Supervised Graduate Students
	Ayman Ammoura (PhD student: Residual value Prediction) Wessam Gad El-Rab (PhD student: Machine readable medical guidelines) Koosha Golmohammadi (PhD student: Mining data streams and time series) Reihaneh Rabbany khorasgani (PhD student: Social Network Analysis) Mansoureh Takaffoli (PhD student: Data Networks Dynamics) Amine Trabelsi (PhD student) Aibek Adilmagambetov (MSc student: Spatial Data Mining) Justin Fagnan (MSc student: Social Network Analysis) Metanat HooshSadat (MSc student: Uncertain Data Analysis) Xiaoxiao Li (MSc student: Information Extraction) Hamman Samuel (MSc student: Health Informatics) Farzad Sangi (MSc student: Information Network Analysis) Xiaoyu Shi (MSc student: Graph Mining for FPGA) - Co-Supervised by Bryan Yu Hu Chaman Thapa (MSc student: Information Extraction) - Co-supervised with Davood Rafiei Jing Zhang (MSc student: Machine Learning)
In Graduate Students' Supervisory Committe (current)
	Greg Lee PhD candidate (Since 2007/09) Suppervisor: Bulitko Gregory Leighton PhD candidate (Since 2009/06) Suppervisor: Barbosa Hadi Sabaa PhD candidate (Since 2009/01) Chonghai Wang PhD candidate (Since 2009/05) Supervisors: Yuang, You Xiaomeng Wu PhD candidate (Since 2004/12) Supervisor: Lin
Previous Visiting Scholars
	Kejia Zhang From September 2008 to August 2009 (Visiting from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China) Mnawer Nulahmat From July 2002 to June 2003 (Visiting from Xinjiang University, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China) Sílvio Cazella, From November 2003 to July 2004 (Visiting from University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil)

Former Supervised Students

• Amit Satsangi (MSc.) - January 2011
  Thesis Title: Contrasting the Contrast Sets
  1 Publication: IDEAS Last Known position: ATB Financial, Edmonton, Canada.
• Reihaneh Rabbany khorasgani (MSc.) - September 2010
  Thesis Title: Community mining and its applications in educational environment
  1 Publication: SNA/KDD
• Jiyang Chen (PhD) - March 2010 - co-supervised with Dr. Goebel)
  Thesis Title: Community Mining - Discovering Communities in Social Networks - [his graduation]
  11 Publications: ASONAM, CASoN, SDM, WI, AusAI, WebKDD, IV, WebDB
  Last Known position: Google, Waterloo, Canada.
• Andrew Foss (PhD) - January 2010
  Thesis Title: High-Dimensional data Mining: Subspace Clustering , Outlier Detection and Applications to Classification
  8 Publications:ICDM, KAIS, PAKDD, SDM
  
• Deng Kang (MSc) - September 2009
  Thesis Title: Contrasting Sequence groups by emerging sequences
  Last known position: Bloomberg, USA
• Mojdeh Jalali-Heravi (MSc) - September 2009
  Thesis Title: A Study on Interestingness Measures for Associative Classifiers
  Last known position: Microsoft, USA
• Seyed-Vahid Jazayeri (MSc) - September 2008
  Thesis Title: Plant Protein Localization Based on Frequent Discriminative Subsequence and Partition-based Subsequences
  Last known position: Microsoft, USA
• Maria-Luiza Antonie (PhD - Defence September 2008)
  Thesis Title: Associative Classifiers: Improvements and Potential
  co-supervised with Dr. Holte
  11 Publications: IDEAS07, ICDM'06, KES'05, PAKDD'05, PKDD'04, DMKD'04, ICDM'02, ADC'02, MDM/KDD'02, MDM/KDD'01
  Last known position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Guelf
• Mohammad El-Hajj (PhD - Defence September 27, 2006)
  Thesis Title: Frequent Sets by Leap-Traversal for Sequential and Parallel Paradigms - [his graduation]
  16 Publications: ICDM'01, DAWAK'03, SIGKDD'03, PaDD'03, FIMI'03, DMKD'04, OSDM'05, ICIT'05, ICDE'05, SIGKDD'05, ICDM'05, ADMA'05, AI'05, ICPADS'06, JDIM, DPD
  Last known position, Centre of Health Evidence, University of Alberta.
• Yan Jin (MSc) - August 2006
  Essay Title: Analysis of the State-of-the-Art in Content-Based Video Retrieval
  
• Yaling Pei (MSc - August 2006)
  Thesis Title: Discovering and Ranking Outliers in Very Large Datasets
  1 publication: ICDM 2006
• Yi Li (MSc - June 2005)
  Essay Title: Investigating Data Mining Tools
  1 Publication: ICDE'05
• Stella Luk (Undergraduate Student Internship - Fall 2004, Spring 2005) Title: Scrutinizing Frequent Pattern Discovery Performance.
• Stanley Oliveira (PhD - Defence Nov. 29, 2004)
  Thesis Title: Data Transformation For Privacy-Preserving Data Mining - [his graduation]
  9 Publications: PSDM'02, IDEAS'03, SBBD'03, ICDM'03, PAKDD'04, DM-SSP'04, SDM'04, PSDM'04
• Jiyang Chen (MSc - August 2004)
  Thesis Title: An Algebra for Visual Web Mining
  co-supervised with Dr. Goebel
  1 Publication: WebDB 2004
  Currently a PhD candidate at the University of Alberta.
• Yang Wang (MSc - August 2004
  Thesis Title: EPPdb: a Database for Proteomic Analysis of Extracytosolic Plant Proteins
  co-supervised with Dr. Goebel
  1 Publication: BIDM 2004
  Last known position: PhD candidate at Simon Fraser University, Canada
• Lisheng Sun (MSc - July 2004
  Thesis Title: FootPath: Web topology and navigation visualization
  co-supervised with Dr. Goebel
  1 Publication: WebDB 2004
  Last Known position: Fortinet in Vancouver BC, Canada
• Jia Li (MSc - July 2004
  Thesis Title: Using Distinct Information Channels for a Hybrid Web Recommender System
  2 Publicatuions: EC-Web 2004, WebKDD 2004
  Last known position : MIS Graduate Student in USA.
• Alex Strilets (MSc - June 2003)
  Essay Title: From User Mideling to Reference Feedback: A survey of Information retrieval Techniques for Query Similarities.
  1 Publication: EWIS 2002.
  Last known position: private consultant, Edmonton.
• William Cheung (MSc - December 2002)
  Thesis Title: Frequent Pattern Mining Without Candidate Generation or Support Constraint
  1 Publication: IDEAS 2003.
  Last known position: Research Associate with Cardiology Division, University of Alberta
  
• Kevin Andrusky (NSERC Undergraduate Summer Scholarship Awardee 2002) Currently finishing his undergraduate degree at the University of Alberta.
  Title: Educational Software for Micromachines And Related Technologies
  Publications: 1 pending submission.
• Yaling Pei (NSERC Undergraduate Summer Scholarship Awardee 2002) Currently a graduate student at the University of Alberta.
  Title: Synthetic data generation for clustering analysis .
  Last known position: Walt Disney Internet Group, Disney Online Studios, Kelowna, Canada
• Andrew Foss (MSc - July 2002)
  Thesis Title: Automatic Categorical Data Clustering and Spatial Data Clustering by Consecutive Resolution Refinement
  3 Publications: SIAM DM 2001, PAKDD 2002, IEEE ICDM 2002
  Currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Alberta
  
• Maria-Luiza Antonie (MSc - July 2002)
  Thesis Title: Categorizing Digital Documents by Associating Content Features - [her graduation]
  4 Publications: MDM/KDD 2001, ADC 2002, MDM/KDD 2002, IEEE ICDM 2002
  Currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Alberta
  
• Yue Zhang (MSc - July 2002)
  Thesis Title: On the Use of CBIR in Image Mosaic Generation (Mosaicture)
  co-supervised with Dr. Nascimento
  Currently IT Business Solutions Manager at the University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
  1 Publication: IEEE ICME 2003
  
• Chi-Hoon Lee (MSc - June 2002)
  Thesis Title: Density-Based Clustering of Spatial Data in the Presence of Physical Constraints. .
  4 Publications: PAKDD 2002, IDEAS 2002, WCKKESC, IEEE ICDM 2002; Submissions: 1
  Currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Alberta
  
• Dana Mowat (Undergraduate Student Internship - Summer 2002) Title: Implementation of an On-line Faculty Bibliographical Database
• Weinan Wang (MSc - December 2001)
  Essay Title: Experiments with Data Clustering.
  3 Publications: SIAM DM 2001, PAKDD 2002, MIW at DEXA 2002.
  Currently at Amazon.com in Seattle, USA. Previously at CodeBaby and Yotta-Yotta in Edmonton, AB, Canada
  
• Kevin Andrusky (NSERC Undergraduate Summer Scholarship Awardee 2001). Currently finishing his undergraduate degree at the University of Alberta.
  Title: Educational Software for Micromachines And Related Technologies (eSMART)
  
• Ayman Ammoura (MSc - July 2001).
  Thesis Title: Datamining in an Immersed Virtual Environment Over a Network. - [his graduation]
  4 publications: ACM Crossroads, UIDIS'01, BNCOD'01, DAWAK'01
  Currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Alberta.
  
• Hang Cui (MSc - June 2001) .
  Thesis Title: Search Engine Result Re-Organization With Ontology.
  1 publication: DLIB at DEXA'01
  Currently at Benefitfocus.com in Charleston SC, USA. Previously at IO-Tek in Edmonton, AB, Canada
  
• Jun Luo (MSc - June 2001)
  Thesis Title: Towards a Flexible Interactive Web Usage Mining System.
  1 publication: IEEE ICALT'01
  Currently at Trovix, Mountain View, California, USA
  
• Yuan Ji (MSc - April 2001).
  Essay Title: Virtual Data Warehouse Design and Implementation.
  1 publication: BNCOD'01
  Currently at CelCorp Inc. in Edmonton, AB, Canada. Previously at iKNOWLEDGE Inc. in Edmonton, AB, Canada

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