Current Research Team
 Xiaoqi Tan |
Assistant Professor Department of Computing Science University of Alberta Fellow of Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) |
 Haoxin Sang |
PhD student (01/2025-present) Haoxin is a PhD student in the SODALab. He received his MSc in Fundamental Mathematics from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and his BSc in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics from the Harbin Institute of Technology. |
 Faraz Zargari |
PhD student (01/2025-present) Faraz is a PhD student in the SODALab. He received his MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Alberta and his BSc in Civil Engineering from Sharif University of Technology. Co-advised with Yunwei (Ryan) Li |
 Kushagra Chandak |
PhD student (09/2023-present) Kushagra is a PhD student in the SODALab. He received his MSc in Computing Science from the University of Alberta and his BTech in Computer Science from IIIT Hyderabad. Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship (2023) |
 Shuai Liu |
PhD student (09/2023-present) Shuai is a PhD student in the SODALab. He received his MSc in Computing Science from the University of Alberta and his BSc in Computer Science from the Harbin Institute of Technology. Co-advised with Csaba Szepesvári Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship (2024) |
 Vlad Tkachuk |
PhD student (09/2023-present) Vlad is a PhD student in the SODALab. He received his MSc in Computing Science from the University of Alberta and his BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo. Co-advised with Csaba Szepesvári Canada Graduate Scholarships – Doctoral (CGS D) Award (2025) Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship (2024) |
 Michael He |
MSc student (09/2026-present) Michael is a MSc student in the SODALab. He received his BSc in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Toronto. |
 Grayson Lee |
MSc student (09/2026-present) Grayson is a MSc student in the SODALab. He received his BSc in Computing Science from Simon Fraser University. |
 Shengkuan Yan |
MSc student (09/2026-present) Shengkuan is a MSc student in the SODALab. He received his BSc in Mathematics from Xi’an Jiaotong University. Before joining the SODALab, he did his PhD in Mathematics at the University of Virgina. |
 Lyndon Hallett |
MSc student (09/2025-present) Lyndon is a MSc student in the SODALab. He received his BSc in Computing Science from the University of Alberta. |
Undergraduate Students
Daniel Liang, NSERC USRA (Summer 2025)
Lyndon Hallett, NSERC USRA (Summer 2024) → Undergraduate Research Assistant (Summer 2025) → Last known position: MSc student @UofA (2025)
John Tyler, NSERC USRA (Summer 2023) → Undergraduate Research Intern (Summer 2024) → Last known position: AI GPU Software Development Intern @AMD (2025)
Yanze Song, Undergraduate Research Intern (Summer 2023) → Last known position: MSc student @UofA (2025)
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 @Intel (2023) → Last known position: Compiler Engineer @Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Siyuan Yu, Undergraduate Research Assistant (Summer 2022) → URI Undergraduate Researcher (Summer 2023) → Last known position: MSc student @UofA (2023)
Alumni
Siyuan Yu (MSc, 09/2023–01/2026)
Thesis: Online Fractional Knapsack with Packing Costs and Group Quotas
Last known position: Senior Software Engineer @ConfluentSeyedehKimia Alaviyar (MSc, 03/2023–04/2025)
Thesis: Multi-phase Regularized Online Allocation
Last known position: Machine Learning Resident @AmiiHasti Nourmohammadi (MSc, 03/2023–04/2025)
Thesis: Value-oblivious Secretaries with Advice
Last known position: Research Associate @AmiiShayan Karimi (MSc, 03/2023–04/2025)
Thesis: Computational Complexity of Reinforcement Learning under Partial $ q^{\pi}$-realizability
Last known position: Research Assistant @UofAHossein Nekouyan (MSc, 01/2023–04/2025)
Thesis: Randomized Posted Pricing and Rounding Schemes for Online Selection and Matching (Outstanding MSc Thesis Award)
Last known position: Research Assistant @UofA → PhD student at University of Toronto (2026)Yanzhao Wang (MSc, 09/2022–01/2025)
Thesis: Online Conversion under Horizon Uncertainty: From Competitive Analysis to Learning-Augmented Algorithms