supervision
If you are a prospective applicant for graduate school seeking my support, please read the instructions at the bottom.
Current students
- Natalie Hervieux (MSc)
- Emily Vandermeer (MSc)
Graduated students
| 2025 | Peiran Yao (PhD) |
| Negin Khalifat (MSc) | |
| 2024 | Kostyantyn Guzhva (MSc) |
| Hayat Sultan Mohammed (MSc, co-supervised with Mario Nascimento) | |
| Arif Shariar (MSc) | |
| Anindita Kundu (MSc) | |
| 2023 | Graham Alexander (MSc) |
| 2022 | Arad Ashrafi (MSc) |
| 2021 | Varun Ranganathan (MSc); co-founder of Formic AI |
| Shruthi Ravishankar (MSc Course-based) | |
| Ali Hejazizo (MSc, co-supervised with Lili Mou) | |
| André dos Santos (post-doc) | |
| 2020 | Tobias Renwick (MSc) |
| 2019 | Daniel Caminhas (MSc) |
| Erin Macdonald (MSc) | |
| Weite Ni (MSc) | |
| Candy Pang (PhD, co-supervised with Abram Hindle); Assistant Professor at Grant McEwan | |
| 2018 | Peng Xu (MSc) |
| Matteo Cannaviccio (PhD, co-supervised with Paolo Merialdo); Machine Learning Engineer at Diffbot | |
| Zhaochen Guo (PhD); Machine Learning Engineer at Diffbot | |
| 2016 | Hoda Sepheri Rad (PhD) |
| 2015 | Filipe Mesquita (PhD); VP Research at Diffbot |
| 2014 | Yoones Shekavat (post-doc); Associate Professor, Tabriz Art University, Iran |
| 2013 | Ivanilton Polato (Visiting PhD); Associate Professor, Federal Technological University of Parana, Brazil |
| 2012 | Ajay Anandan (MSc) |
| 2011 | Gregory Leighton (PhD) |
| Stephanie Husby (MSc) | |
| Maryam Hasan (MSc, co-supervised with Eleni Stroulia) | |
| Diego Serrano (MSc, co-supervised with Eleni Stroulia) | |
| Hua He (MSc, co-supervised with Greg Kondrak) | |
| 2009 | Paolo Cappellari (post-doc, 2009) |
| Jagoda Walny (MSc) |
For grad school applicants
Here are the instructions on how to apply, with deadlines (set by the university).
After you complete your application, send me an email with the following:
- Your application number, your CV and your unofficial transcript.
- A short (2-3 paragraphs) description of your best project using machine learning, information retrieval, or natural language processing, addressing the following questions:
- Which methods did you use and how did you choose them?
- Which data did you use? How large was it? How did you obtain it?
- What were the results and what do they mean?
- What did you learn from completing the project?
- A detailed review of one of my papers following the how to read a paper method. Your review should contain separate sections with the following information:
- The “5Cc”;
- A summary of the paper;
- Questions for the authors.
- If you are applying for the PhD program, please send me your best paper so far and your statement of purpose describing what you want to do and why.