Faculty

Xiaoqi Tan	Assistant Professor Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta Fellow of Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii)

Current Graduate Students

Haoxin Sang	PhD student (01/2025-present) Haoxin joined the SODALab in Jan 2025. He received his MSc in Fundamental Mathematics from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2024) and B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics from Harbin Institute of Technology (2021).
Faraz Zargari	PhD student (01/2025-present) Faraz joined the SODALab as a RA in Feb 2024 and then as a PhD student in Jan 2025. He received his MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Alberta (2023) and B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Sharif University of Technology (2021). Co-advised with Yunwei (Ryan) Li University of Alberta Graduate Recruitment Scholarship (2025)
Kushagra Chandak	PhD student (09/2023-present) Kushagra joined the SODALab in Sept 2023. He received his MSc in Computing Science from University of Alberta (2023) and BTech in Computer Science from IIIT Hyderabad (2019). Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship (2023)
Shuai Liu	PhD student (09/2023-present) Shuai joined the SODALab in Sept 2023. He received his MSc in Computing Science from University of Alberta (2023) and B.Sc. in Computer Science from Harbin Institute of Technology (2021). Co-advised with Csaba Szepesvári Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship (2024)
Vlad Tkachuk	PhD student (09/2023-present) Vlad joined the SODALab in Sept 2023. He received his MSc in Computing Science from University of Alberta (2023) and B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from University of Waterloo (2021). Co-advised with Csaba Szepesvári Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship (2024)
Siyuan Yu	MSc student (09/2023-present) Siyuan joined the SODALab in Sept 2023. He received his B.Sc. in Computing Science from University of Alberta (2023). Alberta Innovates Graduate Student Scholarship (2024-2025)
SeyedehKimia Alaviyar	MSc student (03/2023-present) Kimia joined the SODALab in March 2023. She received her B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Amirkabir University of Technology (2022).
Hasti Nour Mohammadi Sigaroudi	MSc student (03/2023-present) Hasti joined the SODALab in March 2023. She received her B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Amirkabir University of Technology (2022).
Shayan Karimi	MSc student (03/2023-present) Shayan joined the SODALab in March 2023. He received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology (2021).
Hossein Nekouyan Jazi	MSc student (01/2023-present) Hossein joined the SODALab in Jan 2023. He received his B.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Tehran (2022).

Former Graduate Students

Yanzhao Wang	MSc (09/2022-01/2025) Thesis: Online Conversion under Horizon Uncertainty: From Competitive Analysis to Learning-Augmented Algorithms

Visitors (Current/Past)

Ying Cao	PhD student from HKUST (08/2023–01/2024)

Undergraduate Students (Current/Past)

We spend significant time mentoring undergraduate students through research internships (full-time in the summer or part-time during regular semesters) or individual study courses. Below is an incomplete list of undergraduate students, organized in reverse chronological order by their joining date. This list may become outdated over time.

Lyndon Hallett	NSERC USRA (Summer 2024)
John Tyler	NSERC USRA (Summer 2023) → Undergraduate Research Intern (Summer 2024)
Yanze Song	Undergraduate Research Intern (Summer 2023)
Zixuan Xie	Undergraduate Research Intern (Summer 2023) → Last known position: PhD student at University of Virginia (2024)
Johnson Wu	Undergraduate Research Assistant (Summer 2022) → Software Engineer Intern at Intel (2023)
Siyuan Yu	Undergraduate Research Assistant (Summer 2022) → URI Undergraduate Researcher (Summer 2023) → Last known position: MSc student at University of Alberta (2023)