Supervised Graduate Students
	Mi-Young Kim (Research Associate (since 2015): Information Extraction from Natural Language Text) [With Randy Goebel] Juliano Rabelo (Post-Doctoral Fellow (Since May 2018): Natural Language processing) [With Randy Goebel] Amine Trabelsi (Post-Doctoral Fellow (Since January 2019): Natural Language processing) Johannes Günther (Post-Doctoral Fellow (Since May 2018): RL and Machine adaptation) [with Patrick Pilarski] -------- Nawshad Farruque (PhD student (Since July 2016): Mental health Prediction from Text) Nouha Dziri (PhD student (Since September 2018): Automatic Response Generation) Michael Strobl (PhD student (Since December 2018): Knowledge Representation) Chenyang Huang (PhD student (Since September 2019): Automatic Response Generation) Fahim Hassan (PhD student (Since November 2019): Public health) [Co supervised with Dr. C. Nykiforuk] -------- Tanvir Sajeb (MSc student (Since March 2018): Question-Answering agent) Sheila Schoepp (MSc student (Since September 2017): Reinforcement Learning for adaptive machines) Parnian Yousefi (MSc student (Since March 2018): Explainable Machine Learning for Health application) Paritosh Goyal (MSc student (Since September 2018): Natural Language Processing) Abhishek Dhankar (MSc student (Since September 2018): outlier detection)
In Graduate Students' Supervisory Committe (current)
	Yifeng Liu, PhD candidate (Specialization: Question-Answering System for Biomedicine) Xiaomeng Wu, PhD candidate (Specialization: BioInformatics) since 2007 David Thue, PhD candidate (Specialization: Machine Learning) since 2007 Hoda Sepehri Rad, PhD candidate (Specialization: Database) Davoud Moulavi, PhD candidate (Specialization: Machine Learning) Mohsen Hajiloo, PhD candidate (Specialization: Machine Learning) Rouzbeh Maani, PhD candidate (Specialization: Computer Graphics) Katherine Chen, PhD candidate (Specialization: Machine Learning) Mohammad Kassem Salameh, PhD candidate (Natural Language Processing)
Previous Visiting Scholars
	Peng Cao From August 2011 to August 2013 (Visiting from Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China) 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)
PHDs I Served on the Advisory/Supervisory/Examining Committee
Houman Abbasian (2014), Sajib Barua (2014), Hai Phan Nhat (2013), Hugo Alatrista-Salas (2013), Alireza Farahaninia (2013), Imen Brahmi (2012), Gregory Lee (2012), David Chodos (2012), Hossein Azari (2012), Gregory Leighton (2011), Hadi Sabaa (2011), Chonghai Wang (2011), Dino Ienco (2010), Florent Masseglia (2009), Elsa Loekito (2009), Chi-Hoon Lee (2009), Gabriella Moise (2008), Chedy Raissi (2008), Marc Plantevit (2008), Ahmed El Sayed (2008), Hongqin Fan (2007), Pei Sun (2007), Hellassege Amithalal Caldera (2007), Arnaud Soulet (2006), Doru Tanasa (2005), Xingzhi Sun (2005), Tong Zheng (2003), Pablo Figuera (2003), Mohamed Mamoud Fawzi El-Ramly (2003), Paul A. Ferry (2001)

Former PDFs

Nathaniel Rossol (Post-Doctoral Fellow: Multimedia) [2015]

Sajib Barua (Post-Doctoral Fellow: Spatial Data Mining) [2014]

Mi-Young Kim (Post-Doctoral Fellow: Information Extraction from Natural Language Text)

Colin Bellinger (Post-Doctoral Fellow: Machine Learning)

Former Supervised Students

• Andy Wong (MSc.) - December 2020
  Thesis Title: Intelligent Machine Reliability with General Value Functions
  
• Hamman Samuel (PhD) - December 2020
  Thesis Title: On Trust, Privacy, and Misinformation in Health Social Media
  Last known position: Electronic Arts, Kitchener, Canada
• Mohammad Motallebi (MSc.) - September 2020
  Thesis Title: Explaining Decisions of Black-box Models using Association Rules Last known position: Huawei, Markham, Canada
• Mohammadmahdi Zafarmand (MSc.) - September 2020 [with Christine Largeron- Saint Etienne, France]
  Thesis Title: Community Detection and Discovery in Deterministic and Uncertain Networks
  Last known position: Amii, Edmonton, Canada
• Anandh Perumal Konar (MSc.) - June 2020
  Thesis Title: Conversational agent with common-sense: Responding to nonsensical statements
  Last known position: Amii, Edmonton, Canada
• Nitakshi Sood (MSc.) - June 2020
  Thesis Title: Building a Competitive Associative Classification Model
  Last known position: NTWIST, Edmonton, Canada
• Esha (MSc.) - November 2019
  Thesis Title: Harnessing tweets to get the Pulse of a City
  
• Mansour Saffar Mehrjardi (MSc.) - September 2019
  Thesis Title: Self-Attentional Models Application in Task-Oriented Dialogue Generation Systems
  Last known position: AltML, Edmonton, Canada
• Chenyang Huang (MSc.) - June 2019
  Thesis Title: Towards Emotion Intelligence in Neural Dialogue Systems
  Last known position: PhD candidate, University of Alberta
• Vinaykumar Kulkarni (MSc. Course-based) - April2019
  Essay Title: Analysis of Camera trap Images Using Deep learning for Ecological Study
  Last known position: OKAKI, Calgary, Canada
• Samuel Bushi (MSc.) - March 2019
  Thesis Title: Using Sentiment Analysis for Better Placement of Contextual Advertisements
  Last known position: Google, Waterloo, Canada
• Mohammad Riazi (MSc.) - January 2019
  Thesis Title: Detecting the Onset of Machine Failure Using Anomaly Detection Methods
  Last known position: AltML, Edmonton, Canada
• Chang Liu (MSc.) - January 2019 [with Christine Largeron- Saint Etienne, France]
  Thesis Title: Community Detection in Node Attributed Networks: A Late-fusion Approach
  Last known position: Intuit, Edmonton, Canada
• Nouha Dziri (MSc.) - August 2018
  Thesis Title: Response Generation For An Open-Ended Conversational Agent
  Last known position: PhD candidate, University of Alberta
• Amine Trabelsi (PhD) - July 2018
  Thesis Title: Unsupervised Mining and Summarization of Polarized Contentious Issues from Online Text
  Last known position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Alberta
• Shiva Zamani Gharaghooshi (MSc.) - August 2018 [with Christine Largeron- Saint Etienne, France]
  Thesis Title: Community Structure in Complex Networks
  Last known position: AltML, Edmonton, Canada
• Hayden Barker (MSc. Course-Based) - April 2018
  Essay Title: Data Mining for Cyber Security Education
  Last known position: ,
• Chi Zhang (MSc.) - March 2018
  Thesis Title: Complex Network Analysis with Edge Uncertainty
  Last Known position: Google, Beijing, China
• Reza Sobhannejad (MSc.) - January 2018
  Thesis Title: Evaluating Image Training Systems for Medical Students
  Last known position: Varafy, Edmonton, Canada
• Amir Hossein Faghih Dinevari (MSc.) - March 2017
  Thesis Title: Towards the Implementation of an Intelligent Software Agent for the Elderly
  Last known position: Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo), Edmonton, Canada
• Ren Wang (MSc.) - Matrch 2017
  Thesis Title: sequence Based Approaches to Course Recommender Systems
  Last known position: Accenture, Toronto, Canada
• Sankalp Prabhakar (MSc.) - September 2016
  Thesis Title: Reciprocal Recommendation System and Formation of Learning Groups in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
  Last known position: Amii, Edmonton, Canada
• Stuart Johnson (MSc.) - September 2016
  Thesis Title: Custom Feedback Selection for Intelligent Tutoring Systems in Ill-Defined Domains
  Last known position: AltML, Edmonton, Canada
• Mohomed Shazan Mohomed Jabbar (MSc.) - August 2016
  Thesis Title: Discovering Spatial Patterns using Statistically Significant Dependencies
  Last known position: Amii, Edmonton, Canada
• Farrukh Ahmed (MSc.) - August 2016
  Thesis Title: Advantage of Integration in Big Data: Feature Generation in Multi-Relational Databases for Imbalanced Learning
  Last known position: IBM, Toronto, Canada
• Behdad Bakhshinategh (MSc.) - August 2016
  Thesis Title: Design of a Course Recommender System as an Application of Collecting Graduate Attributes
  Last known position: Google, Waterloo, Canada
• Koosha Golmohammadi (PhD) - September 2016
  Thesis Title: Time Series Contextual Anomaly Detection for Detecting Stock Market Manipulation
  Last Known position: Manulife, Toronto, Canada
• Reihaneh Rabbany khorasgani (PhD) - September 2016
  Thesis Title: Modular Structure of Complex Networks
  Last known position: Assistant Professor, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
• Wessam Gad El-Rab (PhD) - December 2015
  Thesis Title: Clinical Practice Guideline Formalization: Translating Clinical Practice Guidelines to Computer Interpretable Guidelines
  Last known position: TensorGraph., Edmonton, Canada
• Mansoureh Takaffoli (PhD) - September 2015
  Thesis Title: Community Identification, Evolution and Prediction in Dynamic Social Networks
  Last Known position: Amazon, Vancouver, Canada
• Ameneh Gholipour Shahraki (MSc.) - September 2015
  Thesis Title: Emotion Mining from Text
  Last known position: Yelp, San Francisco, USA
• Ali Yadollahi (MSc.) - September 2015
  Thesis Title: Polarity Classification of Reviews by Expanding a Preliminary Lexicon
  Last known position: Yelp, San Francisco, USA
• Baoliang Wang (MSc.) - August 2014
  Thesis Title: Automatic Animal Species Identification Based on Camera Trapping Data
  Last known position: North West group, Calgary, Canada
• Jundong Li (MSc.) - July 2014
  Thesis Title: Statistically Significant Dependencies for Spatial Co-location Pattern Mining and Classification Association Rule Discovery
  Last known position: PhD candidate at Arizona State University, USA
• Afra Abnar (MSc.) - March 2014
  Thesis Title: Structural Role Mining in Social Networks
  Last Known position: SAP, Vancouver, Canada
• Kevin Quinn (MSc.) - March 2014
  Thesis Title: ANA: Automated Nursing Agent - [his graduation]
  Last Known position: Amazon, Seattle, USA
• Saeed Mohajeri (MSc.) - September 2013 - Co-supervised with Davood Rafiei
  Thesis Title: BubbleNet: An Interactive Interface for Retrieving Documents
  1 Publication: BIBM Last Known position: Facebook, USA
• Jing Zhang (MSc.) - September 2012
  Thesis Title: On the Applicationm of Multi-Class Classification in Physical Therapy Recommandation - [his graduation]
  3 Publications: DATH, ISSLS, medical journal Last Known position: Kiribatu Labs, Edmonton, Alberta
• Xiaoxiao Li (MSc.) - September 2012
  Thesis Title: Text Document Topical Recursive Clustering and Automatic Labeling of a Hierarchy of Document Clusters - [her graduation]
  1 Publication: PAKDD
  Last Known Position: Alberta Innovates Centre for Machine Learning, Edmonton, Canada
• Chaman Thapa (MSc.) - August 2012 - Co-supervised with Davood Rafiei Thesis Title: Classifying Websites into Non-Topical Categories
  1 Publication: Dawak
  
• Aibek Adilmagambetov (MSc.) - August 2012
  Thesis Title: Discovering Co-Location Patterns and Rules in Uncertain Spatial Datasets
  1 Publication: Dawak
  
• Justin Fagnan (MSc.) - March 2012
  Thesis Title: Community Mining: From Discovery to Evaluation and Visualization
  6 Publications: ASONAM, IV, CASON, ICWSM, ASNA, journal
  Last Known Position: Microsoft, Seattle, Washington, USA
• Hamman Samuel (MSc.) - September 2011
  Thesis Title: Content Management for Online Health Advise Sharing
  5 Publications: IHI, ICSE, C* Conference, BHI
  
• Xiaoyu Shi (MSc.) - September 2011- Co-Supervised by Bryan Yu Hu
  Thesis Title: A Fast Circuit Similarity-based Placement Engine for Field Programmable Gate Arrays
  2 Publications: FPT, ISQED
  Last Known Position: Microsoft, Seattle, Washington, USA
• Metanat HooshSadat (MSc.) - September 2011
  Thesis Title: Classification and Sequential Pattern Mining from Uncertain Datasets
  2 Publications: PAKDD, FLINS
  Last Known Position: Intelliwave Technologies, Edmonton, Canada.
• Farzad Sangi (MSc.) - August 2011
  Thesis Title: Ranking Entities in Hetegogeneous Multiple Relation Social Networks Using Random Walks
  4 Publications:CASON, ICWSM, ASNA, journal
  Last Known Position: Microsoft, Seattle, Washington, USA
• 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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