Our Team

Meet the talented researchers, students, and collaborators driving innovation in our lab

faculty

Dr. Farhana H. Zulkernine
Dr. Farhana H. Zulkernine
Lab Director & Professor

postdocs

There are currently no postdocs in this group.

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phD

Jing Tao
Jing Tao
PhD Student • Since Jan 2025

Topic of Study

Goal oriented dialogue system for information extraction in remote service provisioning.

Nafiz Sadman
Nafiz Sadman
PhD Student • Since Sep 2024

Topic of Study

Explainable AI and rule extraction from multimodal image and text data.

Farida Mohamad
Farida Mohamad
PhD Student • Since Jan 2024

Topic of Study

Remote monitoring of vital signs and predictive and prescriptive medical data analytics.

Aman Anand
Aman Anand
PhD Student • Since Sep 2023

Topic of Study

Situation aware human activity monitoring.

Amir Eskandari
Amir Eskandari
PhD Student • Since Sep 2023

Topic of Study

Multimodal graph data analytics for personalized conversational AI in human computer interation.

Elyas Rashno
Elyas Rashno
PhD Student • Since Sep 2022

Topic of Study

Multimodal streaming data management and analysis for Triage-bot.

Yuhao Chen
Yuhao Chen
PhD Student • Since Sep 2021

Topic of Study

Using deep learning for knowledge extraction from unstructure text data.

masters

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undergrad

There are currently no undergrad in this group.

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Alumni

Our previous members and postdoctoral fellows

postdocs

Hasan Zafari
2018-2022

Topic of Study

Using Advanced Analytics to Understand PTSD (UAAUP)

Funding

MitacsCIMVHRIBMPfizer
Haruna Isah
2017-2019

Topic of Study

A Multilevel Streaming Data Analytics Infrastructure for Predictive Analytics

Funding

SOSCIPGnowitIBM

phD

Ahmed Harby
2020-2025

Topic of Study

Distributed cloud-based knowledge graph architecture, management and querying.

Mojtaba Moattari
2020-2024 • Incomplete

Topic of Study

Machine cognition using multimodal asynchronous data stream processing and concept learning.

Donghao Qiao
2019-2023

Topic of Study

Pattern learning from video data for autonomous vehicles.

Sazia Mahfuz
2017-2023

Topic of Study

A smart data profiling framework.

Ftoon Kedwan
2017-2019 • Incomplete

Topic of Study

A hybrid knowledge management doctoral student framework.

Co-supervised
Tarek Ahmed
2016 • Incomplete

Topic of Study

Proactive autoscaling of resources for steam processing engines in the cloud.

Co-supervised
Rizwan Mian
2012-2014

Topic of Study

Determining cost-effective resource configurations for executing data-intensive workloads in public clouds.

Co-supervised

masters

Jacqueline Chan
2021-2025

Topic of Study

Authentication and password based security.

Nafiz Sadman
2022-2024

Topic of Study

Security and authentication of user data for Triage-bot.

Jackson Cai
2023-2024

Topic of Study

Analysis of medical structured and unstructured data for disease analysis and prediction.

Zihan Zhang
2023-2024

Topic of Study

Analyzing radar point cloud data and video data for human activity recognition.

Drishti Sharma
2023-2024

Topic of Study

Developing a dialogue system for a chat bot for medical triage system.

Vidhi Kokel
2022-2023

Topic of Study

Analysis of medical structured and unstructured data for a study on Osteoarthritis funded by Pfizer.

MEng
Ruikang Luo
2021-2023

Topic of Study

Automatic caption generation using multimodal video and text data.

Co-supervised
Ian Pepin
2021-2023

Topic of Study

Security and privacy for medical informatics on the cloud.

Co-supervised
Sam Baranek
2021-2023

Topic of Study

Facial image analytics for identity verification and emotion recognition.

Co-supervised
Haoran Qi
2021-2023

Topic of Study

Human activity recognition using wearable sensors.

Vignesh Rao
2021-2023

Topic of Study

Autonomous Vehicular Sensor Data Analytics.

Co-supervised
Austin Carthy
2021-2023

Topic of Study

Detecting cyber threats in emails.

Zili Lou
2020-2023

Topic of Study

Email categorization and automatic email response composition.

Calen Irwin
2020-2023

Topic of Study

Vehicular sensor data classification for anomaly detection.

Martin Woo
2020-2022

Topic of Study

Hierarchical clustering of data patterns from streaming IoT sensors for human activity recognition.

Amtul Haq Ayesha
2020-2022

Topic of Study

Video and sensor based biometric data measurement using AI techniques.

Karen Batch
2019-2022

Topic of Study

Annotated radiology text reports analytics for studying cancer metastasis.

Co-supervised
Yuhao Chen
2019-2021

Topic of Study

A Three-phase Intelligent Question answering system.

Isaac Hogan
2019-2021

Topic of Study

Activity recognition from skeleton video data.

Co-supervised
Prithila Angkan
Summer 2020

Topic of Study

Human activity recognition using video of skeleton data.

MEng
Junaid Charaniya
2019-2020

Topic of Study

Clustering streaming IoT human activity data from sensor devices.

MEng
Mohammed Hamadah Gasmallah
2018-2020

Topic of Study

An Analysis of Motion Smoothness in Video Object Detection.

Co-supervised
Jason Lam
2018-2020

Topic of Study

Deep Learning for Legal and Medical Text Analytics.

Tariq Abughofa
2016-2018

Topic of Study

Dynamic graph processing with streaming data.

Chanderdhar Sharma
2017-2018

Topic of Study

Unstructured text mining and topic modeling.

Niventhini Indrajith
2017-2018

Topic of Study

Text mining for disease diagnostic.

Mandeep Kandhari
2017-2018

Topic of Study

An intelligent human-machine voice interaction system.

MEng
Dharmitha Ajerla
2017-2018

Topic of Study

An edge computing framework for fall detection using wearable sensor devices.

Dev Shah
2017-2018

Topic of Study

Stock market prediction.

Hadeel Alghamdi
2017-2018

Topic of Study

Distributed DBMS in WINGS workflow management system.

Co-supervised
Kireet Bhat
2016-2017

Topic of Study

Extending Spark for cloud-based big data analytics.

Azadeh Eftekhari
2013-2016

Topic of Study

Binary: A framework for Big data Integration for ad-hoc Querying.

Co-supervised
Mastoureh Hasanezhad
2012-2014

Topic of Study

Managing long-running queries using query progress.

Co-supervised

undergrad

Alan Chen
2024-2025

Topic of Study

Skeleton-based Human Activity Recognition.

Wanting Huang
2024-2025

Topic of Study

A personalized conversational bot leveraged by a backend storage infrastructure.

Zhimu Wang
2023-2024

Topic of Study

Comparing open source large language models in summarizing medical text data.

Ruoshi Xia
2023-2024

Topic of Study

Human activity recognition using video data.

Josh Otten
2022-2023

Topic of Study

Face recognition and advanced feature extraction from video data.

Jing Tao
2022-2023

Topic of Study

Medical data analytics with advanced annotation tools.

Somiona Tian
2022-2023

Topic of Study

Medical data analytics with advanced annotation tools.

Wanqing Li
2022-2023

Topic of Study

Emotion detection from video data.

Feiting Yang
2022-2023

Topic of Study

Noise reduction from rPPG data for face video based vital sign measurement.