Graduate Students

Research Interns and Postdocs Omar Carmona Cortes, , Jan 2013 - Mar 2015, Research topic: Multi-Objective Optimization for Risk Treaty Optimization. Blesson Varghese, , Jan 2012 - Jan 2014, Research topic: High Performance Computing for Risk Analytics. Thomas Crowell, Research Intern, Jan 2014 - Aug 2014, Research topic: Analytics, Visualization, and Data Mining with R. Kuber Dutt, Research Intern, May 2014 - Jul 2014, Research topic: Exploiting Parallelism in Vantage Point Tree Data Structure. Priyank Trivedi, Research Intern, Jan 2014 - Jun 2014, Research topic: Exploiting Parallelism in Vantage Point Tree Data Structure. Matthew Coelho, Co-op Student, Jan 2014 - Jun 2014, Research topic: Big Data Technologies applied to Risk Analytics. Jesse McMinn, Co-op Student, Mar 2013 - Dec 2013, Research topic: Enhanced Data Structures for Parallel Risk Analysis. Li Li, Graduate Research Associate, Jan 2012 - Sep 2013, Research topic: Outlier Detection Techniques for Reinsurance Analytics. Vivian Kou, USRA Student, Apr 2013 - Sep 2013, Research topic: Text Similarity Projects Combining Tech Analytics Techniques with High Performance Computing. Anirudh Beria, Research Intern, Jan 2013 - Aug 2013, Research topic: Parallel Mo-PBIL applied to Risk Treaty Optimization. Neil Burke, Co-op Student, Apr 2013 - Aug 2013, Research topic: Accelerating Risk Simulations on Multicore and Manycore Architectures. Jie Mei, USRA Student, Apr 2013 - Aug 2013, Research topic: Text Analytics Project. Surya Baghrecha, Research Intern, Jan 2013 - Aug 2013, Research topic: Real-time Search of Geometric Data on Cloud Infrastructure. Allie Strel, Graduate Research Associate, Jan 2012 - Sep 2012, Research topic: Understanding Unmodeled Catastrophe Risk. Yue Guan, Graduate Research Associate, Jan 2012 - Sep 2012, Research topic: GIS for Risk Data Warehousing. Anthony Astoul, Research Intern, Jan 2012 - Aug 2012, Research topic: Global Earthquake Visualization. Xin Wang, Graduate Research Associate, Jan 2012 - Aug 2012, Research topic: Statistical Methods in Risk Analytics. Christopher Filliter, Research Intern, Jan 2012 - Jun 2012, Research topic: Earthquake Loss Model Validation.

Current Students Matthew Coelho Thesis topic: Risk Exposure Analysis. (Supervisor) Owen Davidson Thesis topic: Parallel Algorithms for Vantage Point Trees. (Co-Supervisor) Kai Qi Thesis topic: Autotuning for Coud Applications. (Supervisor) Neil Burke Thesis topic: Realtime OLAP Analytics in the Cloud. (Supervisor) Duffy Angevine Thesis topic: Text Simularity Methods on GPUs. (Supervisor)

Past Students Quan Kong, M.C.S. Awarded May 2014. Thesis title: "Real-time Parallel In-Memory Analytics". (Supervisor) Zhimin Yao, M.C.S. Awarded May 2014. Thesis title: "Big data approaches to risk analytics". (Co-Supervisor) Udaya Raj Adhikari, M.C.S. Awarded Jan 2014. Thesis title: "High Performance Computing for Dynamic Financial Analysis". (Supervisor) Haoxu Wang, B.Sc. Awarded Dec 2013. Thesis title: "Parallel Risk Treaty Optimization using Multi-Objective Opt.". (Supervisor) Jesse McMinn, B.Sc. Awarded Dec 2013. Thesis title: "Enhanced Data Structures for Parallel Risk Analysis". (Supervisor) Leah Brown, B.Sc. Awarded Dec 2013. Thesis title: "Parallel Techniques for Text Analytics". (Supervisor) Li Li, M.Sc. Awarded Sep 2013. Thesis title: "Outlier Detection Techniques for Reinsurance Analytics". (Supervisor) Anirudh Beria, B.Sc. Awarded Aug 2013. Thesis title: "Parallel Mo-PBIL applied to Risk Treaty Optimization". (Supervisor) Surya Baghrecha, B.Sc. Awarded Aug 2013. Thesis title: "Real-time Search of Geometric Data on Cloud Infrastructure". (Supervisor) Neil Burke, B.Sc. Awarded Aug 2013. Thesis title: "Accelerating Risk Simulations on Multicore and Manycore Architectures". (Supervisor) Allie Strel, M.Sc. Awarded Sep 2012. Thesis title: "Understanding Unmodeled Catastrophe Risk". (Supervisor) Yue Guan, M.Sc. Awarded Sep 2012. Thesis title: "GIS for Risk Data Warehousing". (Supervisor) Anthony Astoul, B.Sc. Awarded Aug 2012. Thesis title: "Global Earthquake Visualization". (Supervisor) Aman Bahl, M.C.S. Awarded Aug 2012. Thesis title: "Aggregate Risk Analysis on GPUs and Multicore Processors". (Supervisor) Zhimin Yao, B.C.S. Awarded Aug 2012. Thesis title: "Simulation Techniques for Aggregate Risk Analysis". (Supervisor) Xin Wang, M.Sc. Awarded Aug 2012. Thesis title: "Statistical Methods in Risk Analytics". (Supervisor) Eric Mason, B.C.S. Awarded Aug 2012. Thesis title: "A Data Management System for Spatial Subdivision Hierarchies". (Supervisor) Christopher Filliter, B.Sc. Awarded Jun 2012. Thesis title: "Earthquake Loss Model Validation". (Supervisor) Naman Varshney, M.C.S. Awarded May 2012. Thesis title: "Visualization Support for a realtime Global Earthquake Catastrophe Model". (Supervisor) Kunal Shridhar, M.C.S. Awarded May 2012. Thesis title: "A realtime Catastrophe Model for Global Earthquake". (Supervisor) Adan Cosgaya, Ph.D. Awarded Sep 2011. Thesis title: "Engineering Algorithms for Solving Geometric and Graph Problems on Large Data Sets". (Co-Supervisor) Oliver Baltzer, Ph.D. Awarded Sep 2011. Thesis title: "Parallel Spatial OLAP". Position on graduation: Ph.D. Student. (Supervisor) Ishan Patel, M.C.S. Awarded Aug 2011. Thesis title: "Cloud Infrastructure for Analytics". (Supervisor) Jae-Hyun Paek, M.C.S. Awarded Mar 2011. Thesis title: "Privacy-Enhanced Public Name-Authority System for Building Research Communities". Position on graduation: Software Engineer FlagstoneRe. (Supervisor) Naureen Nizam, M.C.S. Awarded May 2007. Thesis title: "Parallel Methods for Genetic Linkage Analysis". (Co-Supervisor) Glenn Hickey, M.Sc. Awarded Sep 2006. Thesis title: "Parallel Methods for Phylogeny". (Co-Supervisor) Michael Lawence, M.Sc. Awarded Sep 2006. Thesis title: "The OLAP Enabled Grid". Position on graduation: Ph.D. Student. (Supervisor) Bin He, M.Sc. Awarded May 2006. Thesis title: "Parallel Emergency Monitoring". (Supervisor) Michael Atherton, M.C.S. Awarded Aug 2005. Thesis title: "Parallel Star Cube Generation". Position on graduation: Masters Student. (Supervisor) Jean-Paul Deveaux, M.C.S. Awarded Aug 2005. Thesis title: "Adaptive Tuple Differential Coding in Statistical Datasets". (Co-Supervisor) Xiong Zhou, M.E.C Awarded May 2005. Thesis title: "OLAP Benchmarks". (Supervisor) Michael Lawence, B.Sc. Awarded Sep 2004. Thesis title: "Online Algorithms for View Selection". Position on graduation: Masters Student, Dalhousie University. (Supervisor) Christopher Rafuse, B.C.S. Awarded Sep 2004. Thesis title: "Selecting Designs in Generated Design Spaces". Position on graduation: Masters Student. (Supervisor) Lingyan Zhang, M.C.S. Awarded Sep 2004. Thesis title: "Parallel Automatic Term Extraction From Large Web Corpora". Position on graduation: Ph.D. Student. (Co-Supervisor) Ying Chen, Ph.D. Awarded Sep 2004. Thesis title: "Parallel Data Mining". Position on graduation: Ph.D. Student. (Supervisor) Davin Butt, B.Sc. Awarded Aug 2004. Thesis title: "Parallel Methods for Maximum Likelihood Phylogeny". Position on graduation: Masters Student, Dalhousie University. (Co-Supervisor) Chunmei Gao, M.C.S. Awarded Apr 2004. Thesis title: "Parallel Single-link Cluster on Coarse-Grained Multicomputers". Position on graduation: Software Engineer. (Supervisor) Joshua Seib, M.C.S. Awarded Dec 2003. Thesis title: "Efficient Generation of Partial Datacubes". Position on graduation: Academic Computing, Dalhousie University. (Supervisor) Todd Eavis, Ph.D. Awarded Aug 2003. Thesis title: "Parallel Relational OLAP". Position on graduation: Assistant Professor, Concordia University. (Supervisor) Oliver Baltzer, M.C.S. Awarded May 2003. Thesis title: "Parallel Application Design". Position on graduation: Masters Student. (Supervisor) Chad Seaward, M.C.S. Awarded Apr 2003. Thesis title: "From Symbolic to Materialized Design Models". Position on graduation: Clear Picture Corporation. (Supervisor) Rania Hamouda, M. Arch. Awarded Dec 2002. Thesis title: "An Acoustic Design System". Position on graduation: Masters Student. (Co-Supervisor) James Dean-Moore, M.C.S. Awarded Dec 2001. Thesis title: "Parallel Segment Tree". Position on graduation: Imbedded Systems Design, AMIRIX. (Supervisor) Yan Li, M.C.S. Awarded Jun 2001. Thesis title: "A Query Driven User Interface to an Architectural Design Data Base". (Supervisor) Thomas Pehle, Diplom-Ingenieur Awarded Mar 2001. Thesis title: "A Software Architecture for Parallel Data Mining". Position on graduation: Fachhochschule Fur Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin. (Co-Supervisor) Quingcai Wei, M.C.S. Awarded Dec 1999. Thesis title: "Development of an Extensible Web Based Faculty Information System". (Supervisor) Philip Mak, M.C.S. Awarded Jun 1999. Thesis title: "An application of Genetic Algorithms to a Function Allocation Problem". Position on graduation: Ph.D. Student, George Washington University. (Supervisor) G-Y. Cao, M.C.S. Awarded Dec 1998. Thesis title: "Representation and Manipulation of Geometric and Architectural Data Stored in a Relational Database". Position on graduation: IBM Research Toronto. (Supervisor) Weihua He, M.C.S. Awarded Dec 1998. Thesis title: "A Java Based Architectural Design Tool Based on ODBC Access to a Geometric Database". Position on graduation: Nortel Networks. (Supervisor) Greg Powers, M.C.S. Awarded Sep 1998. Thesis title: "Agents in Context". Position on graduation: DMR Consulting. (Supervisor) Peter Spierenburg, M.C.S. Awarded Dec 1997. Thesis title: "Design Generation: Form + Function". Position on graduation: Lecturer St. Mary's University and Ph.D. Student. (Supervisor) Andrew Gajewski, M.C.S. Awarded Sep 1997. Thesis title: "On-The-Fly Creation of 3D Architectural Models in VRML". Position on graduation: Quickeys. (Supervisor) Liren Yan, M.C.S. Awarded Feb 1997. Thesis title: "Generation and Visualization of 3D Architectural Models in VRML". Position on graduation: Nortel Networks. (Supervisor) Xiangqun Hu, M.C.S. Awarded Feb 1997. Thesis title: "Development and Evaluation of a Web-based Architectural Design Tool". Position on graduation: IBM Research Toronto. (Supervisor) Hong Ning, M.C.S. Awarded Sep 1996. Thesis title: "A constraint-based editor for modular houses". Position on graduation: Pictorious. (Supervisor) P. Godbole, M.C.S. Awarded Jan 1996. Thesis title: "Multimedia Design Techniques". Position on graduation: System House. (Supervisor) Ihab Moawad, M.C.S. Awarded Dec 1995. Thesis title: "Sphinx: A Novel Switch Architecture For Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Networks". Position on graduation: Nortel Networks. (Co-Supervisor)

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