Mahdis and Christine Birthday, Farinam Thanksgiving, CFI+ORF Grant Award, June 5, 2023. From Left Standing: Yoges, Reza, Gabriel, Hamed, Karan, Zahra, Roonak, Mahshad, Mohammad, Farinam, Hamed, Delaram. From Left Sitting: Christine, Arman, Nazia, Soroush, Mahdis, Hossein
Faculty
By Mahdi Bashari
Hossein Fani [Sloth]
July 2020 - Now: Social Information Retrieval
Postdoc & Visiting Scholar & Youth Outreach
Mahdis Saeedi (PhD, Research Associate) [Flamingo]
July 2021 - Now: Survey on Team Formation Algorithms
Pouya Saniee (Grade 11) [White Rhinoceros]
Assumption College Catholic High School
July 2024 - Now: LADy: Customer Feedback Analytics from Unsolicited Resources
Ph.D.
Zahra Taherikhonakdar [Dog]
Sept. 2020 - Now: Synergistic Balance of Social Context for Information Retrieval
M.Sc.
Sepide Ahmadian [Horse]
Sept. 2024 - Future: Query Refinement (Reformulation)
Kap Thang [Sea Goat (Cappricorn)]
May 2024 - Now: OpeNTF: Spatial Team Formation
Md Jamil Ahmed [Cat Footballer]
Sept. 2023 - Now: OpeNTF: Spatial Team Formation
B.Sc.
Christine Wong (Outstanding Scholar) [Cardinal]
Jan. 2023 - Now: LADy: Customer Feedback Analytics from Unsolicited Resources
Silver Medalist at UWill Discover 2023 🥈
Sept. 2022 - Dec. 2022: SEERa: User Community Prediction for Social IR
Parmida Khashayar [Roe Deer (Bambi)]
July 2024 - Now: LADy: Customer Feedback Analytics from Unsolicited Resources
Alumni
Reza Barzgar [Cat]
Jan. 2023 - Nov. 2024: Adaptive Loss-based Curricula for Neural Team Recommendation
Hamed Waezi (Vector Scholarship in AI, M.Sc.) [Otter]
Jan. 2023 - Sept. 2024: Osprey🪶: Early Detection of Online Grooming with Conversational Features and Backtranslation Data Augmentation
Delaram Rajaei (M.Sc.) [Nokhodchi (Ginger Cat)]
May 2023 - Aug. 2024: No Query Left Behind: Query Refinement via Backtranslation
Roonak Moasses (M.Sc.) [Penguin]
Sept. 2021 - June 2024: vivafemme: Mitigating Gender Bias in Neural Team Recommendation via Female-Advocate Loss Regularization
Edwin Paul (B.Sc.) [Panda]
May 2023 - April 2024: Adila: Fairness-informed Collaborative Team Formation
Mukesh Reddy Somireddy (B.Sc.) [Dolphin]
March 2023 - April 2024: RePair: Benchmark Datasets for Query Refinement
Gabriel Rueda (Outstanding Scholar, B.Sc.) [Monkey]
Jan. 2023 - April 2024: Adila: Fairness-informed Collaborative Team Formation
May 2022 - Dec. 2022: OpeNTF: Neural Team Formation
Marco Kurepa (Grade 11) [Hummingbird]
Vincent Massey Secondary School
July 2023 - Sept. 2023: OpeNTF: Neural Team Formation
Farinam Hemmatizadeh (M.Sc.) [Koala]
Sept. 2022 - Dec. 2023: LADy: Latent Aspect Detection via Backtranslation Augmentation
Silver Medalist at IDeA 🥈
Silver Medalist at UWill Discover 2023 🥈
Hamed Loghmani (M.Sc.) [Crow]
Sept. 2022 - Dec. 2023: Adila: Fairness-informed Collaborative Team Formation
Isaac Jiang (Grade 11) [Red Panda]
July 2023 - Aug 2023: ReQue: Query Refinement
Savio Joseph Benher (Grade 12) [Rabbit]
Vincent Massey Secondary School
July 2023 - Aug 2023: RePair: Benchmark Datasets for Query Refinement (Reformulation)
Sara Gebara (Grade 11) [Cat]
Assumption College Catholic High School
July 2023 - Sept. 2023: ReQue: Query Refinement
Karan Saxena (M.Sc.) [Bat]
Jan. 2021 - Oct. 2023: OpeNTF: Geo-aware Neural Team Formation
Yogeswar Lakshmi Narayanan (M.Sc.) [Starfish]
Sept. 2021 - Sept. 2023: RePair: Benchmark Datasets for Query Refinement (Reformulation)
Sehar Sidhu (Grade 7, Highschooler)
May 2023 - June 2023: Accessible ChatGPT
Silver Medalist at Youth Science Canada 🥈
Chat-GPT Is Everywhere: Is This AI Chatbot a Friend or a Foe?
Sharjeel Mustafa (Outstanding Scholar, B.Sc.) [Crow]
Sept. 2022 - Dec. 2023: SEERa: User Community Prediction for Social IR
Michele Catani (B.Sc.) [Peacock]
Jan. 2022 - Dec. 2023: NeuCG: Neural Computational Geometry (Geodesic Distance)
Sept. 2020 - Dec. 2022: Online Predatory Conversation Detection
Arman Dashti (M.Sc.) [Jellyfish]
Jan. 2021 - Dec. 2022: Temporal Team Formation with Negative Sampling, Governor General’s Gold Medal Nomanee, Academic Achievement!
May 2022 - Dec. 2022: Personalized Query Refinement
Daljeet Singh (B.Sc.) [Rat]
Jan. 2022 - Nov. 2022: NeuCG: Neural Computational Geometry (Web Application)
Charles Corro (B.Sc.) [Mouse]
Jan. 2022 - Dec. 2022: NeuCG: Neural Computational Geometry (Convex Hull)
Mohammad Elias Khan (B.Sc.) [Lion]
Sept. 2021 - April 2022: Personalized Query Refinement
Bryce Hughson (B.Sc.) [Walrus]
Sept. 2021 - April 2022: Personalized Query Refinement
Emily Boice (B.Sc.) [Bee]
Sept. 2021 - April 2022: Personalized Query Refinement
Xiancheng Yan (B.Sc.) [Giraffe]
Sept. 2021 - April 2022: OpeNTF: Machine Translation for Neural Team Formation
Zixun Wang (B.Sc.) [Hedgehog]
Sept. 2021 - April 2022: OpeNTF: Machine Translation for Neural Team Formation
Sept. 2021 - April 2022: OpeNTF: Machine Translation for Neural Team Formation
Dhwani Nileshkumar Patel (B.Sc.) [Butterfly]
June 2021 - April 2022: OpeNTF: Neural Team Formation
Gold Medalist, Best Presentation, UWill Discover
Jan. 2021 - Sept. 2021: Topic Tracking in Online Social Networks
Jalal Shabo (B.Sc.) [Panda]
Jan. 2021 - Sept. 2021: SEERa: Topic Tracking in Online Social Networks
Jan. 2021 - Sept. 2021: Topic Tracking in Online Social Networks
Matthew Vojvodin (B.Sc.)
Jan. 2021 - Sept. 2021: Topic Tracking in Online Social Networks
Ritu Ge (B.Sc.)
Sept. 2020 - April. 2021: Topic Tracking in Online Social Networks
Juntao Ma (B.Sc.)
Sept. 2020 - April. 2021: Topic Tracking in Online Social Networks
Xinyang Wang (B.Sc.)
Sept. 2020 - April. 2021: Topic Tracking in Online Social Networks
Jinhua Long (B.Sc.)
Sept. 2020 - April. 2021: Topic Tracking in Online Social Networks