Faculty
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Xiaoqi Tan Assistant Professor | Computing Science | University of AlbertaFellow of Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) Personal website |
Graduate Students (Current)
In reverse chronological order of joining the group:
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Faraz Zargari | Ph.D. | Winter 2025–Present Faraz joined the SODALab as a Ph.D. student in Winter 2025. 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 (Current/Past)
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Isaiah Heidt (Apr 2024–Aug 2024) Isaiah joined the lab as a Research Assistant in April 2024. He received his B.Sc. degree with Specialization in Mathematics - Computational Science from University of Alberta (2023). |
Visitors (Current/Past)
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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):
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Lyndon Hallett (Computing Science@UAlberta) NSERC USRA (Summer 2024) |
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John Tyler (Computing Science@UAlberta) Undergraduate Research Intern (Summer 2024)NSERC USRA (Summer 2023) |
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Yanze Song (Computing Science@UAlberta) Undergraduate Research Intern (Summer 2022/2023/2024) |
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Henry Vu (Computing Science@UAlberta) Undergraduate Research Intern (Summer 2022) → Last known position: Master student at The University of Texas at Dallas (2024) |
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Johnson Wu (Computing Science@UAlberta) Undergraduate Research Assistant (Summer 2022) → Last known position: Software Engineer Intern at Intel (2023) |
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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 |