Computing & Software graduate research projects

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Projects

Name of faculty memberResearch focusEmailFaculty profile
Dr. Antoine DezaCombinatorial and Continuous Optimization, Discrete and Computational Geometry, Enumeration Algorithmsdeza@mcmaster.caLearn more about Dr. Deza
Dr. Bartosz ProtasMathematical fluid mechanics, Optimization, control and estimation of distributed systems, Electrochemistry and thermodynamicsbprotas@mcmaster.caLearn more about Dr. Protas
Dr. Blaise BourdinAdvanced computation schemes for phase-field models of fracture, Computational study of fracture in heterogeneous materials, inverse problems related to 3D imaging of materials and structuresbourdin@mcmaster.caLearn more about Dr. Bourdin
Dr. Christopher AnandComputer Science Education, Functional Programming, Continuous Optimization, Algorithms for Code Optimization, Human-Computer Interfaces, Model-Based Image Reconstruction (for SEM, MRI)anandc@mcmaster.caLearn more about Dr. Anand
Dr. Denise GeiskkovitchHuman-robot interaction, human-computer interaction, social robotics, assistive robotsgeiskkod@mcmaster.caLearn more about Dr. Geiskkovitch
Dr. Douglas DownScheduling of stochastic systems, resource management for computer systems, blood product supply chain management, hospital clinic capacity planningdownd@mcmaster.caLearn more about Dr. Down
Dr. Emil SekerinskiProgramming theories, programming languages, compiler construction (for multi-core processors and SIMD instructions), concurrent algorithms and data structuresemil@mcmaster.caLearn more about Dr. Sekerinski
Dr. Fei ChiangData change exploration and explanations, data profiling, data quality, temporal graph miningfchiang@mcmaster.caLearn more about Dr. Chiang
Dr. George KarakostasTheoretical Computer Science – Approximation algorithms – Algorithmic game theorykarakos@mcmaster.caLearn more about Dr. Karakostas
Dr. Hassan AshtianiTheoretical machine learning, differential privacy, distribution learning, learning under distribution shift, robustness to adversarial perturbationszokaeiam@mcmaster.caLearn more about Dr. Ashtiani
Dr. Irene YuanDesigning technological interventions that address real-world needs and evaluating them using a balance of qualitative and quantitative methodsirene.yuan@mcmaster.caLearn more about Dr. Yuan
Dr. Istvan DavidReinforcement learning, digital twinsistvan.david@mcmaster.caLearn more about Dr. David
Dr. Jacques CaretteProgramming languages, in particular generative programming and quantum programming languages, mechanized mathematics, Generative approaches applied to software engineeringcarette@mcmaster.caLearn more about Dr. Carette
Dr. Jake DoliskaniPost-quantum Cryptography, Quantum Computing, Applied Cryptographyjake.doliskani@mcmaster.caLearn more about Dr. Doliskani
Dr. Li XiComputational numerical simulation of turbulence in Newtonian and viscoelastic fluids; Computational molecular simulation and data-driven modeling of polymer materialsxili@mcmaster.caLearn more about Dr. Xi
Dr. Lingyang ChuData mining and big data analysis, large scale graph machine learning, trustworthy machine learning including interpretable machine learning, privacy and fairness aware computingchul9@mcmaster.caLearn more about Dr. Chu
Dr. Martin v. MohrenschildtSignal processing, Vibration analysismohrens@mcmaster.caLearn more about Dr. Mohrenschildt
Dr. Matthew GiamouAutonomous mobile robotics, convex optimization, computer vision, manipulation planning, geometric deep learning, robust perception, sensor calibrationgiamoum@mcmaster.caLearn more about Dr. Giamou
Dr. Mehdi MoradiAI and computer vision for healthcare, medical imagingmoradm4@mcmaster.caLearn more about Dr. Moradi
Dr. Ned NedialkovHigh-performance computing, scientific computing, mathematical softwarenedialk@mcmaster.caLearn more about Dr. Nedialkov
Dr. Neerja MhaskarAlgorithms and data structures, algorithms on strings, analyzing patterns in big data, developing tools and data structures for data compression, information retrieval and bioinformatics, network securitypophlin@mcmaster.caLearn more about Dr. Mhaskar
Dr. Onaizah OnaizahMicrorobots, soft continuum robots, mechatronics, magnetics, design and fabrication, material characterization, control systems, vision and sensing, medical robots, localizationonaizaho@mcmaster.caLearn more about Dr. Onaizah
Dr. Richard PaigeSoftware engineering, safety, Model-Driven Engineering, security, formal methods, automotive, aerospace, cloud computing, search-based software engineeringpaigeri@mcmaster.caLearn more about Dr. Paige
Dr. Ridha KhedriInformation security, data analytics, software engineering, Architecture Design, multi-context systems, Network security, formal methods, Ontology-based data analyticskhedri@mcmaster.caLearn more about Dr. Khedri
Dr. Rong ZhengNon-contact mmWave sensing: to develop continuous non-contact sensing solutions for health and fitness monitoring in-home and in retirement facilitiesrzheng@mcmaster.caLearn more about Dr. Zheng
Dr. Ryszard JanickiConcurrency, abstract approximation, rough sets, ranking theory, fundamentals of software engineeringjanicki@mcmaster.caLearn more about Dr. Janicki
Dr. Saiedeh RazaviDistributed optimization or federated machine learning models for improving planning and logistics in Transportation, Supply Chains, and Construction Projectsrazavi@mcmaster.caLearn more about Dr. Razavi
Dr. Sébastien MosserSoftware engineering, software architecture (microservices), DevOps, modellingmossers@mcmaster.caLearn more about Dr. Mosser
Dr. Shahab AsoodehTrustworthy machine learning (including differential privacy, algorithmic fairness, interpretability), generalization, theoretical machine learningasoodeh@mcmaster.caLearn more about Dr. Asoodeh
Dr. Sivan SabatoTheoretical machine learning, interactive learning algorithms, fairness in machine learningsabatos@mcmaster.caLearn more about Dr. Sabato
Dr. Spencer SmithApplication of software engineering methods, tools and techniques to improve the quality of research softwaresmiths@mcmaster.caLearn more about Dr. Smith
Dr. Stephen KellyGenetic programming, reinforcement learning, robotics, creativity, media artspkelly@mcmaster.caLearn more about Dr. Kelly
Dr. Swati MishraHuman-AI Collaborative Systems, Applied Machine Learningmishrs23@mcmaster.caLearn more about Dr. Mishra
Dr. Yingying WangMotion Stylization, Hand Motion Capture, Conversational Gesture Synthesiswang840@mcmaster.caLearn more about Dr. Wang
Dr. Charles WelchNatural language processing, language modeling, conversational agents, personalization, perspectivism, computational social sciencecwelch@mcmaster.caLearn more about Dr. Welch
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