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GRADUATED STUDENTS

Postdoctoral Fellows

(Oct 2017 - June 2018)Now Assistant Professor @ University of Victoria

  • Ezgi Guliyev, MD

(Visitor 2018; with A Greenshaw)Now in Turkey

  • Jie Cheng

(1998-1999)Now @ GSK)

  • Vadim Bulitko

(2000)Now Ass't Prof @ UofA

  • Omid Madani

(Oct 2001 - July 2003)Yahoo! Research (Overture); SRI; Now at Google

  • Shaojun Wang

Aug 2003 - Aug 2006 @ UofANow at Wright State

  • Bob Price

(with P. Messinger & G. Haeubl, from 2003 -2006 @ UofA)Now @ PARC

  • Sergey Kirshner

(July 2006 - June 2008 @ UofA)Now @ Purdue Statistics

  • Matt Brown

(Jan 2007 - Dec 2008 @ UofA) Now @ UofA Medical) [Director, Brain Tumor Analysis Project ]

  • Chun-Num Yu

(Sept 2010 - Sept 2012) Survival Prediction; Covariate shiftNow @ Bell Labs

  • Mohamed Ben Salah

(with P. Boulanger from Feb - Dec 2013) Now in USA

PhD Students

  • Farzaneh Mirzazadeh

(April 2012 PhD @ UofA)NSERC with D. SchuurmansLinkage analysis

  • Felicity Allen

(Sept 2010 - Dec 2015 Ph.D. @ UofA)ICT; Interpreting ESI MassSpecNow in England

  • Sheehan Khan

(Sept 2008 - May 2015 PhD @ UofA)NSERC, Alberta Ingenuity, Ralph Steinhauer, PIMS ITGC Fellowship in Mathematical BiologyUnderstanding Association Studies

  • Siamak (Mohsen) Ravanbakhsh

(May 2008- Sept 2009 MSc @ UofA)AIFT (2011)(Oct 2009 - Dec 2014 PhD @ UofA)Message Passing Inference in graphical models; interpreting NMR spectra -- to help analyze blood or urine samples for diagnosis or prognosis

  • Mohsen Hajiloo

(Sept 2009 - Dec 2013 PhD @ UofA) Medicine/Science Funding; with S. DamarajuUsing prior biological knowledge to understand SNP dataPDF at Goldenberg Lab (UofTorono)Now @ Amazon in Seattle

  • Saman Vaisipour

(January 2008 - Dec 2013 PhD @ UofA)Batch Effects - BECCANow at Google (Waterloo)

  • Alireza Farhangfar

NSERC, with C. SzepesvariAlberta Ingenuity (2006-2013))Active learning: deciding which images to label to produce an effective classifier

  • Ilya Levner

(2004-2008 PhD @ UofA)NSERC, Killam, Alberta Ingenuity; with H. Zhang)Using deep nets to automatically learn effective segmenters Now @ FICO (San Diego)

  • ChiHoon Lee

(2003-2008 PhD @ UofA) NSERC, GRA RiceProducing more effective extensions to CRFs (for labeling brain tumours)Yahoo!Now at Nokia

  • Dan Lizotte

(2003-2008 PhD @ UofA)NSERC, Killam, with D. SchuurmansPDF @ UofMichigan & McGillNow Assistant Professor at UofWaterloo

  • Yuhong Guo

(2002-2007 PhD @ UofA)PhD Research Award with D. SchuurmansAustralian National UniversityNow @ Temple University

  • Ramana Isukapalli

Rutgers 2007Now @ Bell Labs

  • Tingshao Zhu

(Ph.D. @ UofA)EzSeerNow @ Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China(Ph.D. @ UofT) Now Professor at UofAlberta

  • Moninder Singh

(on Ph.D. committee)UPennNow @ IBM(on Ph.D. committee)CMUNow Professor @ SFU (Philosophy/CS)

External for:

    • Yaling Zheng

(Dec 2011) PhD @ Univ Nebraska, Lincoln, with S. Scott

    • Deng Kun

(Aug 2009)PhD @ Univ Nebraska, Lincoln, with S. Scott

    • Mahdi Shafiei

(Aug 2009)PhD @ Dalhousie with E. Milios

MSc Students

  • Neil Borle

(Sept 2015-Dec 2017 M.Sc. @ UofA) NSERCIntelligent Diabetes ManagementNow @ Salu Design Group(January 2015-Dec 2016 M.Sc. @ UofA)fMRI analysis (with M. Brown)Now PhD student(Apr 2015- Dec 2016 M.Sc. @ UofA Topic Modeling for Survival PredictionNow AMII staff

  • Bhaskar Sen

(Feb 2014- Jan 2016 M.Sc. @ UofA)fMRI analysis (with M. Brown)Now PhD @ U Minneapolis

  • Zheng Shi

(Mar 2014-Dec 2015 MSc @ UofA)Metabolic Endpoints (with D. Wishart)

  • Ping Jin

(Jan 2013-Dec 2014 MSc @ UofA)Estimating Reservation PriceAlibaba (China) Now @ Microsoft

  • Sina Ghiassian

(Dec 2012- Sept 2014 MSc @ UofA)fMRI (wih M. Brown)Now PhD at UBC

  • Meysam Bastani

(May 2011- Nov 2013 MSc @ UofA)Intelligent Diabetes Management (w E. Ryan)

  • Robert Tso

(Aug 2011- June 2013 MSc @ UofA)Related to Bowel Disease (with K. Madson, R. Fedorak (FoMD))

  • Junfeng Wen

(Apr 2012-Aug 2013 MSc @ UofA)Covariate Shift (with C-N Yu)Now PhD student @ UofA

  • Navid Zolghadr

(May 2011-Jan 2013 MSc @ UofA)Formal analysis of Probe Complexity (with C. Szepesvari) Now @ Blackberry

  • Gagan Sidhu

(Feb 2011- July 2012 MSc @ UofA)fMRI (with M. Brown)

  • Babak Damavandi

(2010-Nov 2011 MSc @ UofA) Understanding the challenges of GWASNow Researcher @ Google (California)

  • Hsiu-Chin Lin

(2009-2010 MSc @ UofA)Survival predictionNow PhD at UofEdinburgh

  • Tom Eastman

(May 2008-Dec 2009 MSc @ UofA) Using metabolic pathways (eg. KEGG) to better understand metabolic profiles (from urinalysis)Now at 23&me (California)

  • Farzaneh Mirzazadeh

(May 2008 - Dec 2009 MSc @ UofA) Analysing Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) to address treatment toxicity (with CCI)Now PhD @ UofA (with R. Greiner & D. Schuurmans)

  • Fariba Mahdavifard

(Jan 2008 - Sept 2009MSc @ UofA)Learning to use microarray data and clinical observation to predict properties of transplant (rejection, GFR, ...)Now within ATAGC

  • Maysam Heydari

(2006 - Sept 2009 MSc @ UofA)Using textures within MRI scans to predict outcome for brain tumour patient (Brain Tumor Analysis Project)

  • Babak Bostan

(May 2008-Sept 2009 MSc @ UofA with D. Szafron)Predicting which proteins on one organism participate in specific signaling pathways based on homology with other organisms (within Proteome Analyst) ]

  • Jieshan (Shanny) Lu

(2008- 2009 MSc @ UofA, with V. Bulitko)Learning effective policy for multi-agent target pursuit

  • Liyuang (Spike) Li

(2007- 2009 MSc @ UofA)Budgeted learning of belief net parameters -- decide which (instance, attribute) probes are best, for learning a generative model.YadaYadda / EMCNow @ Amazon

  • Wei Wei

(Mar 2007 - Dec 2008 MSc @ UofA)Analysing Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) to predict breeding value for cattle (with AgFor)Now @ CGI, Edmonton

  • Alejandro Isaza

2007 MSc @ UofA (with M. Buro)Using Cover set heuristics to produce policy for multi-agent target pursuit -- cops and robbers

  • Peter Wang

2006-2007Graduate Scholarship(2004-2007 MSc @ UofA)Now @ AICML

  • Aloak Kapoor

(2004-2005 MSc @ UofA)NSERCNow @ IBM (Edmonton)

  • Marianne Morris

(2002-2005 MSc @ UofA (with J Sander))Now teaching @ Grant McEwan

  • Mark Schmidt

(2003-2005 MSc @ UofA)PhD student @ UBCNow Assistant Professor @ UBC

  • Jack Newton

(2001-2004 MSc @ UofA) NSERC ChenomXNow @ RocketFuel

  • Brett Poulin

(2002 - 2004 MSc @ UofA) ( w/D. Szafron) Medical School (UofCalgary)Now MD

  • Roman Eisner

(2002 - 2004 MSc @ UofA)(w/D. Szafron)Human Metabolome Project (UofAlberta)Now @ MTI

  • Peng Wang

(2004 MSc @ UofA)(w/D. Lin) SmartTechnology, Calgary

  • Lihong Li

(2002 MSc @ UofA)(w/V. Bulitko)PhD at RutgersYahoo! (2009)

  • Xiaomeng Wu

(2001MSc @ UofA)Now PhD @ UofA

  • Zhiyong Lu

(2001- 2003 MSc @ UofA) (with D. Szafron) Now PhD in Colorado

  • Dan Lizotte

(2001- 2003 MSc @ UofA) Now PhD @ UofA

  • Ajit Singh

(2001- 2003 MSc @ UofA)Now PhD @ CMU

  • Haiyan Zhang

(Jan 2002 MSc @ UofA, Pharmacy) (with D. Wishart) Now @ Alberta Cancer Board

  • Wei Zhou

(Nov 2001MSc @ UofA)Now Ph.D. student @ UofWaterloo

  • Benjamin Korvemaker

(MSc @ UofA)Now @ AmikaNow!

  • Tim Van Allen

(Oct 2000 MSc @ UofA)Now @ digiMine

  • Gao Yong

(Dec 2000 MSc @ UofA ) (with J. Culberson)

  • Karsten Verbeurgt

(MSc @ UofToronto)

  • Joe Likuski

(MSc @ UofToronto)

  • Cindy Chow

(MSc @ UofToronto)

Undergraduate Students

    • Hao Zhu

(Globalink: July 2016 - Oct 2016) Survival Predict

    • Abhinav Agrawalla

(UARE: May 2016 - July 2016)Intelligent Diabetes Management, with E. Ryan

    • Siddharth Muthukumar

(UARE: May 2016 - July 2016) fMRI on FMBIRN data, with M. Gheiratmand

    • Prachi Agrawal

(Globalink: May 2015 - July 2015 )MITACS Intelligent Diabetes Management, with E. Ryan

    • Chi Zhang

(UARE: July 2015 - Oct 2015)Genetic Profiles, etc, with S. Damaraju

    • Xin Zhang

(UARE & CSC: July 2015 - Oct 2015 )fMRI, with M. Brown

    • Neil Borle

(NSERC USRA: May 2015 - August 2015 )NMR Spectroscopy - Bayesil, with D. Wishart

    • Rodrigo Mansueli Nunes

(Science without Borders: May 2014 - Aug 2014 )(BTAP, with B. Hoehn)

    • Abigail Patricia Mendoza Garcia

(MITACS Globalink: May 2014 - Aug 2014 )fMRI, with M. Brown

    • Pranjal Daga

(MITACS Globalink: May 2014 - Aug 2014) Diabetes (IDM), with E. Ryan & N. Asgarian

    • Marc Parson

(USRA: May 2013 - Aug 2013 (PSSP))

    • Jon Ferland

(S2007)

    • Kevin Waugh

(F2006)

    • Rhyan Arthur

(9TGP: Summer 2006)Now @ YaddaYadda

    • James Wagner

(HMP: Summer 2006)Now @ UBC/SFU

    • Mark Schmidt

(BSc @ U of A 2003)Then MSc student @ UofA

    • Brian Stafford

(BSc @ U of A)Now @ EA

    • Samer Nassar

(BSc @ U of A)

High School Students

      • Iain Smith

(June - Aug 2016)fMRI analysis, with M. Gheiratmand

      • Jaykumar Patel

(HIP: May 2014 - Aug 2014)Cancer Research, with S. Damaraju & N. Asgarian

      • Alex Sampley

(BTAP: Summer 2012, with B. Hoehn)Now U of A UGrad

      • Mona Wankhade

(VAMP, HapMap3: Summer 2012, with N. Asgarian)Now U of A UGrad

      • Shayne Richard Baumgartner

(Diabetes -- Summer 2012, with K. Chen & Meysam Bastani)Now UofA UGrad

Research Scientists, Employees

      • Haipeng (Paul) Li

(Nov 2014 - Jan 2017)IDM/EASI (E. Ryan); PSSP; etc.
Brain Tumor Analysis Project
Misc projects: Microarray, SNPs, ...[here]

      • Roman Eisner

Misc projects: metabolomics, stroke, diabetes, ...[here]Now at MTI

      • David (Shenwei) Liao

(Sept 2013 - June 2014)BTAP Database (with B. Hoehn)