SFU Data Science Research Group

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. We are a top 15 group in North America during 2014-2024 in terms of research activity at top data management venues.

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

Shubham Laddha

Mehrdad Mansouri

Xiangbo Mao

Ryan McBride

Yue Wang

Shilin Wang

Alumni

PhD, PostDocs and Visitors

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
Rong Ge, PhD
Wen Jin, PhD
Gabor Melli, PhD
Flavia Moser, PhD

Thesis MSc and Undergraduates

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