By Mahdi Bashari

Hossein Fani [Sloth]

July 2020 - Now: Social Information Retrieval

Mahdis Saeedi (PhD, Research Associate) [Flamingo]

July 2021 - Now: Survey on Team Formation Algorithms

Alice Yu (Grade 11, Artist) [Cat]

Vincent Massey Secondary School

July 2021 - Now: LADy: Customer Feedback Analytics from Unsolicited Resources

Pouya Saniee (Grade 11) [White Rhinoceros]

Assumption College Catholic High School

July 2024 - Now: LADy: Customer Feedback Analytics from Unsolicited Resources

Sepide Ahmadian [Horse]

Sept. 2024 - Future: Query Refinement (Reformulation)

Kap Thang [Sea Goat (Cappricorn)]

May 2024 - Now: OpeNTF: Spatial Team Formation

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

Md Jamil Ahmed (M.Sc.) [Cat Footballer]

Sept. 2023 - Dec. 2024: OpeGNTF: Graph Neural Team Recommendation

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

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

Bellwood Public School

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)

Muhammad Moeed Khalid (M.Sc.)

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!

Brandon Klassen (B.Sc.)

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

Dongli Zhu (B.Sc.)

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

Lincoln Dube (B.Sc.)

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

An Le (B.Sc.)

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