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Take a look at my world coverage with regard to grad students and postdocs.

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I'm always looking for great students and postdocs in Data Mining, Machine Learning, Data management, and Social Networks & Media and Recommender Systems. 

Doctoral Students

  • Prithu Banerjee . Previous Degree: MTech, IIT Guwahati. 
  • Glenn Bevilacqua. Previous Degree. BSc, UBC.
  • Yuxi Feng. Previous Degree: BSc, Tsinghua University. 
  • Rudra Ranerjee Saha. Previous Degree: BSc, BUET. 
  • Ganesh Jawahar . (joint with Prof. Muhammad Abdul-Mageed (Linguistics and School of Information, UBC). Previous Degree: MS, IIIT Hyderabad. 
Master's Students

Farnoosh Hashemi. Previous Degree: BSc. Sharif U. of Tech., Iran. 

Glenn Bevilacqua. PhD Track. Previous degree: BSc, UBC. --> Transferred to PhD! 

 Postdoc 

  • Michael Simpson. 10/2018-. Prevous Degree: PhD, University of Victoria. 

    Former Postdocs

  • Ezequiel Smucler . 7/2017-6/2018, joint with Prof Ruben Zamar (Statistics, UBC). Previous Degree: PhD,  University of Buenos Aires. Current Position: Assistant Professor,  Universidad Torcuato Di Tella . 
  • Xin Huang . 2/2015-12/2015. Previous Degree: PhD, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. First and Current Position: Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University. 
  • Mohsen Jamali . 2012-2013. Previous degree: PhD, Simon Fraser. University. First Employment: Walmart Labs. Current Employment: LinkedIn.
  • Rui Chen . 2012-2013. Previous degree; PhD, Concordia University. First Employment: Hong Kong Baptist University. 
  • Smriti Bhagat . 2010-2011. Previous degree: PhD, Rutgers U. . First Employment: Technicolor . Current Employer: Facebook. 
  • Solmaz Kolahi . 2007-2010. Previous degrees: BSc, Sharif U. Of Tech. , Iran, MSc & PhD, U. of Toronto. Current Employment: Oracle Corp. 
  • Ganesh Ramesh (joint with Raymond Ng) . 2003-2005. Previous degrees: PhD, Univ. at Albany, SUNY. First Employment: Amazon . After a dizzying sequence of positions in various companies through   LinkedIn , Yahoo!, Microsoft, etc., currently with Apple. 
  • Fangqing Dong (at Concordia). 1992-94. First Employment: Seville Corp.

Graduated

Doctoral Students

Sharan Vaswani . December 2019. Previous degree: B. Tech. BITS, Pilani, India. First Position: Postdoctoral Fellow,  Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute ; Current Position:  Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Alberta . 

Pei Lee . December 2017. Previous degree: BSc, MSc, Renmin University , China. First Employment: LinkedIn. --> Didi Chuxing Technology Co.  --> Ali Baba (Senior Director). 

Wei Lu .  February 2015. Previous degree: BSc, Dual degree from Zhejiang U. , China and Simon Fraser Univ. (Transferred from MSc, Jan. 2012.) First Employment: LinkedIn.

Min Xie . February 2014. Previous degree: BSc, MSc, Renmin University , China. First Employment: Walmart Labs.

Amit Goyal . February 2013. Previous degree: B.Tech ., IIT – Bombay . First Employment: Twitter. Current Employment: Google. 

Hui (Wendy) Wang . December 2007. Previous degrees: BSc, Wuhan U., China, MSc, UBC. First Employment: Assistant Professor, Stevens Inst. of Tech. , NJ.

Shaofeng Bu (joint with Raymond Ng). Previous degrees: First Employment: Microsoft. 

Masters Students  

Gorisha Agrawal. July 2021. Previous Degree: BTech,  IIT (BHU) Varanasi. Current Position: Member of Technical Staff, Oracle. 

Sarah Habashi Elhammadi. August 2020. Current Position: Software Engineer, Galvanize . 

Alexandra Kim. August 2019. Previus Degree: BSc, ????, Uzbekiastan. Current Position: Amazon. 

Ritika Jain. August 2017. Previous Degree:... First Position: Ericsson Communications. Current Position: Amazon. 

Sampoorna Biswas. January 2017. Clir. Previous Degree: BSc. IIIT Delhi.

Yidan Liu. April 2016. Previous degree: BSc. Beijing Institute of Technology. China. 

Shanshan Chen. May 2015. Previous degree: BSc, Renmin University, China.  Current Employment: Google.

Sharan Vaswani. May 2015. Previous degree: B. Tech. BITS, Pilani, India. 

Vignesh Shankaranarayanan. April 2014. Previous degree: BE, Anna University, Chennai. 

Naresh Kumar Kolluju . 2013. Previous degree: B.Tech ., IIT – Bombay . First Employment: WurdlTech. Current Employment: Amazon.

Shailendra Agarwal. 2013. Previous degree: B.Tech ., IIT – Guwahati . First Employment: Amazon. 

Xueyao (Sophia) Liang. Previous degree: BSc, Zhejiang U ., China.
Tianyu Li. Previous degree: BSc, Zhejiang U. , China.

Ali Moosavi (joint with Rachel Pottinger) . Previous degree: BSc, Sharif U. Of Tech. , Iran. First Employment: Software Contractor for SAP.

Pooya Esfandiar . Previous degree: BSc, Sharif U. Of Tech. , Iran. First Employment:

Roman Yarovoy . First Employment: MDA Corp. .

Zeinab Abbassi . Previous degree: BSc, Sharif U. Of Tech. , Iran. Current position: PhD Student. Columbia U.

Ying Su. Previous degree: BSc, Tsinghua University , China. First Employment: Microsoft.

Shuan Wang (joint with Rachel Pottinger ). June 2007. First Employment: Microsoft.

Zheng (Jessica) Zhao. June 2005. First Employment: Amazon.

Bertrand Low. June 2007. First Employment: Ericsson R & D.

Terence Ho. June 2008. employed in Hong Kong.

Elaine Chang. June 2005. First Employment: Microsoft.

Ruth Zhang (Joint with Ruben Zamar , Dept. of Stat.). July 2004. First Employment: Statistics Canada.

Zhimin Chen. January 2004. First Employment: Microsoft Research.

Yan (Maryann) Zhao. December 2003. First employment: Moneris .

Graduated from Concordia

Doctoral Students

Hasan M. Jamil , Graduated March 1996. First employment: Mississippi State University. Current employment: Associate Professor, Wayne State University .

Iyer N. Subramanian Graduated April 1997. First employment: IBM Almaden Research Center Second employment: Tavant Technologies. Current employment: Facebook .

Nematollaah Shiri Graduated August 1997. Current employment: Associate Professor, Concordia University .

Master's Students

Chi-Hang Yim . March 1991. First employment: DHL Courier, Hong Kong.

Daniel A. Nonen . September 1993. First employment: CAE, Montreal.

Heather J. Johnstone . July 1994. First empoyment : Nortel, Ottawa.

Karima A. Ashraf . March 1996. First Employment: Nortel, Ottawa. Current Employment: GenBand .

Andrews Alanoly . December 1997. First employment: Planmatics , Montreal.

Ioana M. Ursu . NSERC Graduate Fellow, 1996-98. Intern, IBM Almaden Research Center, August 1998-January 1999. Graduated November 1999. First Employment: IBM Santa Teresa Lab, San Jose, CA.

Frederic Gingras . J.W. McConnell Memorial Fellow, 1996-98. Visiting Student, AT&T Labs, Research, Florham Park, NJ, January-April 1998. Graduated December 1999. First Employment: Bell Canada.

(Hong) Xiaohong Wang. Graduated May 2000.

Graduated from IIT - Bombay (Masters).

K. Satyanarayana Rao . January 2001.

P. Sailaja . April 2001. First Employment: Sun Microsystems, Bangalore, India.