Graduated Students (In order of graduation and degree)
NOTE: For a list of my current students, see here.
(Total: 10 PhDs, 24 MASc, 1 Post-doc, 4 Other, 3 MEng)
Name | Degree, year | Thesis Title | Papers | |
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PhD (n = 10) | ||||
Layali Rashid* (First Position: Qualcomm, Raleigh. Currently Deep Learning Architect, Nvidia NSERC CGS(D) awardee. Internship at Microsoft Research) | PhD (2013) | Tolerating Intermittent Hardware Errors: Characterization, Diagnosis & Recovery | Papers | |
Shabnam Mirshokraie***(First position: co-founder of a Startup. Currently at Storefront.com, Best paper runner up at ICST’13. Internship at Fujitsu Labs) | PhD (2015) | Effective Test Generation and Adequacy Assessment for JavaScript-based Web Applications | Papers | |
Frolin Ocariza Jr.***, (First Position: SAP, Vancouver. NSERC CGS(D) awardee), Internships at Microsoft Research and Fujitsu Labs |
PhD (2016), MASc (2012) | On the Detection, Localization and Repair of Client-Side JavaScript Faults | Papers | |
Farid Molazem Tabrizi, (First Position: Google, Mountain View. Distinguished paper award at EDCC 2015 (story), Media Coverage, Internships at Google and Fortinet) |
PhD (2017) | Security Analysis and Intrusion Detection for Smart Embedded Systems | Papers | |
Saba Alimadadi***, (First Position: Post-doc at Northeastern University, Current Position: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Simon Fraser University (SFU), Distinguished paper award at ICSE’14 (Story), NSERC PDF awardee – ranked 1st in Canada for CS, Internship at SAP). |
PhD (2017) | Understanding Motifs of Program Behavior and Change | Papers | |
Guanpeng (Justin) Li (First Position: Post-doc at Univ. of Illinois (UIUC), Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Univ. of Iowa. NSERC PDF awardee, SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award, 2019 (Story), Four-year Fellowship, Best paper award runner up at DSN’18 (story), Paper Story, Internship at Nvidia Research) |
PhD (2019) | Understanding and Modeling Error Propagation in Programs | Papers | |
Bo Fang**, (First Position: Researcher at Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL), NSERC PDF Awardee – Ranked #2 in Canada in CS, BCGS Graduate Fellowship, William Carter PhD dissertation award in dependability, 2020 (Story) SIGHPC doctoral dissertation award honorable mention, Nominated by UBC for ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (1 of 2 nominees), Internships at LANL and PNNL) |
PhD (2020), MASc (2011-2014) | Approaches for Building Error Resilient Applications | Papers | |
Mehdi Karimibiuki****, (First Position: Senior Security Engineer, Sierra Wireless, Vancouver. Four-year Fellowship, Media Coverage) |
PhD (2020) | Addressing Security in Drone Systems Through Authorization and Fake Object Detection | Papers | |
Mohammad Rafiuzzaman* (International Doctoral Fellowship, First position: Instructor at British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)) | PhD (2023) | An observation-based runtime configuration framework for the front-end network edge | Papers | |
Asem Ghaleb (Four-Year Fellowship awardee, First position: Software Engineer, Huawei, Canada)****** | 2023 | Static Analysis Approaches for Finding Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts | Papers |
* Co-advised with Sathish Gopalakrishnan
** Co-advised with Matei Ripeanu
*** Co-advised with Ali Mesbah
**** Co-advised with Andre Ivanov
***** Co-advised with Prashant Nair
****** Co-advised with Julia Rubin
Julien Samson (NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship, first position: Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, ETS Montreal) (Papers)
Visiting Graduate Students (n = 4):
Yong (Alex) Yang, PhD student, Peking University. March – August 2019. (Papers)
Behrooz Sangchoolie, Chalmers University of Technology, Summer 2016. (Papers) – Currently Researcher at RiSE.Arpan Gujarati, PhD student, MPI-SWS*, February-March 2020. Winner of ACM SIGBED Dissertation Award. (Papers) – Currently Assistant professor, UBC CS.
Gargi Mitra, PhD student (IIT Madras), MITACS Globalink Awardee. Currently: Post-doc reearcher at UBC.
Jose Thomas, 2018. (First position: Data Engineer, LotLinx, Canada)
Ahmed Effat, 2019. (First position: Software Development Engineer, AbeBooks (Amazon), Canada)
Dan Jin, 2024. (First position: Firmware Engineer, Intel, Canada)