Current Ph.D. Students

	Soroush OmidvarTehrani , Tentative topic: Data integration
	Mir Tafseer Nayeem , Tentative topic: Human-centric modeling of content
	Arash Dargahi , Tentative topic: Joinability of tabular data under transformations

Current M.Sc. Students

	Mohammadreza Pourreza, Topic: Text to SQL
	Md. Mahadi Hasan Nahid, Topic: Data to Text
	Behrad Khorram (co-supervised with M. Nascimento), Topic: Annotating numeric data in tables
	Amir Babamahmoudi (co-supervised with M. Nascimento), Topic: Annotating tabular data using large language models
	Mohammadreza Samadi, Topic: Performance prediction for multi-hop questions
	Ali Naeimabadi, Topic: Product entity matching via tabular data
	Hamed Mirzaei, Topic: Table search with preferences
	Mostafa Yadegari, Topic: Detecting Word Transfer in Open Domain Question Answering

Current Undergrad Students

Former Students

	Mehdi Akbarian, M.Sc. 2022: Probing the robustness of pre-trained language models for structured and unstructured entity matching First Employment: Aimsio
	Shahrzad Sayehban (co-supervised with L. Mou), M.Sc. 2022: Unsupervised syntax-based editing probabilistic sentence generation First Employment: Amii
	Ehsan Kamalloo , PhD 2022: Robust knowledge acquisition in answering information-seeking questions at scale First Employment: Postdoc at the University of Waterloo
	Maithrreye Srinivasan, M.Sc. 2021: Location-aware named entity disambiguation First Employment: Amii
	Harrison Fah, Undergrad summer student, 2021: A dashboard for table search and integration Current: student at UofA
	Jeanne Coleongco, Undergrad summer student, 2021: A benchmark for document relation extraction Current: student at UofA
	Jacob Deinum, Undergrad summer student, 2021: Data collection and maintenance from open data sources Current: student at UofA
	Arif Hasnat, M.Sc. 2021: Interactive set discovery First Employment: Pleasant Solutions
	Yuchen (Michael) Su, M.Sc. 2021: Annotating numeric columns in web tables First Employment: Huawei
	Zharkyn Kassenov (co-supervised with J. Sander), M.Sc. 2020: Table expansion: Populating relational web tables based on examples First Employment: Process Street
	Michelle Aubin, Undergrad summer student, 2020: A search engine over natural language text corpora Current: student at UofA
	Paul Saunders, Undergrad summer student, 2020: A tool for querying lists and web tables Current: student at UofA
	Saeed Sarabchi (co-supervised with J. Sander), M.Sc. 2019: Extending Tables using a Web Table Corpus First Employment: Pagnotta Industries Inc.
	Tanner Chell, Undergrad summer student, 2019: Surveying external data sources for an enterprise First Employment: InsideDesk
	Nathan Vandermolen-Pater, Undergrad summer student, 2019: Collecting and cleaning open data Current: student at UofA
	Sara Farazi, M.Sc. 2018: Top-k Spatial Term Queries on Streaming Data First Employment: Thomson Reuters Labs
	Thomas Lafrance, Undergrad summer student, 2018: BareTQL: A tool for querying web tables current: student at UofA
	Peter Elliott, Undergrad summer student, 2018: Extracting relationships from organizational corpora Current: student at UofA
	Boris Fleysher, Undergrad summer student, 2018: Extracting relationships from organizational corpora First Employment: vrCAVE
	Sanket Kumar Singh, M.Sc. 2017: Strategies for gazetteer improvement and enrichment First Employment: NTTData
	Zhaoyang Shao, M.Sc. 2016: Error-tolerant exempler queries on knowledge graphs First Employment: IBM Current: Amazon
	Neel Parikh, Undergrad summer stydent, 2016, Project: Prototyping with a search interface over documents Current: Student at UofA
	Andong Wang, M.Sc. 2015: Annotating Web tables using surface text patterns First Employment: SAP
	Kai Zhou, M.Sc. 2015: Offline strategies for online set expansion First Employment: Microsoft
	Jiangwei Yu, M.Sc. 2014: Geotagging named entities in Web pages, First Employment: Google
	Muhammad Waqar, M.Sc. 2014: Characterizing users in a classified ad network, First Employment: Microsoft
	Reza Sadoddin (co-supervised with J. Sander), Ph.D. 2014: Finding surprisingly frequent patterns of variable lengths in sequence data First Employment: FICO, San Jose Current: Google
	Saeed Mohajeri (co-supervised with O. Zaiane), M.Sc. 2013: BubbleNet: an interactive interface for retrieving documents, First Employment: Facebook
	Afsaneh Esteki , M.Sc. 2013: Analzing and extracting lists on the Web, First Employment: Telus Current: Tata Consultancy Services
	James Moore, NSERC Undergrad Summer student, 2013, Project: Synonymy Currently: Student at McMaster University
	Hengshuai Yao (co-supervised with R. Sutton), Topic: A Multistep learning approach to prediction and ranking First Employment: GroundTruth Current: Huawei Technology
	Aibek Makazhanov , M.Sc. 2012: Modeling interactions in social media First Employment: Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
	Chaman Thapa , M.Sc. 2012: Non-topical classification of websites (co-supervised with O. Zaiane) First Employment: DataGardens Inc
	Stephen Romansky, NSERC Undergrad Summer student, 2012, Project: Synonymy Currently: Student at UofA
	Eddie Santos, Undergrad Summer student, 2012, Project: Synonymy Currently: Student at UofA
	Pirooz Chubak , Ph.D. 2011: Querying and indexing natural language text First Employment: UBC (postdoc fellow) Current: Senior Data Engineer at Apple
	Christopher Pinchak, Ph.D. 2009: Class-free answer typing (co-supervised with D. Lin) First Employment: IMO, Palo Alto Current: Engineering Manager at Pintrest
	Yang Zhao , M.Sc. 2009: Geometric Filter: a space and time efficient lookup table with bounded error (co-supervised with M. Nascimento) First Employment: EMC, Edmonton Current: iATS Payments, Edmonton
	Eric Luong , NSERC Undergrad Summer Student, 2009, Currently: Graduate student at the University of Alberta.
	Fan Deng , Ph.D. 2007: Approximation algorithms for frequency related query processing on streaming data First Employment: L3S Research Lab, Germany
	Reza Sherkat , Ph.D. 2007: Searching archival data for historical similarities First Employment: IBM Toronto Lab Current: SAP
	Pirooz Chubak , M.Sc. 2007: Integrating natural language text with relational data First Employment: continued for PhD Current: Senior Data Engineer at Apple
	Haobin Li , M.Sc. 2006: Data extraction using wild card queries. First Employment: Yotta Yotta Current: Senior Developer at TD
	Jordan Nielson , NSERC Undergrad Summer Student, 2006, Project: Building a query language for natural language Text Current: Pason Systems Inc.
	Cheng Hu , M.Sc. 2005: Bulk loading a linear hash index. First Employment: Collaborative Learning Network Inc.
	Gabriela Moise , (co-supervised with J. Sander), M.Sc. 2003: Focused cocitation: improving the retrieval of related pages on the Web. Current: Project Manager at EPCOR
	Stephen Curial , NSERC Undergrad Summer Student, 2003-2004, Project: ALVIN: A system for visualizing large networks, also NSERC Undergrad Summer Student, 2005, Project:Automatically Repairing a Wrapper. First Employment: Xymbiant start up Current: Software development manager at Amazon
	Eric Coulthard , NSERC Undergrad Summer Student, 2004, Project: Searching for paths in the Web graph, Current: Senior Programmer at Driving Force.
	Qing Shi , NSERC Undergrad Summer Student, 2003, First Employment: Department of Statistics, University of Alberta.
	Andrew Lau , NSERC Undergrad Summer Student, 2002, First Employment: IBM Toronto Lab.