Faculty
Ivan V. Bajić
Professor, School of Engineering Science
Research Interests:
- Signal, image, and video processing and compression
- Machine learning
- Collaborative intelligence
Jie Liang
Professor, School of Engineering Science
Research Interests:
- Image/Video Compression
- Multimedia Communications
- Information Theory
Atousa Hajshirmohammadi
University Lecturer, School of Engineering Science
Research Interests:
- Wireless and digital communications at coding and modulation level
- Multimedia communication over wireless channels
- Engineering pedagogy
Researchers
Alumni
We are proud of our alumni. Among them are winners of national scholarships, Governor General's and convocation medals, and paper awards. Most of them have gone on to join the leading tech companies, internationally and locally. A number of them have started their own companies, or chosen to pursue careers in academia.
- Paige Rattenberry (B.A.Sc. 2022, Software Engineer at Microsoft)
- Saeed Ranjbar Alvar (Ph.D. 2022, AI Researcher at Huawei)
- Hyomin Choi (Ph.D. 2022, AI Researcher at InterDigital)
- Robert A. Cohen (Senior Research Scientist, 2019-2021, Senior Compression Engineer at Unity Technologies)
- Ashiv Hans Dhondea (M.Eng. 2021, 3D Graphics Engineer at Niricson)
- Takehiro Tanaka (B.A.Sc. 2021, Software Engineer at Fortinet)
- Mohammad Akbari (Ph.D. 2020, Research Scientist at Huawei)
- Arlene Fu (M.A.Sc. 2020, Intelligent Video Algorithm Researcher at SenseTime)
- Lior Bragilevsky (M.A.Sc. 2020)
- Yunus Khan (M.Eng. 2020, Data Scientist at the University of Regina)
- Elham Ideli (M.A.Sc. 2019, Machine Learning Engineer at Singular Software)
- Him Wai Ng (M.A.Sc. 2018, now with with AltumView Systems)
- Stephen Makonin (PostDoc 2017-18, now Adjunct Professor at SFU)
- Yijian Wang (M.A.Sc. 2017, now with SAP)
- James Lin (M.A.Sc. 2017, Co-Founder of KnowIdea)
- Hanieh Khalilian (Ph.D. 2016, now with Kodak)
- Xing Wang (Ph.D. 2016, now with AltumView Systems)
- Dong Zhang (Ph.D. 2016, now with AltumView Systems)
- Mehdi Stapleton (M.A.Sc. 2016, now with TU Graz, Austria)
- Golara Javadi (M.A.Sc. 2016, now with ZE Power Engineering)
- Ravneet Sohi (M.Eng. 2016, now with Broadcom)
- S. Hossein Khatoonabadi (Ph.D. 2015, now with PDFTron)
- Siyu Wu (M.A.Sc. 2015)
- Omar Alhussein (M.A.Sc. 2015, now Ph.D. student at the University of Waterloo)
- Manjur Rashed (M.Eng. 2015, now with Broadcom)
- Steven Chen (M.Eng. 2015, now with Bendix CVS)
- Yu Gao (Ph.D. 2014, now with AltumView Systems)
- Victor Mateescu (M.A.Sc. 2014, now with MDA)
- Xiao Luo (M.A.Sc. 2014)
- Mehdi Seyfi (Ph.D. 2013, now with AltumView Systems)
- Hadi Hadizadeh (Ph.D. 2013, now Assistant Professor at Quchan University of Technology)
- Simranjit Sidhu (B.A.Sc. 2013, now with Amazon)
- Yue-Meng Chen (M.A.Sc. 2007, Ph.D. 2012, Founder and CEO of HiCling)
- Moein Shayegannia (M.A.Sc. 2012, now Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto)
- Simran Sarai (M.Eng. 2012, now with Schneider Electric)
- Xiaoyu Xiu (Ph.D. 2011, now with InterDigital)
- Upul Samarawickrama (Ph.D. 2011, now with Microsoft)
- Parmida Beigi (M.A.Sc. 2011, now with Boeing)
- Xiaozheng Huang (M.A.Sc. 2011, now with Tencent)
- Xiaonan Ma (M.A.Sc. 2011, now with Boeing)
- Mohammad Jafar Taghiyar Renani (M.A.Sc. 2011, now with BC Cancer Agency)
- Calvin Che (M.A.Sc. 2011, now with Fortinet)
- Dong Zhang (M.A.Sc. 2010, Ph.D. 2016, now with AltumView Systems)
- Andrew Au (B.A.Sc. 2010, Co-Founder of SocialMi, iQmetrix, and Thinkingbox)
- Mario Enriquez (PostDoc 2009-10, now R&D Manager at Amway)
- Jing Wang (Ph.D. 2010, now with GigPeak)
- Hongfei Du (PostDoc 2008-2009, now with InterDigital)
- Mahin Torki (M.A.Sc. 2009, now with Amazon)
- Derek Pang (B.A.Sc. 2009, now with Lytro)
- S. Mohsen Amiri (M.A.Sc. 2009, now with Postmates)
- Guoqian Sun (M.A.Sc. 2009, now with Apple)
- Myo Tun (PostDoc 2008, now with Avaya)
- Sohail Bahmani (M.A.Sc. 2008, now PostDoc at GeorgiaTech)
- Duncan Chan (B.A.Sc. 2008, now with Microsoft)
- Sunghoon Ivan Lee (B.A.Sc. 2008, now Assistant Professor at UMass-Amherst)
- Tong Jin (Ph.D. 2006, now with Teradici)
- Raymond Ngun (M.Eng. 2006, now with Broadcom)
- Victor Chan (M.Eng. 2006, now with MDA)
- Howard Chang (B.A.Sc. 2006, now with Ericsson)
Earlier Alumni (students of Dr. J. Vaisey)
- Chen Ji (M.A.Sc. 2001)
- K.P. Subbalakshmi (Ph.D. 2000, now Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology)
- Ed Chiu (M.A.Sc. 1999)
- David Hargreaves (M.A.Sc. 1994, Vice President of MDA)
- David Houlding (M.A.Sc. 1994, Principal Healthcare Program Manager at Microsoft)
Visitors
- Mai Kimura, Tottori University (2020)
- Prof. Yanshan Xiao, China Three Gorges University (2018-2019)
- Prof. Yingchun Wu, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, China (2018-2019)
- Harshavardhan Unnibhavi, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad (2018)
- Shikha Singh, IIIT Delhi (2018)
- Megha Gaur, IIIT Delhi (2017-2018)
- Jian Jin, Beijing Jiaotong University, China (2016-18)
- Xiwu Shang, Shanghai University, China (2016-17)
- Lijun Zhao, Beijing Jiaotong University, China (2016-17)
- Lei Liu, Beijing Jiaotong University, China (2014-16)
- Meiqin Liu, Beijing Jiaotong University, China (2014-15)
- Prof. Huihui Bai, Beijing Jiaotong University, China (2014-15)
- Kongfen Zhu, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, China (2014-15)
- Pengfei Wan, HKUST (2013)
- Prof. Gene Cheung, York University (2012)
- Yunlong Feng, National Institute of Informatics, Japan (2012)
- Prof. Donggyu Sim, Kwangwoon University, Korea (2011-2012)
- Woong Lim, Kwangwoon University, Korea (2012-2013)
- Kyung-Yeon Min, Kwangwoon University, Korea (2011-2012)
- Jung-Hak Nam, Kwangwoon University, Korea (2011-2012)
- Lili Meng, Beijing Jiaotong University, China (2010-11)
- Shaokun Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China (2010)
- Prof. Jian Wang, Xi'an Technological University, China (2010)
- Prof. John Crawford, UC Irvine (2008)
- Lijie Liu, Johns Hopkins University (2005)