Members

Faculty

Marzena Karpenska

Linyi Li

Angel Chang

Anoop Sarkar

Fred Popowich

Ph.D. Students

Shiping Yang

Advisor: Angel Chang

Zhe Wang

Advisor: Linyi Li

Peng He

Advisor: Linyi Li

• Mark Schmidt -- Assistant Professor at University of British Columbia
• Maxim Roy -- now at Northside Inc.

• Hassan S. Shavarani
• Nishant Kambhatla -- Research Scientist at Emtelligent
• Jetic Gū
• Logan Born
• Ashkan Alinejad -- ML Research Scientist at Thomson Reuters
• Anahita Mansouri
• Golnar Sheikhshab
• Lydia Odilinye -- Scientific Researcher at Communications Research Centre Canada
• Maryam Siahbani -- Assistant Professor at University of Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, Canada
• Ann Clifton -- now at Spotify, New York
• Caroline Barrière -- Research Officer at NRCC --> Assistant Professor at University of Ottawa
• Baohua Gu
• David Gerhard -- Professor at University of Regina
• Gholamreza Haffari -- Tenure-track faculty member at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
• Eli Hagen
• Petr Kubon -- Director of Research and Development at Recombo
• Yudong Liu -- Lecturer at Western Washington University
• T. (Pat) Pattabhiraman -- Senior engineer in computational linguistics at Core Technology Group, Conversay, Redmond, WA
• Majid Razmara -- Co-founder and CTO at MetaOptima
• Maxim Roy -- now at Northside Inc.
• Baskaran Sankaran -- reseracher at IBM Research, Yorktown Heights
• Zhongmin Shi -- CEO at Summba.com
• Tomek Strzalkowski -- Associate Professor at SUNY Albany
• Jörg Überla -- Venture Partner at Wellington Partners
• Manuel Zahariev -- CTO at Vision Critical

• Rylen Sampson
• Jetic Gū -- Ph.D. student with Anoop at NatLang Lab at SFU
• Artaches Ambartsoumian
• Nishant Kambhatla -- Ph.D. student with Anoop at NatLang Lab at SFU
• Logan Born -- Ph.D. student with Anoop at NatLang Lab at SFU
• Andrei Vacariu -- Senior Software Developer at Emtelligent, Vancouver
• Vivian Kou -- Software Engineer at Microsoft, Bellevue, Washington(U.S.A)
• Khoa Tran -- Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon, Vancouver
• Jasneet Sabharwal -- Director of Development at Text IQ
• S. Hassan Shavarani -- Ph.D. student with Anoop at NatLang Lab at SFU
• Mehdi Soleimani
• Zhelun Wu -- SDE II at Amazon
• Te Bu -- Software Engineer at Microsoft
• Ramtin Mehdizadeh -- Machine learning engineer at Axiom Zen, Inc.
• Bradley Ellert
• Rohit Dholakia -- Technical Lead at Cisco
• David Lindberg -- Senior ML Engineer at Course Hero
• Zahra Behfarshad
• Ravikiran Vadlapudi -- Principal Application Research Scientist at Nuance Communications, Montreal
• Marzieh Razavi -- PhD at EPFL --> PostDoc at Idiap --> Researcher at Telepathy.ai at Switzerland
• Max Whitney -- Software Developer at Emtelligent, Vancouver
• Julia Birke -- now at SAP Business Objects
• Ann Clifton -- PhD with Anoop -> Research Scientist, Amazon -> Staff Research Scientist at Spotify, New York
• Nicolas Demers
• Cesar Dragunsky
• Akshay Gattani -- now at Zeugma Systems
• Ajeet Grewal -- Engg. Director at Twitter Inc.
• Fahim Hasan
• Mehdi Kashani -- now at Innovative Information
• Young-chan Kim -- Ph.D. student at University of Texas at Dallas
• Tomohiko Kimura
• Sandi Kodric -- Co-Founder at Vzajemci d.o.o.
• Fred Kroon -- Ph.D. candidate at University of Waterloo
• Milan Mosny -- President at Response42.com
• Porus Patell -- now at Translation Division, SAP
• Hong Shen -- now at Microsoft
• Dong Song -- now at Accenture
• Scott Stoness -- now at University of Rochester
• Javier Thaine -- now at Microsoft
• Carl Vogel -- Senior Lecturer at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
• Wendy Wang -- Post graduate in information management at health care at Conestoga College
• Bruce Wiebe -- Research Officer at Canada Institute of Linguistics
• Winona Wu -- now at SAP Business Objects
• Yingjian Zhang -- now at FinancialCAD Corp., BC

• Aditi Jain -- Visiting Student; Spring 2023
• Caitlin Finnigan ((SFU)) -- May'18 - Apr'19; now Associate SDE at Broadridge
• Rory Wang ((SFU)) -- 2018
• Jetic Gū (SFU)
• Ian Stewart (SFU)
• Evan Zhang (SFU) -- 2013
• Sun Yan (SFU)
• Di Fu (SFU)
• Yizhou Wang (SFU)
• Utkarsh Patange (IIT Kanpur) -- Summer 2014 ( "MITACS Globalink" )
• Yulan Huang (SFU) -- Spring 2014, Summer 2014
• Te Bu (SFU) -- Summer 2013
• Yuhuan Jiang -- July 2013 ( "MITACS Globalink" )
• Haotian Zhang (SFU) -- Summer 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014
• Ziqi Wang (SFU) -- Summer 2013, Fall 2013
• Mengyun Kong (SFU-Zhejiang University dual-degree program.) -- 2011
• Diptesh Chatterjee (IIT Kharagpur) -- Summer 2010 ( "MITACS Globalink" )
• Manaal Faruqui (IIT Kharagpur) -- Summer 2009 ( "MITACS Globalink" )
• Max Whitney (SFU) -- Fall 2008, Summer 2009