Current Ph.D. Students

Ehsan Kamalloo , Tentative topic: Efficiently querying and managing natural language text

Current M.Sc. Students

	Sara Farazi, Topic: Efficient spatio-temporal querying of streaming events
	Saeed Sarabchi (co-supervised with J. Sander), Topic: Schema auto-completion for Web tables
	Zharkyn Kassenov (co-supervised with J. Sander), Topic: Expanding Web tables

Current Undergrad Students

	Thomas Lafrance, Topic: Querying Web tables
	Peter Elliott, Topic: Extracting relationships from organizational corpora
	Boris Fleysher, Topic: Extracting relationships from organizational corpora

Former Students

	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.