Theses Supervised or Read

Post-doctoral researchers

1. Axel Soto, ``Visual Text Analytics and dimensionality reduction'', 2010-.

2. Aminul Islam, ``Visul Text Analytics: text similarity using Google N-grams, 2011-, co-supervised with V. Keselj.

3. Pawel Pralat, ``Clustering in Networked Information Spaces'', 2006-2007, co-supervised with J. Janssen. Currently assistant professor at Ryerson Univesity, formerly with West Virginia University.

4. J.P. Grossman, ``Recursive Node Similarity in Networked Information Spaces'', 2003, co-supervised with J. Janssen. Currently working in US industry.

Ph.D. Theses supervised

1. Marek Lipczak, ``Hybrid Tag Recommendation In Collaborative Tagging Systems'', May 2012

2. Yeming Hu, ``Search and Browsing in Personal digital libraries'', October 2012 (co-supervised with James Blustein).

3. Adetokunbo Makanju, ``Event Log Analysis With Minimum Apriori Information'', May 2012. (co-supervised with Nur Zincir-Heywood).

4. Hathai Tanta-ngai, ``SHRACK: A Self-Organizing Peer-To-Peer System For Document Sharing And Tracking'', May 2010. (co-supervised with Vlado Keselj)

5. Xiaomeng Wan, ``Link-Based Event Detection In Dynamic Communication Networks'', (co-supervised with Nauzer Kalyaniwalla), May 2010. Currently working for startup company in Calgary.

6. Jane Mason, ``An N-Gram Based Approach To The Automatic Classification Of Web Pages By Genre", December 2009, (co-supervised with Michael Shepherd)

7. Mahdi Shafiei, ``Leveraging Structural Information For Statistical Topic Models Of Text'', August 2009. Currently postdoctoral research associate at Dalhousie University (Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics).

8. Yongzheng Zhang, ``A Framework For Summarization Of Multi-Topic Web Sites'', August 2007, (co-supervised with Nur Zincir-Heywood), currently working for ebay.com in California.

9. Hongyu Liu, ``Probabilistic Models for Focused Web Crawling'', August 2007, (co-supervised with Jeannette Janssen).

10. Pifu Zhang, ``Globally Consistent 3D Simultaneous Localization And Mapping With Multi-Sensor Fusion'', August 2007, (co-supervised with Jason Gu).

11. B. Kapralos, ``The Sonel Mapping Acoustical Modeling Method'' (Department of Computer Science, York University, co-supervised with M. Jenkin), completed in June 2006. Currently assistant professor at the Ontario University Institute of Technology.

12. Yiannis Rekleitis, ``Cooperative Localization and Multirobot Exploration'', Department of Computer Science, McGill University, December 2002. (co-supervised with Prof. Greg Dudek). Currently Research Scientist at McGill University.

13. Feng Lu, ``Shape Registration using Optimization for Mobile Robot Navigation'', Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, September 1995. Currently working at Microsoft, Seattle, WA.

14. Erwin Prassler, ``Distributed representations for map acquisition, representation and navigation'', Department of Computer Science, and Research Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing, University of Ulm, Germany, March 1996. Currently Professor at the University of Applied Sciences (Fachhochschule), Bonn-Rhein-Sieg.

Ph.D. Theses, in progress

1. Pei Lee, ``Density-based Event Tracking and Annotation in Social Streams'', Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, (main supervisor: Laks Lakshmanan).

2. Raheleh Makki Niri, ``Text visualization'', started in Sep. 2011 (co-supervised with Stephen Brooks).

3. Armin Sajadi, ``Text visualization for subspace clustering'', started in Sep. 2011 (co-supervised with Vlado Keselj).

4. Magda Jankowska, ``Text visualization for text similarity'', started in Sep. 2011 (co-supervised with Vlado Keselj).

5. Hamid Nourashraf, ``Interactive document clustering using evolutionary computation'', started in Jan. 2010 (co-supervised with Dirk Arnold).

6. Yael Kollet, ``Mining of social text streams'', started in Jan. 2009 (co-supervised with Jacob Slonim).

7. Ozge Yeloglu, ``Expertise modelling based on expert authored document corpora'', started in Sep. 2007 (co-supervised with Nur Zincir-Heywood).

M.Sc. Theses supervised

1. Zainab Zolaktaf: ``Probabilistic Modeling In Community-Based Question Answering Services'', May 2012.

2. Fatemeh Riahi: ``Finding Expert Users In Community Question Answering Services Using Topic Models'', May 2012.

3. Love Kalra: ``Activities Of Daily Living Detection Using Markov Models'', December 2011.

4. Sisira De Silva: ``An Ontology to Model Time in Clinical Practice Guidelines'', June 2008.

5. Zheyuan Yu: ``High Performance Postal Address Extraction from Web Pages'', co-supervised with Vlado Keselj, April 2007.

6. Gang Wei: ``Named Entity Recognition And An Application To Document Clustering'', October 2004.

7. Gao, Weizheng: ``A Hierarchical Document Clustering Algorithm'', August 2004.

8. Yingbo Miao: ``Document representations for clustering'', August 2004, (co-supervised with Vlado Keselj).

9. Andrew Tuttle: ``Evaluation of Machine Learning Algorithms for Spam Detection'', May 2004.

10. Xiaomeng Wan: ``Link-Based Search For Similar Pages On The Web'', May 2004 (co-supervised with Jeannette Janssen).

11. Lingyan Zhang: ``Parallel Automatic Term Extraction from Large Web Corpora'', May 2004, (co-supervised with A. Rau-Chaplin)

12. Yunfeng Shan: ``Automating Recognition Of Regions Of Intrinsically Poor Multiple Alignment Using Machine Learning'', Jul. 2003 (co-supervised with Andrew Roger, Christian Blouin, Edward Susko).

13. Biao Chen: ``Clustering the Citation Graph'', Sep. 2003 (co-supervised with J. Janssen).

14. Adam Nickerson: ``Connecting Link Structure and Content on the Web for Effective Focused Crawling", Sep. 2003 (co-supervised with J. Janssen).

15. Hui Liu: ``Acoustic Positioning Using Multiple Microphone Arrays'', July 2003.

16. Xiaowei Song: ``A Constraint-Based Approach for Signal Acquisition Control in Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy (MRI/MRS)'', August 2002 (co-supervised with Malcolm Heywood, Ben Rusak). Currently working at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Geriatric Medicine Research Unit.

17. Li Dong: ``Automatic term extraction and document similarity in special text corpora'', May 2002. Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University. Currently working for CARIS, in Fredericton, NB, http://www.caris.com.

18. Jinghu Liu: ``Resource Bounded Online Search for Dense Neighbourhoods on the Web'', May 2002. Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University (co-supervised with J. Janssen)

19. Yongzheng Zhang: ``World Wide Web Site Summarization'', May 2002. Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University. Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, (co-supervised with Nur Zincir-Heywood).

20. Zhongmin Shi: ``Post-supervised Template Induction for Information Extraction from Lists and Tables in Web Sources'', May 2002. Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University. Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Simon Fraser University (co-supervised with Nur Zincir-Heywood).

21. Wanhong Zheng: ``Categorization of Electronic Medical News'', December 2001 (co-supervised with C. Watters).

22. Wangzhong Lu: ``Node Similarity in Networked Information Spaces'', July 2001. Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University (co-supervised with J. Janssen).

23. Yuan An: ``Characterizing and mining the citation graph of the computer science literature'', July 2001, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University (co-supervised with J. Janssen). Currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Toronto.

24. Bill Kapralos, ``Eyes 'n Ears: A System for Attentive Teleconferencing'', June 2001, Department of Computer Science, York University (co-supervised with M. Jenkin). Currently pursuing a PhD at York University.

25. Greg Reid: "Active Binaural Sound Localization", Department of Computer Science, York University, completed in March of 1999. Currently working for Platform Computing Corporation as a software developer.

26. Zusheng Rao: "Fast Retrieval Algorithms for Shape Databases", Department of Computer Science, York University, completed in March of 1999. Currently working for Internet Presence Inc. in Toronto as a software developer.

27. Jyoti Baid: ``Deformable Shape Recognition using Dynamic Programming'', started on September 15, 1993, completed on June, 13, 1995.

28. Hong Zhao: ``Robot Position Estimation using Higher Order Moments of Laser Range Profiles.'', started on September 15, 1991, completed on May 11, 1994, Department of Computer Science, York University.

29. Ziqiang Wu, ``Visual tracking of coloured objects'', started on September 15, 1990, completed on October 1, 1992, Department of Computer Science, York University.

30. Jeremy Cooperstock, ``A Neural Network Operated Vision-Guided Mobile Robot Arm for Docking and Reaching'', completed on January 10, 1992. Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto. Presently on the faculty in Electrical Engineering at McGill University.

31. Bradley Brown, ``Visual uncertainty and non-metric relationships in robot navigation: a case study in Robot Orienteering'', completed 1/1991, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto.

32. Tim Horton, ``Model-based shape recognition in the presence of occlusion using a contour-based representation for hypothesis generation and spatial occupancy for hypothesis pruning'', completed 6/1990, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto.

33. John Lee, ``Matching Range Images of Human Faces'', completed 6/1990, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto.

34. Robert Martin, ``Model-based recognition of curved objects from fragmented edge information'', completed 6/1990, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto.

35. Raymond Lee, ``Machine Analysis of Impulse Radar Signals for Ice Profiling'', completed 1/1988, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Toronto. (in collaboration with Canpolar Inc., and co-supervised with A. Venetsanopoulos).

M.Sc. Theses in Progress

1. Md. Rashadul Hasan Rakib: ``Visualizing entity relations in large news corpora'', started Sep. 2012.

2. Tomasz Niewiariowski: ``Visualization of the scientific literature'', started Sep. 2011 (co-supervised with V. Keselj)

3. Shali Liu: ``Human computer interaction for sentiment analysis from text'', started Sep. 2011, (9/11) (co-supervised with K. Hawkey)

B.Sc. Theses Supervised

1. Ryan Kiros, ``A new semi-supervised dimensionality reduction method using deep belief networks'', co-supervised with Axel Soto and Vlado Keselj, summer 2011, funded by an NSERC USRA. Currently MCS student at Univ. of Alberta.

2. Patrick Nicholson, ``Extracting C/NC-Values From Massive Text Corpora Via Frequency Filtering'', March 2007, co-supervised with Norbert Zeh, currently PhD student at Univ. of Waterloo.

3. Ian Hopkins, ``Optimizing C/NC-value automated term recognition'', May 2006, co-supervised with Norbert Zeh. currently Founder and software developer of LucidHelix Solutions in Saskatchewan.

4. Michael Kershaw, ``Linking Relevant Medical Literature To Gem-Encoded Clinical Practice Guidelines'', March 2004, co-supervised with S.R. Abidi, Law degree in Ontario, Associate - Bennett Jones.

5. Singer Wang, ``Browsing And Graph Structural Analysis Of The .Gov Collection'', Honour's thesis, September 2003, co-supervised with J. Janssen. Currently Senior System and Database Administrator at The Pythian Group, Ottawa.

6. Michael Klaas, ``A Lattice-Like Data Structure for Efficient Automatic Term Recognition'', Honour's thesis, May 2003. Currently Chief Architect at Worio.com

7. C. Rafuse, ``Sensor Modelling for an Aquatic Walking Robot'', NSERC USRA, summer 2002

8. A. Nickerson, ``Classification via clustering in imbalanced text data sets'', NSERC USRA, summer 2000, co-supervised with N. Japkowicz.