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Alumni

This is a non-exhaustive list of people who have contributed to past research work with our group and where they work today. Information is accurate as of July 2024.

Abeer Al-Hyari
Mohsen Fathi Rizi
Mohamed Elmahgiubi
Ziad Abuowaimer
Pooria Esmaeili

From left to right: Abeer Al-Hyari, Mohsen Fathi Rizi, Mohamed Elmahgiubi, Ziad Abuowaimer, and Pooria Esmaeili

Ph.D Alumni

  1. Jeremy Foxcroft (2023); recent PhD graduate of the University of Guelph under Luiza Antonie (research)
  2. Abeer Al-Hyari (2019), 2018/2019 Michal Servit Award Winner; Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering at Al-Balqa' Applied University in Jordan
  3. Ahmed Shamli (2019), 2019 Michal Servit Award Winner; Senior Data Scientist as Planitar Inc.
  4. Ziad Abuowaimer (2018), 2018/2019 Michal Servit Award Winner; Software Engineer at Huawei, previously at Intel
  5. Ahmed Al-Wattar (2015); formerly Director of Product Development at Molex, now on sabbatical
  6. Ryan Pattison (2015); Software Engineer at Google
  7. Christian Fobel (2015); Co-Founder and CTO of Sci-Bots Inc., now Senior Data Engineer at TELUS
  8. Omar Ahmed, P.Eng (2013); Principal Member of Technical Staff, Silicon Design Engineering at AMD
  9. Robert Collier (2012); Instructor at Carleton University, formerly at University of Calgary
  10. Ming Xu (2009); Software Engineer at Google, formerly at RIM/Blackberry

M.Eng/M.Sc. Alumni

  1. Sean van den Eijnden (2023); Software Engineer at Canon Printing
  2. Pooria Esmaeili (2022); Machine Learning Engineer at P&P Optica
  3. Mohsen Fathi Rizi (2021); Machine Learning Engineer at Pinnacle
  4. Hannah Szentimrey (2020), EIT; Software Engineer - Machine Learning at P&P Optica
  5. Griffin Lacey (2017); Manager, Solutions Architect at NVIDIA, interned at Google
  6. Dunia Jamma (2016); FPGA Design Engineer at Luxolis, former researcher at AMD in collaboration with the University of Guelph
  7. Mohammed Elmahgiubi (2016); Machine Learning Scientist, Autonomous Driving at Huawei
  8. Bazyli Debowski (2016); now Ph.D. candidate at the University of Guelph under Drs. Fei Song and Petros Spachos (Google Scholar)
  9. Edward Armstrong (2014); Programmer Analyst/Consultant for SHARCNET at the University of Guelph
  10. Samaneh Victoria Sheikh-Nia (2012); former NLP engineer at ThinkData Works, now Director of STEMTREE in Irvine, California
  11. Max Walton (2010); former Staff Engineer at Evertz, now Software Development Manager at Amazon
  12. Mahdi Elghazali (2008); went on to get his PhD from the University of Waterloo, now ESD Reliability Engineer at Intel in Oregon
  13. Gary (Peng) Du (2003); Senior Staff Engineer at Nokia Siemens Networks in China

Select URA, USRA, and Other Alumni

  1. Brayden Yip, current Summer 2024 URA
  2. Andrew David Gunter (B.Eng 2019); now Ph.D. candidate at the University of British Columbia and ML Researcher at Singulos Research (Google Scholar)
  3. Dani Maarouf (B.Eng 2019); Senior Software Engineer at Cisco, formerly at Ciena
  4. Matthew Westrik (B.Comp 2017); Software Engineer at Retool in San Francisco, formerly at Benchling and Square
  5. Adam Erb (B.Eng 2011); Software Engineer at Cash App
  6. Jon Spenceley (B.Comp 2009); now a Community Manager and Marketing Specialist at Blue North Strategies