SFU Data Science Research Group has over 30 years' research experience in all aspects of data science, including data analytics, data mining and database systems. We work on foundational data science problems and build innovative systems for data science applications. We train next-generation leaders and researchers in data science and publish impactful results.

Faculty
Martin Ester
Professor
Zhengjie Miao
Assistant Professor
Jian Pei
Professor Emeritus
Jiannan Wang
Associate Professor
Ke Wang
Professor
Tianzheng Wang
Associate Professor

Students, PostDocs and Visitors
  • Mohamed Farouk Drira
  • Qingyuan Feng
  • Chuancong Gao
  • Tianxun Hu
  • Shubham Laddha
  • Mehrdad Mansouri
  • Xiangbo Mao
  • Ryan McBride
  • Danrui Qi
  • Changbo Qu
  • Anand Durai Raju
  • Yingwen Ren
  • Yue Wang
  • Young Wu
  • Ziyi Yan
  • Andy Zhang
  • Shilin Wang

    • Alumni
    • Xiaoying Wang, PhD, 2025, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research (Redmond)
    • Kaisong Huang, PhD, 2025, Assistant Professor, University of Calgary
    • Xuan Luo, PhD, 2024, Assistant Professor, York University
    • Ricardo Carvalho, PhD, 2024
    • Ali Arab, PhD, 2024
    • Raquel Aoki, PhD, 2023, Machine Learning Researcher, Borealis AI
    • Baotong Lu, Visiting PhD, 2023, Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia
    • Lovedeep Gondara, PhD, 2022, Scientist, Provincial Health Services Authority
    • Oliver Snow, PhD, 2022
    • Jinglin Peng, PhD, 2022, Huawei
    • Zicun Cong, PhD, 2022
    • Hossein Sharifi-Noghabi, PhD, 2022, Machine Learning Researcher, Borealis AI
    • Pei Wang, PhD, 2021, Senior Engineer, Huawei Canada
    • Jonghyeok Park, Visiting PhD, 2020, Assistant Professor, Korea University
    • Mijin An, Visiting PhD, 2020, SAP Korea
    • Jiaxi Tang, PhD, 2019, Software Engineer, Google DeepMind
    • Zhilin Zhang, PhD, 2019, Data Scientist, Amazon
    • Yu Yang, PhD, 2019, Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong
    • Weipeng Lin, PhD, 2019, Assistant Professor, Shenzhen Polytechnic
    • Sahand Khakabimamghan, PhD, 2019, Canexia Health
    • Liang Zhao, Postdoc, 2019, Assistant Professor, Xi'an Jiaotong University
    • Juhua Hu, PhD, 2018, Assistant Professor, University of Washington at Tacoma
    • Hongwei Liang, PhD, 2018, Data & Applied Scientist, Microsoft
    • Akiko Campbell, PhD, 2016, LiveLabs
    • Han Chao, PhD, 2016, SAP
    • Yao Wu, PhD, 2016, Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Twitter
    • Dong-Wan Choi, PostDoc, 2016, Assistant Professor, Inha University, South Korea
    • Lingyang Chu, PostDoc, 2016, Assistant Professor, McMaster University
    • Guanting Tang, PhD, 2015
    • Chenyi Zhang, PhD, 2015, Huawei
    • Hossein Maserrat, PhD, 2012, Startup
    • Bin Jiang, PhD, 2011, Facebook
    • Bin Zhou, PhD, 2011, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    • Rhonda Chaytor-Baldwin, PhD, 2010, Technical Program Manager, EMC/Greenplum
    • Richard Frank, PhD, 2010, Professor of Criminology, Simon Fraser University
    • Junqiang Liu, PhD, 2010, Professor, Zhejiang Gongshang University
    • Crystal Zhengzheng Xing, PhD, 2010, Amazon
    • Moonjung Cho, PhD, 2009, Prism Health Networks/Adjunct Professor, Bryant & Stratton College
    • Rong She, PhD, 2009, PostDoc, BC Genome Science Center
    • Yabo Xu, PhD, 2009, Associate Professor, Sun Yat-sen University
    • Benjamin Fung, PhD, 2007, Professor, McGill University
    • Yuelong Jiang, PhD, 2007, Microsoft
    • Ming Hua, PhD, 2006, Facebook
    • Senqiang Zhou, PhD, 2006, Microsoft
    • Daxin Jiang, PhD, 2005, Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University
    • He Yu, PhD, 2000, Chief Engineer of R&D, Mocha Software, China
    • Bo Hu, PhD
    • Xin Wang, PhD
    • Beidou Wang, PhD, Google
    • Samaneh Moghaddam, PhD, eBay
    • Phuong Dao, PhD, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
    • Mohsen Jamali, PhD, Senior Applied Researcher, Linkedin
    • Byron Gao, PhD, Associate Professor, Texas State University
    • Gabor Melli, PhD, 2010, LegalOnTech.com
    • Flavia Moser, PhD, 2009, SAP
    • Rong Ge, PhD, 2008
    • Wen Jin, PhD, 2007
    • Ge Shi, Thesis MSc, 2024, Software Engineer, Huawei Canada.
    • George He, Thesis MSc, 2023, Software Engineer, Huawei Canada.
    • Qingcan Li, Software Engineer, Google.
    • Lydia Zheng, MSc, 2021, Software Application Developer, Workday
    • Darien Imai, Undergrad RA, 2021, NetApp.
    • Jianqiu Zhang, MSc, 2021, Software Engineer, ByteDance.
    • Yongjun He, MSc, 2021, PhD Student, ETH Zurich.
    • Jiacheng Lu, Undergrad RA, 2020, Software Engineer, AMD.
    • Xiangpeng Hao, Undergrad RA, 2020, PhD Student, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    • Ruochen Jiang, MSc, 2019, PhD Student, Ohio State University
    • Mohamad Dolatshah, MSc, 2018
    • Mathew Teoh, Undergrad RA, 2017, Data Scientist, Quora
    • Nathan Yan, Visiting Student, 2017, PhD Student, Cornell University
    • Jiaxing Liang, MSc, 2015
    • Lin Liu, MSc, 2015
    • Beier Liu, MSc, 2015
    • Aungon Nag Radon, MSc, 2015. Data Scientist, Splunk Inc.
    • Li Xiong, MSc, 2015
    • Yu Tao, MSc, 2014
    • Xiaoning Xu, MSc, 2014
    • Yongmin Yan MSc, 2013
    • Yin (Judy) Chu, MSc, 2012. Software Engineer, Google
    • Da Huang, MSc, 2012
    • Qiang Jiang, MSc, 2012
    • Luping Li, MSc, 2012
    • Yvonne Ling-Chih Cheng, MSc, 2011
    • Yi Cui, MSc, 2011
    • Zhihui Guo, MSc, 2011. Microsoft
    • Jiyi Chen, MSc, 2010. Software Engineer, Shanghai Stock Exchange
    • Amin Milani Fard, MSc, 2010, Assistant Professor, New York Institute of Technology, Vancouver Campus
    • Thusjanthan Kubendranathan, MSc, 2010
    • Zhenhua Lin, MSc, 2010
    • Peng Wang, MSc, 2010. Mobike
    • Brittany Nielsen, MSc, 2009
    • Kathleen Tsoukalas, MSc, 2009
    • Ji Xu, MSc, 2009
    • Geoffrey Zenger, MSc, 2009
    • Man Ki Lau, MSc, 2008
    • Xinghuo Zeng, MSc, 2007
    • Bin Zhou, MSc, 2007
    • Yi Ting Lai, MSc, 2006
    • Irene Pekerskaya, MSc, 2006
    • Sourav Chakraborty, MSc, 2005
    • Jian Liu, MSc, 2005
    • Hongfei Qu, MSc, 2004
    • Thomas Ming-Yen Su, MSc, 2004
    • Tang Liu, MSc, 2003, Microsoft
    • Xiaoling Zhang, MSc, 2003
    • Quiqing Liu, MSc, 1998
    • Chu Xu, MSc, 1998, Microsoft
    • Boshra Nabaei, MSc
    • Hao Wang, MSc
    • Recep Colak, MSc
    • James Wagner, MSc
    • Hongjin Cui, MSc
    • Ping Wang, MSc
    • Fei Chen, MSc
    • Xiang Zhang, MSc