Faculty
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Xiaoqi Tan Assistant Professor | Computing Science | University of AlbertaFellow of Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) Personal website |
Graduate Students
In reverse chronological order of joining the group:
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Kushagra Chandak (Ph.D.) 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). |
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Shuai Liu (Ph.D., co-advised with Csaba Szepesvári) 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). Shuai’s research lies in theoretical perspective of artificial intelligence and sequential decision making, especially reinforcement learning and bandit algorithms.Personal website |
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Volodymyr (Vlad) Tkachuk (Ph.D., co-advised with Csaba Szepesvári) 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). |
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Siyuan Yu (M.Sc.) 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).Personal website |
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SeyedehKimia Alaviyar (M.Sc.) 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). |
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Hasti Nourmohammadi Sigaroudi (M.Sc.) 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). |
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Shayan Karimi (M.Sc.) Shayan joined the SODALab in Winter 2023. He received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology (2021). |
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Hossein Nekouyan Jazi (M.Sc.) Hossein joined the SODALab in Winter 2023. He received his B.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Tehran (2022). |
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Yu Wang (Ph.D.) Yu joined the SODALab in Fall 2022. She received her M.Sc. in Statistics from National University of Singapore (2021) and B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from Northwestern Polytechnical University (2019). |
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Yanzhao Wang (M.Sc.) 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). |
Visitors
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Ying Cao (Ph.D., HKUST) Ying is a final-year PhD student at HKUST. She received her B.Eng. degree in Information Engineering from University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China (2018). Ying’s research interests include online algorithms and online learning. |
Undergraduate Students
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John Tyler NSERC USRA (Summer 2023)Topic: TBD |
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Henry Vu Topic: TBD |
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Yanze Song Topic: TBD |
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Johnson Wu Topic: TBD |