People | SODALab @ UAlberta

`Faculty`


	Xiaoqi Tan Assistant Professor \| Computing Science \| University of Alberta Fellow of Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) Personal website

`Graduate Students (Current)`

In reverse chronological order of joining the group:


	Faraz Zargari \| RA→Ph.D. \| Winter 2024–Present Faraz joined the SODALab as a Research Assistant in Winter 2024 and will start his Ph.D. in Fall 2024. He received his M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Alberta (2023) and B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Sharif University of Technology (2021). Thesis: TBD Co-advised with Yunwei (Ryan) Li
	Kushagra Chandak \| Ph.D.\| Fall 2023–Present Kushagra joined the SODALab as a Ph.D. student in Fall 2023. He received his M.Sc. in Computing Science from University of Alberta (2023) and BTech in Computer Science from IIIT Hyderabad (2019). Thesis: TBD Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship, Dec 2023
	Shuai Liu \| Ph.D.\| Fall 2023–Present Shuai joined the SODALab as a Ph.D. student in Fall 2023. He received his M.Sc. in Computing Science from University of Alberta (2023) and B.Sc. in Computer Science from Harbin Institute of Technology (2021). Thesis: TBD Co-advised with Csaba Szepesvári
	Vlad Tkachuk \| Ph.D.\| Fall 2023–Present Vlad joined the SODALab as a Ph.D. student in Fall 2023. He received his M.Sc. in Computing Science from University of Alberta (2023) and B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from University of Waterloo (2021). Thesis: TBD Co-advised with Csaba Szepesvári
	Siyuan Yu \| M.Sc. \| Fall 2023–Present Siyuan joined the SODALab as a M.Sc. student in Fall 2023. He received his B.Sc. in Computing Science from University of Alberta (2023). Thesis: TBD
	SeyedehKimia Alaviyar \| M.Sc. \| Winter 2023–Present Kimia joined the SODALab in Winter 2023. She received her B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics (double major) from Amirkabir University of Technology (2022). Thesis: TBD
	Hasti Nourmohammadi Sigaroudi \| M.Sc. \| Winter 2023–Present Hasti joined the SODALab in Winter 2023. She received her B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics (double major) from Amirkabir University of Technology (2022). Thesis: TBD
	Shayan Karimi \| M.Sc. \| Winter 2023–Present Shayan joined the SODALab in Winter 2023. He received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology (2021). Thesis: TBD
	Hossein Nekouyan Jazi \| M.Sc. \| Winter 2023–Present Hossein joined the SODALab in Winter 2023. He received his B.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Tehran (2022). Thesis: TBD
	Yanzhao Wang \| M.Sc. \| Fall 2022–Present Yanzhao joined the SODALab in Fall 2022. He received his MMath in Statistics from University of Waterloo (2021) and B.Sc. in Statistics from University of British Columbia (2019). Thesis: TBD

`Research Assistants/Visitors (Current/Past)`


	Isaiah Heidt (RA, Feb 2024–Present) Isaiah joined the lab as a Research Assistant in Winter 2024. He received his B.Sc. degree with Specialization in Mathematics - Computational Science from University of Alberta (2023).
	Ying Cao (Ph.D. student from HKUST, Aug 2023–Jan 2024) Ying is currently a Ph.D. student at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). She visited the lab during Aug 2023–Jan 2024.

`Undergraduate Students (Current/Past)`

List of undergraduate summer research interns (In reverse chronological order of joining the group):


	John Tyler (Computing Science@UAlberta) NSERC USRA (Summer 2023)
	Henry Vu (Computing Science@UAlberta) Undergraduate Research Intern (Summer 2022)
	Yanze Song (Computing Science@UAlberta) Undergraduate Research Intern (Summer 2022)
	Johnson Wu (Computing Science@UAlberta) Undergraduate Research Assistant (Summer 2022) → Last known position: Software Engineer Intern at Intel (2023)
	Siyuan Yu (Computing Science@UAlberta) Undergraduate Research Assistant (Summer 2022) → URI Undergraduate Researcher (Summer 2023) → Last known position: M.Sc. student at University of Alberta (2023) Project topic: Online selection with convex costs