 2020 ERA track, ESEM 2020 Emerging Ideas track, RE Data track 2018, IASESE 2018 advanced school, and several workshops.

Dr. Jiawei He

Eric Jiawei He is a machine learning research team lead at Borealis AI (RBC). He and his team focus on adopting and innovating cutting-edge machine learning methodologies in financial applications. Particularly, his expertise lies in time-series analysis and structured deep generative models. In addition, Dr. He is also interested in large language models and their applications.

Before joining Borealis AI, He completed his Ph.D. study from Simon Fraser University (Canada); his Master of Engineering from Nanyang Technological University (Singapore); and Bachelor of Engineering from Zhejiang University (China).

Janelyn Ballena

Janelyn Ballena is the Academic Program Coordinator for the Graduate program at the School of Computing Science. She provides administrative support to current and prospective students in the MSc Thesis and PhD programs. Janelyn has a degree in History from SFU and a certificate in Computer Systems from BCIT.

Dr. Orly Liba

Dr. Orly Liba is a Research Scientist at Google, currently working on Video Generation at YouTube. Until June 2023 Dr. Liba worked in Google Research on Computational Photography projects, such as Magic Eraser, Cinematic Memories and Night Sight, for Google Photos and the Pixel phone. Before Google, she completed a PhD at Stanford University in Electrical Engineering with research in medical imaging. Dr. Liba grew up and studied in Israel and is currently living in California.

Dr. Saba Alimadadi

Saba Alimadadi is an assistant professor at the School of Computing Science at SFU. She received her PhD in Software Engineering from UBC in 2017, and spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern University. Her research is in the area of human-centred software engineering. At the conjunction of software engineering, programming languages, and human-computer interaction, her work aims at improving performance of developers in comprehension, debugging, and testing activities.

Dr. Matthew Amy

Matthew Amy is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing Science at SFU and the Canada Research Chair in Quantum Computing. He received his doctorate from the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, where he developed circuit optimization and verification methods which are in widespread use across academia and industry. His current research aims at improving the ease of implementation and the reliability of quantum programs through the development of formal methods for quantum software.

Dr. Yagiz Aksoy

I am an assistant professor in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University. I lead the Computational Photography Lab, where we focus on mid-level vision problems with applications to AI-assisted image editing and video production. We work in our computational photography studio, conducting research in an active production environment.