Research Students

Last batch of Research Students Supervised while still at the University of Ottawa

From left to right:
Back: Shiven (Ph.D.), Ameya (M.Sc.), Yue (M.Sc.), Colin (Ph.D.)
Front: Adrian (Ph.D.), Saeed (Ph.D., expected), Vincent (M.Sc.)

Supervised Students while on Adjunct Status

• Richard Moulton, University of Ottawa
  Degree Sought: M.Sc.
  Co-Supervisor: Herna Viktor
  Areas of interest: Anomaly Detection by learning the subconceptual layer in data streams
  Expected Date of Completion: 2018
  
  
• Farzan Nowruzi, University of Ottawa
  Degree Sought: Ph.D.
  Co-Supervisor: Robert Laganiere
  Areas of interest: Computer Vision applied to self-driving cars
  Expected Date of Completion: 2020
  
  
• Saeed Rahmani, University of Ottawa
  Degree Sought: Ph.D.
  Co-Supervisor: Iluju Kiringa
  Areas of interest: Anomaly Detection in Network Traffic (with Ciena)
  Expected Date of Completion: 2019
  
  

Previously Supervised Students

• Yue Dong, University of Ottawa
  Degree Sought: M.Sc.
  Co-Supervisor: Vladimir Pestov
  Areas of interest: Machine Learning
  Expected Date of Completion: 2016
  
  
• Adrian Taylor, University of Ottawa
  Degree Sought: Ph.D.
  Co-Supervisor: Sylvain Leblanc, Royal Military College
  Areas of interest: Anomaly Detection on Vehicle Control Buses
  Expected Date of Completion: 2016
  
  
• Ameya Mohan Malondkar, University of Ottawa
  Degree Sought: M.Sc.
  Co-Supervisor: Iluju Kiringa
  Areas of interest: Machine Learning
  Expected Date of Completion: 2015
  
  
• Vincent Barnabe-Lortie, University of Ottawa
  Degree Sought: M.Sc.
  Areas of interest: Machine Learning
  Expected Date of Completion: 2015
  
  
• Colin Bellinger, University of Ottawa
  Degree Sought: Ph.D.
  Areas of interest: Machine Learning, One Class Learning for time series
  Expected Date of Completion: 2015
  
  
• Shiven Sharma, University of Ottawa
  Degree Sought: Ph.D.
  Areas of interest: Machine Learning, concept shift
  Expected Date of Completion: 2015
  
  
• Farid Seifi, University of Ottawa
  Degree Sought: Ph.D.
  Co-Supervisors: Stan Matwin, Chris Drummond.
  Areas of interest: Machine Learning, Bayesian Networks
  Date of Completion: March 2015
  
  
• Benjamin Wang, University of Ottawa
  Degree Sought: Ph.D.
  Co-Supervisors: Stan Matwin.
  Areas of interest: Machine Learning, Class Imbalance, SVMs, Boosting
  Date of Completion: March 2015
  
  
• Mohamed Ghadie, University of Ottawa
  Degree Sought: M.Sc.
  Co-Supervisors: Ted Perkins
  Areas of interest: Reconstructing the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Differentiation Tree from Gene Expression Data
  Date of Completion: December 2014
  
  
• Houman Abbasian, University of Ottawa
  Degree Sought: Ph.D.
  Co-Supervisors: Stan Matwin, Chris Drummond.
  Areas of interest: Inner Ensembles: Using Ensemble Methods in Learning Step
  Expected Date of Completion: 2014
  
  
• Xuan Liu, University of Ottawa
  Degree Sought: M.Sc.
  Co-Supervisors: Stan Matwin
  Area of interest: An Ensemble Method on Hadoop MapReduce
  Expected Date of Completion: 2014
  
  
• Hang Shao, University of Ottawa
  Degree Sought: M.Sc.
  Areas of interest: Extreme Learning Machines, Outlier Detection
  Date of Completion: 2013
  
  
• William Klement, University of Ottawa
  Degree Sought: Ph.D.
  Co-Supervisor: Stan Matwin.
  Areas of interest: Machine Learning Evaluation: ROC-Spaces
  Date of Completion: Fall 2010.
  
  
• Guichong Li, University of Ottawa
  Degree Sought: Ph.D.
  Areas of interest: Instance Selection, Data Sampling
  Date of Completion: Winter 2010.
  
  
  
• Martin Roussel, University of Ottawa
  Degree Sought: M.Sc. (Project)
  Areas of interest: Data-Mining in the Industrial Field
  Date of Completion: December 2009
  
  
• Lisa Gaudette, University of Ottawa
  Degree Sought: M.Sc.
  Areas of interest: Sentiment Analysis
  Date of Completion: December 2009
  
  
• Luc Beaudoin, University of Ottawa
  Degree Sought: M.Sc.
  Co-Supervisor: Stan Matwin.
  Areas of interest: Machine Learning
  Expected Date of Completion: October 2009
  
  
• Marcel Wirantono, University of Ottawa
  Degree Sought: M.Sc.
  Co-Supervisor: Caroline Barriere.
  Areas of interest: Machine Learning, Classification by Document Genre
  Date of Completion: December 2008.
  
  
• Wenhui Li, University of Ottawa
  Degree Sought: M.Sc.
  Areas of interest: Machine Learning
  Expected Date of Completion: 2008.
  
  
• Christina George, University of Ottawa
  Degree Sought: M.Sc.
  Areas of interest: Natural Language Processing
  Expected Date of Completion: 2006.
  
  
• Benoit Essaimbre, University of Ottawa (To be Started September 2003)
  Degree Sought: M.Sc.
  Areas of interest: Natural Language Processing, Internal Representations
  Expected Date of Completion: 2005.
  
  
• Taeho Jo , University of Ottawa
  Degree Sought: Ph.D.
  Areas of interest: Text Classification, Machine Learning
  Expected Date of Completion: 2006.
  
  
• Olivier Henchiri, University of Ottawa.
  Degree Sought: Master's of Computer Science
  Areas of interest: Machine Learning, Computer Virus Detection.
  Expected Date of Completion: 2006.
  
  
• Reuben Smith, University of Ottawa
  Degree: M.Sc.
  Title of Thesis: Correlating Intrusion Alerts with Unsupervised Learning
  Date of Completion: March 2006.
  
  
• Benjamin Wang, University of Ottawa
  Degree: M.Sc.
  Title of Thesis: Boosting Support Vector Machines
  Date of Completion: January 2006.
  
  
• Quintin Armour, University of Ottawa
  Degree Sought: M.Sc.
  Co-Supervisor: Stan Matwin.
  Areas of interest: NLP, Machine Learning
  Expected Date of Completion: 2005.
  
  
• Jeff Souza, University of Ottawa
  Degree Sought: Ph.D.
  Co-Supervisor: Stan Matwin.
  Areas of interest: Software Patterns for Data Mining
  Date of Completion: 2005.
  
  
• Hui Li, University of Ottawa
  Degree Sought: Master of Computer Science
  Co-Supervisor: Caroline Barriere.
  Areas of interest: The automatic translation of Locative Propositions between English and Chinese
  Date of Completion: Summer 2004.
  
  
• Marvin Zaluski, University of Ottawa.
  Degree Sought: Master of Computer Science
  Co-Supervisor: Stan Matwin.
  Areas of interest: Automation of Trouble-Shooting Procedures in Airbus Airplanes.
  Date of Completion: Summer 2003.
  
  
• Lois Rigouste, University of Ottawa.
  Degree Sought: Master of Computer Science
  Co-Supervisor: Stan Szpakowicz.
  Areas of interest: Natural Language Processing, Text Summarization, Machine Learning.
  Date of Completion: Summer 2003.
  
  
• Wangzhong Lu, Dalhousie University (external supervisor).
  Degree Awarded: Master of Computer Science
  Co-Supervisors: Evangelos Milios, Jeannette Janssen (Math)
  Title of Thesis: Similarity of scientific papers based on their references.
  Abstract , Tech Report based on the Thesis .
  Date of Thesis Defence: Summer 2001
  
  
• Andrew Estabrooks, Dalhousie University.
  Degree Awarded: Master of Computer Science
  Title of Thesis: A Combination Scheme for Inductive Learning from Imbalanced Data Sets.
  Abstract , Thesis (in MS-Word Format).
  Date of Thesis Defence: June 8, 2000.
  Other Committee Members: Qigang Gao, Louise Spiteri (Library Science)

Previously Supervised Undergraduate Students

• Sarah Hunter, Translation of Keywords from English to French, Fall 2005, Honours Thesis, csi4900.
• Lamia Guennoun and Didier Boyayo, Analyse de la traduction de L'Arabe vers l'Anglais, Fall 2005, Honours Thesis, csi4900.
• Alexandre Berlinguette and Pascal Leblanc , A Robust Translator of Locative Prepositions, Winter 2004, Honours Thesis, csi4900
• Iain Heggie , On the way to Automating the translation of 'in', 'on' and 'at' from English to French, Fall 2003, Honours thesis, csi4900
• Guillaume Larose , Hockey Game Simulator, Fall 2003, Honours Thesis, csi4900
• Philippe Suhubiette , A Linguistic Study of Topological Prepositions, Winter 2003, Honours Thesis, csi4900

Other Research Student/Assistant/Collaborations:

• Chris Drummond, University of Ottawa.
  Title: Postdoctoral Fellow
  Areas of interest: Machine Learning
  
  
• Shaju Stephen, University of Ottawa.
  Degree Sought: Bachelor of Software Engineering
  Areas of interest: Class Imbalance Issues
  
  
• Terry Copeck, University of Ottawa.
  Date of Collaboration: Winter 2001.
  Title of Project: Text Summarization as Controlled Search
  
  
• Todd Eavis, Dalhousie University.
  Date of Collaboration: Fall 1999/Winter 2000.
  Title of Project: A recognition-Based Alternative to Standard MLP.
  
  
• Russel Sears, Ohio State University.
  Date of Supervision: Summer 1999.
  Areas of interest: Learning in Imbalanced Data Sets applied to Drug Design.
  

Graduate Students whose Committees I served on:

• Mohak Shah, University of Ottawa
  Title of Ph.D. Thesis:
  Date: April, 2006
  
  
• Yu Chen, McGill University
  Title of M.Sc. Thesis: Datamining in Relational Database with Probabilistic Relational Models
  Date: March, 2006
  
  
• Mohamed Aoun-Allah, Universite Laval
  Title of Ph.D. Thesis: Le Forage Distribue des Donnees: Une approche basee sur l'aggregation et le raffinement de modeles
  Date: February, 2006
  
  
• Hongyu Guo, University of Ottawa
  Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam: Machine Learning Option
  Date: January, 2006
  
  
• Svetlana Kiritchenko, University of Ottawa
  Title of Ph.D. Thesis: Hierarchical Text Categorization and its Applications to Bioinformatics
  Date: December, 2005
  
  
• Khaled Hashem, Carleton University
  Title of Ph.D. Thesis Proposal: Tutorial Systems using LA
  Date: November, 2005
  
  
• Major Louis Massey, Royal Military College
  Title of Ph.D. Thesis: Auto-Organisation de Collections Textuelles avec les reseaux de neurons a resonance adaptive
  Date: Octobre, 2005
  
  
• Andrew Vardy, Carleton University
  Title of Ph.D. Thesis: Visual Homing in Insects and Robots though Cellular Vision
  Date: April, 2005
  
  
• Matthieu Hermet, University of Ottawa
  Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam: Machine Learning Statistical NLP Option
  Date: September 2004
  
  
• Hongyu Guo, University of Ottawa
  Title of Master's Thesis: Multiple Classifier Combination through Ensemble and Data Generation
  Date: Summer 2004
  
  
• Alexander Tulai, Carleton University
  Title of Ph.D. Thesis: Emergence and Evolution of Computational Habitats
  Date: Summer 2004
  
  
• Souhail Zaki, University of Ottawa
  Title of Master's Thesis: Investigating Semantic Similarity in Corpus
  Date: Winter 2004
  
  
• Magdalena Widlak, University of Ottawa
  Title of Master's Thesis: Influence of Word Sense Disambiguation on Text Classification
  Date: Fall 2003
  
  
• Sylvain Letourneau, University of Ottawa
  Title of Ph.D. Thesis: Identification of Attribute Interactions and
  Generation of Globally Relevant Continuous Features in Machine Learning
  Date: Summer 2003
  
  
• Vivi Nastase, University of Ottawa
  Title of Ph.D. Thesis:
  Date: Summer 2003
  
  
• Alexander Tulai, Carleton University
  Ph.D. Thesis Proposal Defence:
  Date: July 31 2003
  
  
• Andrew Vardy, Carleton University
  Ph.D. Thesis Proposal Defence: Visual Homing in Insects and Robots though Cellular Vision
  Date: June 3, 2003
  
  
• Fernanda Caropreso, University of Ottawa
  Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam: Machine Learning Option
  Date: May 2003
  
  
• Taeho Jo, University of Ottawa
  Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam: Machine Learning Option
  Date: April 2003
  
  
• Mohak Shah, University of Ottawa
  Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam: Machine Learning Option
  Date: April 2003
  
  
• Marina Sokolva, University of Ottawa
  Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam: Machine Learning Option
  Date: April 2003
  
  
• Jelber Sayyad, University of Ottawa
  Topic of Ph.D. Thesis: Supporting Software Maintenance by Mining Software Update Records
  Date of Thesis Defence: April 7, 2003.
  Other Committee Members: Stan Matwin (Co-chair), Tim Lethbridge (Co-chair), Liam Peyton.
  
  
• Grant Gayed, Carleton University
  Topic of Master's Thesis: A Model for the Application of Arbitrary Object-Oriented Refactorings
  Date of Thesis Defence: July 29, 2002.
  Other Committee Members: Dwight Deugo (Chair), M. Lanthier.
  
  
• James Moody, Carleton University
  Topic of Master's Thesis: Software Patterns.
  Date of Thesis Defence: April 22, 2002.
  Other Committee Members: Dwight Deugo (Chair), Michael Weiss.
  
  
• Marina Sokolova, University of Ottawa
  Title of Master's Thesis: Decision List Machines.
  Date of Thesis Defence: Fall, 2001.
  Other Committee Members: Mario Marchand (Chair).
  
  
• Lee Graham, Carleton University
  Title of Master's Thesis: A Complete Implementation of John Holland's Echo Nodel for Complex Adaptive Systems
  Date of Thesis Defence: September 7, 2001.
  Other Committee Members: Franz Oppacher (Chair).
  
  
• Svetlana Kiritchenko, University of Ottawa
  Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam: Machine Learning Option
  
  
• Andrew Vardy, University of Ottawa
  Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam: Machine Learning Option
  
  
• Mao Tan, Dalhousie University.
  Title of the Master's Thesis: ``A neural network method for generic edge feature classification".
  Year: 2000.
  Other Committee Members: Qigang Gao (Chair), Evangelos Milios.
  
  
• Dahai Zhang, Dalhousie University.
  Title of Master's Project: Design and Development of a Software Tool for the Elicitation of PFM Tradeoffs between Criteria.
  Date of Project Defence: February 24, 2000.
  Other Committee Members: Ernst Grundke (Chair), Jonathan Barzilai.

Older Lab Photos

From left to right: Houman (Ph.D., 2014), Colin (Ph.D, expected), Farid (Ph.D. expected), Benjamin (Ph.D., expected), Hang (M.Sc., 2013), Xuan Liu (M.Sc., 2014), Nathalie, Mohamed (M.Sc., expected)

From left to right: Benjamin (Ph.D., expected), Guichong (Ph.D, 2010), Houman (Ph.D. expected), Nathalie, Farid (Ph.D., expected), Colin (Ph.D. expected), Shiven (Ph.D. expected)

From left to right: Guichong (Ph.D, 2010), Lisa (M.Sc., 2010), Nathalie, William (Ph.D., 2010)

From left to right: Hui (M.Sc., 2004), Olivier (M.Sc.,2006), Reuben (M.Sc., 2006), Taeho (Ph.D., 2006), Marcel (M.Sc., 2008), Wenhui (M.Sc., 2008)

Top (left to right): Taeho (Ph.D., 2006), Hui (M.Sc., 2004), Quintin (M.Sc., 2005), Benoit (M.Sc., 2006), Benjamin (M.Sc., 2006)
Bottom (left to right): Wenhui (M.Sc., 2008), Nathalie, Christina (M.Sc., 2006)