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
Postdoc & Visiting Scholar & Youth Outreach
Mahdis Saeedi (PhD, Research Associate) [Flamingo]
July 2021 - Now: Survey on Team Formation Algorithms
Ph.D.
Zahra Taherikhonakdar [Dog]
Sept. 2020 - Now: Synergistic Balance of Social Context for Information Retrieval
M.Sc.
B.Sc.
Tansh Koul [Puffin]
Jan. 2025 - Now: RePair: Extensible and Configurable Toolkit for Query Refinement Gold Standard Generation
Arunesh Choudhary [Pigeon: Dont Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus]
Sept. 2024 - Now: Osprey: A Reference Framework for Online Grooming Detection
Ali Alsalkhadi [Pigeon]
Sept. 2024 - Now: LADy: Arabic Benchmark Dataset for Latent Aspect Detection
Mahmoud Alkwisem [Sloth]
Sept. 2024 - Now: LADy: Arabic Benchmark Dataset for Latent Aspect Detection
Anas Mohammad [Gengar, a pokémon]
Sept. 2024 - Now: OpeNTF: Benchmark Datasets for Team Recommendation
Alumni
Richard Kenny [Roe Deer (Bambi)]
July 2024 - Dec. 2024: OpeNTF: Team Formation as Bundle Recommendation
Christine Wong (Outstanding Scholar) [Cardinal]
Jan. 2023 - Sept. 2024: 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 - Sept. 2024: LADy: Customer Feedback Analytics from Unsolicited Resources
Md Jamil Ahmed (M.Sc.) [Cat Footballer]
Sept. 2023 - Dec. 2024: OpeGNTF: Graph Neural Team Recommendation
Pouya Saniee (Grade 11) [White Rhinoceros]
Assumption College Catholic High School
July 2024 - Sept. 2024: LADy: Customer Feedback Analytics from Unsolicited Resources
Reza Barzgar (M.Sc.) [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
Vincent Massey Secondary School
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
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)
Arman Dashti (M.Sc.) [Jellyfish]
Jan. 2021 - Dec. 2022: Temporal Team Formation with Negative Sampling, Governor General’s Gold Medal Nomanee, Academic Achievement!
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)
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
Dhwani Nileshkumar Patel (B.Sc.) [Butterfly]
June 2021 - April 2022: OpeNTF: Neural Team Formation
Gold Medalist, Best Presentation, UWill Discover
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