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Shahriar Afkhami is a third year student doing a Ph.D. at the University of Toronto. He is currently working on the modelling of a splashing drop at the Mechanical Engineering Department. This includes the numerical simulation of a droplet impacting onto a solid surface, as well as the dynamic behaviour of drop after the impact. In order to accomplish these tasks he is presently using the computing facilities of the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Lab. at the Mechanical Engineering Department. His other interests are watching and playing soccer, skiing and swimming.
Anand Agarawala (B.Sc. Honours Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2004) is pursuing a Master's degree in computer science at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Ravin Balakrishnan, where he is investigating ways to make the desktop metaphor more expressive, lightweight and continuous feeling. He has previously worked with Saul Greenberg and Sheelagh Carpendale at the University of Calgary on projects including Phidgets, 3D Interaction and Biological Visualisation of Hierarchical Information. His academic interests include Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Interactive Computer Graphics and Animation, Novel Interaction Techniques and Devices, Pen-based interfaces, Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Information Visualization. Aside from academics he also enjoys filmmaking, rapping, music creation and the arts.
Benjamin Avdicevic(BASc., Aerospace Engineering, Toronto, 2004) is currently a Masters student in University of Toronto's dept. of Mechanical and Industrial engineering. The focus of his research is the application of parallel computing in development of computer program for modelling free surface flows. Some of Ben's other interestes outside the area of his research are: space exploration, open source technologies, History and Social Activism.
Nilesh Bansal received his B.Tech. from IIT Bombay. He has worked at the Univ. of British Columbia as a research intern. He is also involved with development of open source projects. His research interests span over various areas of database systems. He has worked on problems of data dissemination and XML compression in past. He is with the Univ. of Toronto since sept 2005 as a graduate student.
Nilton Bila (BSc. Trent, 2005) is pursuing a Master's degree in Computer Science at the University of Toronto. His area of research is in Computer Systems and presently he is investigating mobile computing and internet systems.
Scott Briggs (B.A.Sc. Civil Engineering, UofT, 2005) Currrently working for a MASc in environmental engineering at UofT. Specializing in the application of cellular automata in civil engineering. Currently studying the growth of biofilms on the interior of pipes in municipal drinking water systems using 3-d visualization to display cellular automata. Two time Captain of the UofT Varsity Blues Men's Swim Team.
Amit Chandel (B. Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India) is pursuing Masters at University of Toronto under the supervision of Prof. Nick Koudas. His research interests are Data Cleaning, Deduplication and Information Retrieval. In his leisure time, he love to listen music, watch movies or to go for a walk.
Thomas Diamantis (Diploma, Computer and Communication Engineering, 2005) is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Computer Science at University of Toronto, where, as member of the graphics group, he is exploring novice ways of animation and their applications on movie and game industry. Previous work also involved some small-time game development and microprocessor design optimization utilizing genetic algorithms.
I am a Master student in Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. I am currently working in the Software Engineering and my supervisor is Marsha Chechik. My research interests are software verification and model checking. I completed my Honor BSc degree in Computer Science at the University of Toronto in 2004. After that and before starting my graduate student, I worked at IBM Toronto Lab as an internship student for 16 months.
Bin Guo (B.S., Physics, Peking University, China) is pursuing a Master's degree in Physics at the University of Toronto. He's studying in the Particle Physics Group, has Prof. Pekka Sinervo as supervisor, and expects to complete the master's degree in summer, 2006. His current project is the ATLAS, which is about the finding of Higgs bosen, a particle that the Standard Model of Particle Physics has prodicted in the 1970s.
Jeremy Hoisak received his Master's degree from the University of Toronto in 2004 for his study of the correlation between lung tumour motion and respiration. He is now pursuing a Ph.D. in Medical Biophysics at the same institution. His research interests include multimodal image fusion and analysis. When not in the lab, Jeremy enjoys hockey, boxing and snowboarding.
Junwei Huang (B.Sc., Geophysics, 2004; M.Sc., Geophysics, 2005) is pursuing his Ph.D. in Exploration Geophysics at University of Toronto, where he is studying Strong Seismic Scattering and Gas-Hydrate, a promising candidate for future energy. When he is out of his office, he likes reading, swimming, playing volleyball with his friends. Traveling across Canada is his another goal except for his Ph.D.
Lei Huang (B.S., Applied Physics, 2004) is pursuing a Master's degree in Physics at University of Toronto, where he is studying ways to build 20fs Laser for the spetroscopy research. When he isn't in the lab, he swims, plays table tennis, and does some cookings.
Jeremy Hussell (B.Sc. Computer Science, Queen's University, 2001) is pursuing a master's degree in computer science at the University of Toronto, where he is planning to implement algorithms that can more rapidly solve large constraint satisfaction problems. His interests include artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, language design (both programming and natural), ornithology, and complex strategy games.
Lei Jiang (BSc, Computer Science, Univ. of British Columbia, 2002; MSc, Computer Science, Univ. of Toronto, 2003) is pursuing a Ph.D. degree in computer science at University of Toronto. His current research focus is on conceptual schema design methodology. He worked as a research associate in the Knowledge Management Lab from 2003 to 2004 on two research projects: the TXIP knowledge management project and the Hyperion P2P data sharing project. His research interests include data modeling, ontology, data semantics, semantic web and knowledge management.
Alexander Kolliopoulos is a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. He received his Bachelor of Science in computer science and mathematics from Trinity University in 2003 and his Master of Science at the University of Toronto in 2005. He is currently a member of the Dynamic Graphics Project. His research interests include non-photorealistic rendering, animation, and interfaces.
Deanna Langer completed her MSc in the Department of Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto in 2004 after investigating the resolution in x-ray detectors for use in radiotherapy. She has been at the Princess Margaret Hospital studying the reproducibility of magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and is now commencing her doctoral studies in the Institute of Medical Sciences at the University of Toronto. Her thesis topic is the analysis of functional magnetic resonance images in diagnosing prostate cancer.
Christian Lessig received a Bachelor degree in Media Systems from Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar, Germany where he worked on the direct rendering of parametric surface on programmable graphics cards. Currently, he's pursuing his Master's degree in Computer Science at the University of Toronto. His interests include physical simulation, photo-realistic rendering and global illumination and parallel architectures, in particular programmable graphics hardware.
Sadath Malik (B.E., Mechanical Engineering, 2000) is pursuing a Master's degree in Mechanical engineering at University of Toronto. His Masters thesis is related to Dynamic Simulation of a Mobile robot using Adams Software.His other interests include Formula 1, chess and free hand sketching.
Luke McKinney (B.Sc, M.Sc) recieved a joint honours degree in experimental and m athematical physics from University College Dublin in 2002. He completed an MSc studying the extreme ultraviolet emission of laser plasmas formed from crygoenically frozen xenon there in 2004, and is now studying a PhD in laser ablation of optical materials in the University of Toronto. He enjoys physical exercise, drawing cartoons and playing go.
Simona Mindy received an Honours Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Toronto, where she specialized in Human-Computer Interaction and Psychology. She is now a Masters candidate in the Computer Science department at the University of Toronto where she is involved in research regarding the development of collaborative online family histories. She has worked with the Human-Computer Interaction group at Defence Research Development Canada and was a research assistant in a cognitive neuroscience laboratory for over two years. Her interests include her dog Max, her cat Aimee, and her pet rock, Brain.
Ken Miura (BASc, Engineering Science, Toronto, 2002; MASc, Aerospace, UTIAS, 2004) is currently in the PhD program at the University of Toronto Insitute for Aerospace Studies. No stranger to U of T, Ken was born here, went to coop here, got his BASc and MASc from here. Past experiences and accomplishments include : working on the integration and testing of the SPDM at MDRobotics, Past Chair of the CASI University of Toronto branch, chair of the first annual CASI rocket competition and most recently Vice Chair of the CSSA held in Toronto.
Alireza Moayerzadeh (B.Sc, Computer Engineering, Sharif University, 2004) is pursuing a Masters degree in computer science at University of Toronto. Currently, he is studying various software engineering fields specially software architectures and requirements engineering to find a master thesis subject and expects to complete his Masters there in 2007.
Yarong Mu received a B.S. degree in Plasma Physics from the Department of Modern Physics of the University of Science and Technology of China in 2003 for the construction of a semi-conductor diode laser. Switching from plasme-laser interactions, she is now focusing on plasma-controlled magnetic-confined nuclear fusion in the University of Toronto. Her interests include production, transportation and other behaviors of impurity particles induced by plasma-surface interactions in different nuclear fusion devices. She is expected to receive a Ph.D. degree in 2008 there.
Daniel Neufeld is involved with the development of computer assisted design tools for preliminary design of Unamanned Aerial Vehicles using Genetic Algorithms and Data Mining. He recieved a B.Eng. in Aerospace Engineeing in 2003 and completed the requirements for a Master's Degree at Ryerson Univeristy in October of 2005.
Mehdi Raessi (B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of Tehran, 1998; M.A.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto, 2003) is pursuing his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Toronto. He is developing a numerical model for simulating surface-tension driven flows, which will be used to study microfluidics in micromolding processes and lab-on-a-chip devices.
Abhishek Ranjan (BTech, Computer Science and Engineering, 2003; MS, Computer Science, 2005) is currently pursuing a PhD in Human-computer interaction at the University of Toronto, where he is exploring ways to improve video-mediated communication. When he isn't in the lab, he plays squash, volleyball, and does digital photography.
Hao (Victor) Ren (B.Com. Finance, B.Sc. Computer Science, 2005) is pursuing a B.Sc. (Hons) degree at University of Auckland, where his main focus is on planning under uncertainty (Artificial Intelligence) with recent work on Safe Stochastic Planning: Planning to Avoid Fatal States. He received research scholarship at RSISE in Australian National University, and did graduate courses in Computer Science at University of Toronto as an exchange student.
Michael Rennie (B.Sc. Ecology, University of Calgary 1999; M.Sc. Zoology, University of Toronto, 2003) is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toronto where he is studying the effects of invasive aquatic species on lake whitefish, a cornerstone species in the multi-million dollar Great Lakes fishery. Michael is a council member for the School of Graduate Studies and the Graduate Student Union at the University of Toronto, and still finds time to volunteers with a Science education and Outreach program and as a community radio disc jockey.
Nikos Sarkas received his Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens. He is now pursuing a MSc Degree at the University of Toronto Computer Science Department, under the supervision of Prof. Nick Koudas. His research interests include Spatiotemporal Reasoning, Constraint Satisfaction Problems and Data Management.
Matthew Strimas-Mackey (B.Sc. Physics, University of Toronto, 2005) is currently working on his Master's degree in Theoretical Quantum Optics and Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Toronto. Matthew is known for his inability to make decisions and as such has not yet picked a topic for his Master's thesis. When not studying he tries to get outdoors as much as possible to go backpacking, canoeing, or biking.
Xiaolu Yu (Bachelor of Science in Nanjing University, China, Atmospheric Science, 2005) is now pursuing a Master's degree in atmosperic physics at University of Toronto, where she is studying ways to simulate climate change of the earth by using complicated climate system models. She expects to complete her master's degree in 2006 and begin her Ph.D. there subsequently. Besides studying and research, she swims, hikes and plays frisbee, volleyball for the department team.
Yi Zhao (B.Sc., Physics, Peking University, China, 2004; M.Sc., Physics, University of Toronto, Canada, 2005) is now a Ph.D. candidate of physics at University of Toronto. He's now studying quantum information processing, specialized fiber-based experimental on quantum key distribution, which could guarantee unconditional communication security.
Kai Zhuang is a 4th year undergraduate student in UofT's biomedical engineering program. He is currently working on his thesis on the molecular dynamic simulation of insulin and insulin receptor binding, utilizing the only availiable insulin receptor structure in the world. His past experience range from bioinformatics to in vitro protein characterization, his future research direction is in the field of computational system biology.
Tingting Zou received her Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 2001. She joined SWI Inc. after graduation, where she mainly worked on client site as a tester. She started the part time graduate study in Computer Science at the University of Toronto in 2003. Her research interests include requirement engineering, software architectures.
