Exceptional Alumni
Notable Alumni
Graduated 2019
Zhilin Zhang
Data Scientist, Amazon
Graduated 2018
Hongwei Liang
Data & Applied Scientist, Microsoft
Graduated 2016
Hamidreza Mirzaei
Color Imaging Scientist, NVIDIA
Graduated 2015
Nataliya Shapovalova
Applied Scientist, Amazon
Graduated 2014
Frederik Mallmann-Trenn
Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Data Science, King's College London
Arash Vahdat
Senior Reseach Scientist, NVIDIA Research
Graduated 2013
Farnaz Agahian
Color Scientist, Google
Hengameh Mirzaalian Dastjerdi
Data Scientist, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Hamid Reza Vaezi Joze
Senior Research Scientist, Microsoft
Graduated 2010
Rhonda Baldwin
Data Scientist, Apple
Ann Clifton
Senior Research Scientist, Spotify
Gabor Melli
Senior Director of Engineering (ML&AI), Sony Playstation
Alumni at top companies and universities
Graduated 2019
Omar Arafa
Embedded Software Developer, Fortinet
Mohamed Hegazy
Software Development Engineer I, Amazon
Graduated 2018
Yinfang Fu
Applied Scientist, Microsoft
Alexander Gawronski
Software Development Engineer, Amazon
Pratik Gujjar
Associate Researcher, Huawei
Yunduz Rakhmangulova
Software Development Engineer, Amazon
Maddy Soleimanian
Technical Solutions Developer, Google
Beidou Wang
Machine Learning Engineer, Google
Graduated 2017
Snehasish Kumar
Software Engineer, Google
Karoon Rashedi Nia
Member of Technical Staff, Oracle Labs
Fred Qin
Data Engineer, Microsoft
NoorUllah Randhawa
SW Dev Engineer, Amazon
Youjiao Sun
Embedded Software Developer, Fortinet
Xinjing Wei
Software Development Engineer II, Amazon
Graduated 2016
Zicun Cong
Software Engineer II, Fortinet
Mehrnoosh Ebrahimipour
Software Engineer, Apple
Michael (Fan) Gao
Software Engineer, Google
Ibrahim Numanagić
Assistant Professor, University of Victoria
Shookoo Pourmehr
Software Engineer, Lyft
Haoyu Ren
Staff Engineer, Samsung
Yao Wu
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Twitter
Zhelun Wu
DevOps Engineer II, Fortinet
Graduated 2015
Te Bu
Software Engineer II, Microsoft
Ken Herdy
Senior Software Engineer, The MathWorks
Ron Kadhirdin
Software Engineer, Google
Ike (Shibin) Ma
Software Development Engineer II, Alexa Speech at Amazon
Ali Madooei
Lecturer, The John Hopkins University
Wei Pu
Software Engineer II, Amazon
Kurt Routley
Software Engineer II, Electronic Arts
Shuyang Sun
Senior Software Engineer, Salesforce
Evgeny Vinnik
Software Engineer, Microsoft
Xiaoqian (Cathy) Yin
Software Engineer, Facebook
Guang-Tong Zhou
Research Scientist, Facebook
Graduated 2014
Mohsen Jamali Langroodi
Software Developer 3, Fortinet
Jinling Li
Software Development Engineer, Amazon
Mingjing Zhang
Software Engineer, Google
Graduated 2013
Ouldooz Baghban Karimi
Lecturer, Simon Fraser University
Sergey Blagodurov
Senior MTS, AMD
Parastoo Geranmayeh
Software Developer, Google
Navid Imani
Staff Applied Researcher, Ebay
Piper Jackson
Assistant Professor, Thompson Rivers University
Yang Jin
Software Developer, SAP
Samaneh Moghaddam
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, LinkedIn
Pariya Raoufi
Big Data Developer, Activision
Iman Sarrafi
Software Development Engineer, Amazon
Andrea Tagliasacchi
Senior Research Scientist, Google
Vivienne Wallace
Lead Data Analyst, Electronic Arts
Jiahua (Jacob) Yu
Software Engineer, Google
Mingzhe Zhu
Software Development Engineer II, Amazon
Graduated 2012
Usman Alim
Assistant Professor, University of Calgary
Jillian Dicker
Software Engineer, Google
Da Huang
Software Engineer, Google
Mohsen Jamali
Engineering Manager, Ai and Machine Learning, LinkedIn
Hassan Khosravi
Senior Lecturer, The University of Queenland
Adrian Kwok
Software Development Engineer II, Amazon Web Services
Majid Razmara
CTO & Co-Founder, MetaOptima Technology Inc.
Maryam Sadeghi
CEO, MetaOptima Technology Inc.
Thomas Torsney-Weir
Lecturer, Swansea University
Weilong Yang
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google AI
Graduated 2011
Nima Aghdali
Software Engineer, Snapchat Inc.
Fereydoun Hormozdiari
Assistant Professor, UC Davis
Bin Jiang
Engineering Manager, Uber
Dissertation: Summarizing Certainty in Uncertain Data
Seyed Mohammad Mahdi Javadi
Faculty of Computing Science, British Columbia Institute of Technology
Sina Khakabimamaghani
Staff Software Engineer, Evernote
Yaroslav Litus
Senior Software Engineer, Google
Ferdinand Stefanus
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
Zhengzheng Xing
Applied Research Scientist, Amazon
Oliver van Kaick
Assistant Professor, Carleton University
Deniz Yorukoglu
Technical Lead & Senior Software Engineer, Google
Bin Zhou
Assistant Professor, Dept of Information Systems, University of Maryland
Dissertation: Keyword Search on Large-Scale Data: from Relational and Graph Data to OLAP Infrastructure
Graduated 2010
Ashgan Fararooy
Software Engineer, Google
Amin Milani Fard
Assistant Professor, New York Tech - Vancouver Campus
Andrei Missine
Software Engineering Lead, Google
Reza Shahidi-Nejad
Software Development Engineer II, Amazon
Graduated 2009
Bobby Chan
Instructor, Simon Fraser University
Brian Fraser
Senior Lecturer, Simon Fraser University
Dissertation: STEPS-FIRST: A systematic inference system with facts and rules stored as activation patterns.
Nominated for CAGS/UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award
Farahad Hormozdiari
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Ming Hua
Engineering Director, Facebook
Dissertation: Ranking Queries on Uncertain Data.
Yudong Liu
Associate Professor, Western Washington University
Kianoosh Mokhtarian
Senior Software Engineer, Google
Flavia Moser
Lead Product Expert, SAP
Lilong Shi
Senior Staff Imaging Engineer, Samsung Semiconductor Inc
Evgeny Skvortsov
Software Engineer, Google
Dissertation: Theoretical Analysis of Practical Heuristics for Satisfiability.
Yang Wang
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba
Dissertation: Learning Structured Models for Human Actions and Poses.
Graduated 2008
Arash Afrooze
CTO & Co-Founder, Hire the World
FuEL Award Recipient
Omer Ishaq
Lecturer, Dept of Computer Science & Engineering, Air University, Pakistan
Dissertation: Algorithms for image analysis of corpus callosum degeneration for multiple sclerosis.
Alireza H Khodabakhshi
Data Scientist, Genomic Institute for Novartis Research Foundation (GNF)
Yabo-Arber Xu
Associate Professor, Sun Yat-sen University
VP of Technology, Summba Inc.
Dissertation: New models and techniques on privacy-preserving information sharing.
Xiaohong (Sharon) Zhao
Research Scientist, Siemens Research, Princeton
Dissertation: Haplotype Inferring via Galled-Tree Networks
Graduated 2007
Cagri Aksay
Microsoft
Dissertation: Non-coding RNA prediction and functional filtering using pentamer sequence motifs.
John Boxall
CTO, Mobify
Alireza Entezari
Associate Professor, Computer & Information Science & Engineering, University of Florida
Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida
Dissertation: Optimal Sampling Lattices And Trivariate Box Splines.
Igor Faletski
CEO, Mobify
Benjamin Fung
Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, McGill University
Dissertation: Privacy-Preserving Data Publishing.
Yuelong Jiang
Software Engineer, Google
Byron Ju Gao
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Texas State University
Dissertation: Hyper-rectangle-based Discriminative Data Generalization and Applications in Data Mining.
Emre Karakoc
Assistant Professor, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Istanbul
Genome Sciences Department, University of Washington, Seattle
Dissertation: Computational studies on structure and functionality of biomolecular compounds.
Ash Ragheb
Software Engineer, Google
Dan Wang
Associate Professor, Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Dissertation: Continuous Data Collection In Wireless Sensor Networks.
Aaron Ward
Assistant Professor, Medical Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario.
Winner of NSERC POstdoctoral Fellowship. Holds the Cancer Care Ontario Research Chair in Translational Imaging Science
Dissertation: Computational intelligence supporting anatomical shape analysis and computer-aided diagnosis.
Graduated 2006
Ming Hua
Engineering Director, Facebook
Hao Jiang
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Boston College
Dissertation: Successive Convexification for Consistent Labeling.
Recipient of SFU's 2007 Governor-General's Gold Medal.
Cheng Lu
Senior Imaging Engineer, Itel Corporation
Dissertation: Removing Shadows from Color Images.
Senqiang Zhou
Engineer, Google
Graduated 2005
Parmit Chilana
Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University
Alma Barranco-Mendoza
Technology Executive, Academic and Entrepreneur, Canadian Space Society, Infogenetica Solutions Ltd.
Dissertation: Stochastic and heuristic modelling for analysis of the growth of pre-invasive lesions and for a multidisciplinary approach to early cancer diagnosis.
Regan Mandryk
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan
Dissertation: Modeling user emotion in interactive play environments: A fuzzy physiological approach.
Award: Governor General's Gold Medal Award winner
Alison Meynert
Career Development Fellow, Medical Research Council, Edinburgh
Dissertation: Common Evidence Network: An Integrated Approach to Investigating Gene Relationships.
Zhong Zhang
Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Lethbridge
Dissertation: Applications of visibility space in polygon search problems.
Graduated 2004
Yuanzhu Peter Chen
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Dissertation: Clustering mobile ad hoc networks using graph domination.
Florian Ciurea
Principal Imaging Scientist, Emergent VR, San Francisco
Dissertation: Colour constancy theories in the real world.
Melanie Tory
Senior Research Scientist, Tableau Research
Dissertation: Combining 2D and 3D views for visualization of spatial data.
Manuel Zahariev
Founder, s2x = SQL to Anything
Dissertation: Automatic expansion of acronyms.
Award: Dean of Graduate Studies Medal Award winner
Graduated 2003
Diana Cukierman
Senior Lecturer, Simon Fraser University
Dissertation: A formalization of structured temporal objects and repetition.
Philip Fong
Associate Professor, Department of Computing Science, University of Calgary
Dissertation: Proof linking: A modular verification architecture for mobile code system.
David Gerhard
Associate Professor, Department of Computing Science, University of Regina
Dissertation: Computationally measurable differences between speech and song.
Adrian Moise
Founder and CEO, Aequilibrium, Vancouver
Dissertation: Designing better user interfaces for radiology interpretations.
Reza Naserasr
Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Mathematics and Statistics
Carleton University
Dissertation: Homomorphisms and bounds.
Jeffrey Orchard
Associate Professor, School of Computing Science, University of Waterloo
Dissertation: Simultaneous registration and activation detection: Overcoming activation-induced registration errors in functional MRI.
Chenchen (Jessie) Zhu
Principle Software Engineer Manager, Microsoft, Seattle
Dissertation: Parsimony with General Character Evolution.
Graduated 2002
Chris Neumann
Advisory Board Member, SFU Big Data Program (CS) & Mentor (500 Startups), Vancouver & San Francisco Bay Area
Jian Pei
Professor, Simon Fraser University
Dissertation: Pattern-growth methods for frequent pattern mining.
Cang Sam
Principal Software Engineering Lead, Microsoft
Andrew Walenstein
Director, Security Research & Development, Blackberry, Seattle
Dissertation: Cognitive support in software engineering tools: A distributed cognition framework.
Graduated 2001
Lyn Bartram
Associate Professor, School of Interactive Arts and Technology, SFU
Dissertation: Enhancing information visualization with motion.
Morten Irgens
Chairman of the Board of Directors at Center for Welfare & Labour Research, Oslo & Akershus University College of Applied Sciences
Dissertation: Heuristics characteristics: The satisfiability case.
Tim Lee
Associate Professor, UBC / Senior Scientist, BC Cancer Agency
BC Cancer Agency
Dissertation: Measuring border irregularity and shape of cutaneous melanocytic lesions.
Snezana Mitrovic-Minic
Adjunct Professor, Department of Mathematics, SFU
Dissertation: The dynamic pickup and delivery problem with time windows.
Melissa O'Neill
Professor, Department of Computing Science, Harvey Mudd College
Dissertation: Version stamps for functional arrays and determinacy checking: Two applications of ordered lists for advanced programming languages.
Anthony Kum Hoe Tung
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore
Dissertation: Constrained clustering on spatial databases.