Ebco/Eppich Visiting Researchers
The School of Computing Science is committed to maintaining a top-ranked research environment, and such an environment requires new ideas, people, and connections to other universities worldwide. The Ebco/Epic Visiting Chairs program supports the School of Computing Science in hosting many scientists of national and international prominence. The program is funded by an endowment from Hugo and Helmut Eppich. The Ebco/Epic endowment is leveraged with research funds from an SFU faculty host and support that the Visitors receive from their home institutions to offer attractive conditions for top-quality outside researchers. The visiting researchers stay for a least a month to collaborate with SFU faculty and students. Each visitor gives a lecture as part of the Ebco/Epic seminar series that brings cutting-edge ideas in computer science to SFU.
2010
Dr. Hisao Tamaki
Home Institution: Meiji University
Area: Algorithmic Graph Theory.
Dates of Visit: August 24 – September 23, 2010
Contact Information: tamaki@cs.meiji.ac.jp Host: Gu, Qianping
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: A polynomial time algorithm for bounded directed pathwidth
Dr. Min Chen
Home Institution: Seoul National University, South Korea
Area: Wireless Sensor Networks & Ubiquitous Computing.
Dates of Visit: August 1 - August 31, 2010
Contact Information: minchen@ieee.org Host: Liu, Jiangchuan
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Mobile Agent Based Ubiquitous Networks and Services
Dr. Qixin Wang
Home Institution: Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Area: Real-time wireless/wired network infrastructure.
Dates of Visit: August 1 - August 31, 2010
Contact Information: csqwang@comp.polyu.edu.hk Host: Liu, Jiangchuan
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: ORTEGA: An Efficient and Flexible Online Fault Tolerance Architecture for Real-Time Control Systems
Dr. Ada Fu
Home Institution: Chinese University of Hong Kong
Area: Data Privacy research.
Dates of Visit: July 15 – August 15, 2010
Contact Information: adafu@cse.cuhk.edu.hk Hosts: Wang, Ke and Liang, Jie
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Two Problems in Social Network Analysis
Dr. Yufei Tao
Home Institution: Chinese University of Hong Kong
Area: Not Available
Dates of Visit: July 1 – August 31, 2010
Contact Information: taoyf@cse.cuhk.edu.hk Host: Pei, Jian
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Nearest Neighbor Search in High Dimensional Space
Dr. Arantxa Villaneuva
Home Institution: Public University of Navarre, Campus Arrosadia
Area: Not Available
Dates of Visit: July 1 – August 31, 2010
Contact Information: avilla@unavarra.es Host: Atkins, Stella
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: CoGaIn: Communication by Gaze Interaction
Dr. Hans-Christian Hege
Home Institution: Zuse Institute, Berlin (ZIB)
Area: Visualization and Data Analysis.
Dates of Visit: July 1 – August 15, 2010
Contact Information: hege@zib.de Host: Moeller, Torsten
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Uncertain Isocontours
Dr. Wael Abd-Almageed
Home Institution: University of Maryland, College Park
Area: Computer Vision, Multimedia Content Analysis, Mobile Robots, Sensor Networks.
Dates of Visit: June 28 – August 2, 2010
Contact Information: wamageed@umiacs.umd.edu Host: Hefeeda, Mohamed
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Towards Large Scale Kernel Methods on GPUs
Dr. Ugur Sezerman
Home Institution: Sabanci University
Area: Computational Biology.
Dates of Visit: March 1 – April 15, 2010
Contact Information: ugur@sabanciuniv.edu Host: Sahinalp, Cenk
Dr. Zhihui Wang
Home Institution: Fudan University
Area: Data Mining
Dates of Visit: February 27, 2010 – February 26, 2011
Contact Information: zhhwang@fudan.edu.cn Host: Pei, Jian
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: K-Symmetry Model for Identity Anonymization in Social Networks
Dr. Guoliang He
Home Institution: Wuhan University
Area: Data mining
Dates of Visit: February 25, 2010 – February 28, 2011
Contact Information: glhe@whu.edu.cn Host: Pei, Jian
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Intrinsic Evolution of Digital Circuits Using Evolutionary Algorithms
2011
Hector J. Levesque
Home Institution: University of Toronto
Area: Formal Aspects of Knowledge Representation
Dates of Visit: April 1 - May 31, 2011
Contact Information: hector@cs.toronto.edu Host: Jim Delgrande
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Generalized Planning: Theory and Practice
Graham Finlayson
Home Institution: University of East Anglia
Area: Computer Vision
Dates of Visit: September 1 - October 31, 2011
Contact Information: graham@cmp.uea.ac.uk Host: Mark Drew
Andrew King
Area: Computational Combinatorics
Dates of Visit: September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2012
Contact Information: andrew.d.king@gmail.com Host: Pavol Hell
Arseny Shur
Home Institution: Ural Federal University
Area: Formal Languages
Dates of Visit: September 1 - December 31, 2011
Contact Information: arseny.shur@usu.ra Host: Andrei Bulatov
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Growth Properties of Power-Free Languages
Dr. Fabien Gaud
Area: Multicore architectures
Dates of Visit: October 1, 2011 - September 30, 2012
Contact Information: fgaud@sfu.ca Host: Alexandra Fedorova
2012
Dr. Abdul Hasib
Home Institution: University Science Malaysia
Area: Wireless networking
Dates of Visit: January 2 - December 31, 2012
Contact Information: eehasib@eng.usm.my Host: Mohamed Hefeeda
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Radio Resource Management in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
Dr. Edith Ngai
Home Institution: Uppsala University
Area: Wireless sensor networking and mobile computing
Dates of Visit: April 1 - 30, 2012
Contact Information: edith.ngai@it.uu.se Host: Jiangchuan Liu
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Context-aware information sharing for mobile users in remote sensing areas
Dr. Olivier Dalle
Home Institution: Universite de Nice
Area: Simulation
Dates of Visit: May 1 - 30, 2012
Contact Information: Olivier.Dalle@sophia.inria.fr Host: Joe Peters
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: My Discrete Event Simulator is Going to be Better than Yours!
Dr. Mi-Yeh Yen
Home Institution: Institute of Information Science
Area: Data stream mining and management, time series mining, trajectory mining and social network analysis
Dates of Visit: May 28 - July 27, 2012
Contact Information: miyen@iis.sinica.edu.tw Host: Jian Pei
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Random Error Reducation in Similarity Search on Time Series: A Statistical Approach
Hans-Christian Hege
Home Institution: Zuse Institute Berlin
Area: Visualization and Data Analysis
Dates of Visit: July 1 - August 15, 2012
Contact Information: hege@zib.de Host: Torsten Moller
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Probabilistic Features in Uncertain Scalar and Vector Fields
Dr. Ugo Vaccaro
Home Institution: Universita di Salerno
Area: Network modelling and communications
Dates of Visit: July 15 - August 15, 2012
Contact Information: uv@dia.unisa.it Host: Joe Peters
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Discrete Mathematics
Dr. Luisa Gargano
Home Institution: Universita di Salerno
Area: Network algorithms
Dates of Visit: July 15 - August 15, 2012
Contact Information: lg@dia.unisa.it Host: Joe Peters
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Minumum Weight Dynamo and Fast Opinion Spreading
Dr. Cui Yong
Home Institution: Tsinghua University
Area: Networking and multimedia communications
Dates of Visit: August 1-31, 2012
Contact Information: cuiyong@gmail.com Host: Jiangchuan (JC) Liu
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: IPv4/IPv6 Transition for the Next Generation Internet
Dr. Phuong Dao
Area: Computational Biology
Dates of Visit: September 15 - October 31, 2012
Contact Information: pdao@cssju.ca Host: Cenk Sahinalp
Dr. Lei Duan
Home Institution: Sichuan University
Area: Database mining
Dates of Visit: October 1, 2012 to October 1, 2013
Contact Information: leiduan@scu.edu.cn Host: Jian Pei
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Outlier Detection Using Frequent Patterns
Dr. Nilgun Donmez
Area: Computational Biology
Dates of Visit: November 12, 2012 to November 12, 2014
Contact Information: nildcs.toronto.edu Host: Cenk Sahinalp
2013
Dr. Roman Bednarik
Home Institution: University of Eastern Finland
Area: Medical Imaging
Dates of Visit: March 1 - April 30, 2013
Contact Information: roman.bednarik@uef.fi Host: Stella Atkins
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Eye tracking and classification methods in engagement, and HCI research in micro-neurosurgery
Dr. Alexander Logvinenko
Home Institution: Glasgow Caledonian University
Area: Colour vision
Dates of Visit: May 15 - June 15, 2013
Contact Information: A.Logvinenko@gcu.ac.uk Host: Brian Funt
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: What Colours do Colourblind People See?
Dr. Feng Wang
Home Institution: University of Mississippi
Area: Networking
Dates of Visit: May 16 - August 16, 2013
Contact Information: fwang@cs.olemiss.edu Host: Jiangchun Liu
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Migration towards Cloud-Assisted Live Media Streaming
Dr. Guozhu Dong
Home Institution: Wright State University
Area: Data mining
Dates of Visit: June 1 - August 31, 2013
Contact Information: guozhu.dong@wright.edu Host: Pei, Jian
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Recent Advances on Contrast Data Mining and Applications
Dr. Dan Wang
Home Institution: Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Area: Networking
Dates of Visit: July 1 - July 31, 2013
Contact Information: csdwang@comp.polyu.edu.hk Host: Jiangchuan Li
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Hop-by-Hop Computing for Green Internet Routing
Dr. Mark Schmidt
Area: Natural Language Processing
Dates of Visit: July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2014
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Linearly-Convergent Stochastic-Gradient Methods
Contact Information: mark.schmidt@sfu.ca Host: Anoop Sarkar
Dr. Fangming Liu
Home Institution: Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Area: Computer Networking and Communications
Dates of Visit: August 1 - October 31, 2013
Contact Information: fmliu@mail.hust.edu.cn Host: Jiangchuan Li
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: From Online Cloud Services to Underlying Datacenter
Dr. Kui Yui
Area: Machine Learning and Database Mining
Dates of Visit: September 1, 2013 - August 31, 2014
Contact Information: kuiy@sfu.ca Host: Jian Pei
2014
Dr. Guochuan Zhang
Home Institution: Zhejiang University
Area: Network Algorithms
Dates of Visit: January 1 - February 15, 2014
Contact Information: zgc@zju.edu.ca Host: Qiangping Gu
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Lower bounds on the classical scheduling problem
Dr. Faraz Hach
Area: Computational Biology
Dates of Visit: January 1 - December 31, 2014
Contact Information: fhach@sfu.ca Host: Cenk Sahinalp
Dr. Nikita Zaborovsky
Area: Operating systems, multiprocessors, transactional memory
Dates of Visit: January 1 - December 31, 2014
Contact Information: nik.zaborovsky@gmail.com Host: Sasha Fedorova
Dr. Laszlo Egri
Area: Operating systems, multiprocessors, transactional memory
Dates of Visit: January 15, 2014 - January 14, 2015
Contact Information: laszlo.egri@mail.mcgill.ca Host: Sasha Fedorova
Dr. Jaroslav Nesetril
Home Institution: Institute of Theoretical Informatics, Charles University, Prague
Area: Computational Combinatorics
Dates of Visit: February 20th - March 10, 2014
Contact Information: nesetril@kam.mff.cuni.cz Host: Pavol Hell
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Ramsey Classes - Old and New
Dr. Baptiste Lepers
Area: Operating systems, multiprocessors, transactional memory
Dates of Visit: March 1, 2014 - February 28, 2015
Contact Information: baptiste.lepers@gmail.com Host: Sasha Fedorova
Dr. Jean-Pierre Lozi
Area: Operating systems, multiprocessors, transactional memory
Dates of Visit: June 1, 2014 - May 31, 2015
Contact Information: Jean-pierre.lozi@lipG.fr Host: Sasha Fedorova
Dr. Zhe Yang
Area: Computer Networking and Communications
Dates of Visit: August 1, 2014 - July 31, 2015
Contact Information: yangzhe2007@gmail.com Host: Jiangchuan Li
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