{"id":2566,"date":"2014-06-18T16:18:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T23:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/karthik\/?page_id=2566"},"modified":"2025-12-17T11:34:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T19:34:36","slug":"graduated-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/karthik\/students\/graduated-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduated Students"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nGraduated Students (In order of graduation and degree)<\/B>
\n<\/A><\/p>\n

NOTE: For a list of my current students, see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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(Total: 12 PhDs<\/a>, 25 MASc<\/a>, 1 Post-doc<\/a>, 4 Other<\/a>, 3 MEng<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Name <\/th>\n Degree, year <\/th>\n Thesis Title <\/th>\n Papers<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
PhD (n = 12)<\/strong><\/td>\n

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Layali Rashid* <\/a>(First Position: Qualcomm, Raleigh. Currently Deep Learning Architect, Nvidia NSERC CGS(D)<\/a> awardee. Internship at Microsoft Research)<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/td>\n PhD (2013) <\/td>\n Tolerating Intermittent Hardware Errors: Characterization, Diagnosis & Recovery<\/a> <\/td>\n Papers<\/A> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shabnam Mirshokraie<\/a>***(First position: co-founder of a Startup. Currently at Storefront.com, Best paper runner up at ICST’13. Internship at Fujitsu Labs)<\/td>\n PhD (2015) <\/td>\n Effective Test Generation and Adequacy Assessment for JavaScript-based Web Applications<\/a> <\/td>\n Papers<\/A> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nFrolin Ocariza Jr.<\/a>***,
\n(First Position: SAP, Vancouver. NSERC CGS(D)<\/a> awardee)<\/a>, Internships at Microsoft Research and Fujitsu Labs <\/td>\n		 PhD (2016), MASc (2012)<\/td>\n On the Detection, Localization and Repair of Client-Side JavaScript Faults <\/a><\/td>\n Papers<\/A> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Farid Molazem Tabrizi<\/a>,
\n(First Position: Google, Mountain View. Distinguished paper award at EDCC 2015 (story<\/a>), Media Coverage<\/a>, Internships at Google and Fortinet)<\/td>\n		 PhD (2017)<\/td>\n Security Analysis and Intrusion Detection for Smart Embedded Systems<\/a> <\/td>\n Papers<\/A> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saba Alimadadi<\/a>***,
\n(First Position: Post-doc at Northeastern University,
\nCurrent Position: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Simon Fraser University (SFU), Distinguished paper award at ICSE’14 (Story<\/a>), NSERC PDF awardee – ranked 1st in Canada for CS<\/a>, Internship at SAP).\n<\/td>\n		 PhD (2017)<\/td>\n Understanding Motifs of Program Behavior and Change<\/a> <\/td>\n Papers<\/A> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Guanpeng (Justin) Li <\/a>
\n(First Position: Post-doc at Univ. of Illinois (UIUC), Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Florida at Gainesville (U. Fl). NSERC PDF awardee,
\nSPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award, 2019 <\/a> (Story<\/a>),
\nFour-year Fellowship<\/a>, Best paper award runner up at DSN’18 (story<\/a>), Paper Story<\/a>, Internship at Nvidia Research)<\/td>\n		 PhD (2019)<\/td>\nUnderstanding and Modeling Error Propagation in Programs<\/a> <\/td>\n Papers<\/A> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bo Fang<\/a>**, (First Position: Researcher at Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL), Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Arlington (UTA),
\nNSERC PDF Awardee – Ranked #2 in Canada in CS, BCGS Graduate Fellowship,
\nWilliam Carter PhD dissertation award in dependability, 2020<\/a> (Story<\/a>) SIGHPC doctoral dissertation award honorable mention<\/a>, Nominated by UBC for ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (1 of 2 nominees), Internships at LANL and PNNL) <\/td>\n		 PhD (2020), MASc (2011-2014)<\/td>\n Approaches for Building Error Resilient Applications<\/a> <\/td>\n Papers<\/A> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mehdi Karimibiuki<\/a>****,
\n(First Position: Senior Security Engineer, Sierra Wireless, Vancouver. Four-year Fellowship<\/a>, Media Coverage<\/a>)<\/td>\n		 PhD (2020) <\/td>\n Addressing Security in Drone Systems Through Authorization and Fake Object Detection<\/a> <\/td>\n Papers<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mohammad Rafiuzzaman*<\/a> (First position: Lecturer at British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), International Doctoral Fellowship<\/a>)<\/td>\nPhD (2023) <\/td>\n An observation-based runtime configuration framework for the front-end network edge<\/a><\/td>\n Papers<\/a> <\/td>\n
Asem Ghaleb<\/a> ( First position: Software Engineer, Huawei, Canada, Four-Year Fellowship<\/a> awardee)****** <\/p>\nPhD (2023)<\/td>\nStatic Analysis Approaches for Finding Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts<\/a><\/td>\nPapers<\/a><\/td>\n\n<\/tr>\nZitao Chen<\/a> (First position: Assistant Professor, University of Kansas, US, Best Paper Award and Best Paper Runner up, DSN’21, SC’19 Paper Finalist for Reproducibility Initiative, FYF<\/a> awardee, Industry adoption<\/a>, UBC Public Scholar, DaaD scholarship<\/a>, Top Picks in test and reliability, 2024<\/a>)<\/td>\nPhD (2025)<\/td>\nAdvancing Privacy and Accountability in Machine Learning<\/a><\/td>\nPapers<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pritam Dash<\/a> (First Position: Researcher, Huawei Canada. Best Paper Award, DSN’21, Press coverage<\/a>, Presentation at Enigma’22<\/a>, FYF<\/a> awardee, CPS Rising Star 2024<\/a>)<\/td>\nPhD (2025)<\/td>\nSoftware solutions for mitigating physical attacks against robotic autonomous vehicles<\/a><\/p>\nPapers<\/a><\/td>\n\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Name <\/th>\n Degree, year <\/th>\n Thesis Title <\/th>\n Papers<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
MASc (n = 25)<\/strong><\/td>\n

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Jiesheng Wei<\/a> (First Position: Microsoft, Vancouver. Currently at Facebook, US.)<\/td>\n MASc (2012) <\/td>\n Hardware Error Detection in Multicore Parallel Programs <\/a><\/td>\n Papers<\/A> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Anna Thomas <\/a>(First position: IBM Toronto. Currently at Azul Systems.) <\/td>\n MASc (2013) <\/td>\n Error Detection for Soft Computing Applications<\/a> <\/td>\n Papers<\/A> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Majid Dadashi<\/a> (First position: 1QBit, Vancouver) <\/td>\n MASc (2014) <\/td>\n Integrated Hardware-Software Diagnosis of Intermittent Faults<\/a> <\/td>\n Papers<\/A> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sheldon Sequeira*** (First position: SAP, Vancouver) <\/td>\n MASc (2014) <\/td>\n Understanding Test Failures in JavaScript-Based Web Applications<\/a> <\/td>\n Papers<\/A> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Xin Chen (First position: CCB Fintech, China). Most Influential Paper Award at ISSRE’14<\/a>. <\/a> <\/td>\n MASc (2014) <\/td>\n Failure Characterization and Prediction in Compute Clouds<\/a> <\/td>\n Papers<\/A> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kartik Bajaj*** <\/a>(First position: Hootsuite, Vancouver. Currently at Salesforce). Four-Year Fellowship and MITACS Globalink Fellowship Awardee <\/td>\n MASc (2014) <\/td>\n Mining Web Application Developers’ Questions<\/a> <\/td>\n Papers<\/A>
\n<\/tr>\n
Qining Lu <\/a>(First position: Google, Canada) <\/td>\n MASc (2015) <\/td>\n Configurable Error Detection for SDC causing Errors<\/a> <\/td>\n Papers<\/A> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nithya Narayanamurthy<\/a> (First position: Oracle Labs, Vancouver. Currently at Amazon, Canada. ) Best Paper Award at EDCC 2015 (story<\/a>) <\/td>\n MASc (2015) <\/td>\n Finding resilience-friendly compiler optimizations using meta-heuristic search techniques<\/a> <\/td>\n Papers<\/A> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Abraham Chan (First Position: Huawei, Canada. Currently PhD student at UBC) <\/a><\/td>\n MASc (2017)<\/td>\n Error Propagation Analysis for Multi-threaded Programs<\/a> <\/td>\n Papers<\/A> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Maryam Raiyat (First Position: PhD student at Shahid Behesti University) <\/a> <\/td>\n MASc (2018)<\/td>\n Multi-Dimensional Invariant Detection for Cyber-Physical System Security<\/a> <\/td>\n Papers<\/A> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ekta Aggarwal (First position: Clio Software, Vancouver)<\/a>**** <\/td>\n MASc (2019) <\/td>\n CORGIDS: A Correlation-based Generic Intrusion Detection System<\/a> <\/td>\n Papers<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lucas Palazzi<\/a> (First Position: Data Realm Inc.)<\/td>\n MASc (2019) <\/td>\n Experimental evaluation of software-implemented fault injection at different levels of abstraction<\/a> <\/td>\n Papers<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Zitao Chen<\/a> (First Position: Research Programmer, UBC). SC’19 reproducibility challenge finalist, Best paper runner up – DSN’21 <\/td>\n MASc (2020) <\/td>\n Understanding and Improving the Error Resilience of Machine Learning Systems<\/a> <\/td>\n Papers<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Abdul Rehman Anwer<\/a> (First Position: Huawei, Canada) <\/td>\n MASc (2020) <\/td>\n Efficient Modeling of Error Propagation in GPU Programs<\/a> <\/td>\n Papers<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aarti Kashyap<\/a> (First Position: PhD student, UBC CS dept, Invited to attend the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF)<\/a> )<\/td>\n MASc (2020) <\/td>\n Security Analysis of Deep Neural Network-Based Cyber-Physical Systems<\/a> <\/td>\n – <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pritam Dash (First Position: PhD student, UBC, Work featured in media<\/a>) <\/td>\n MASc (2020) <\/td>\n Security Analysis of Robotic Vehicles Protected by Control-based Techniques<\/a> <\/td>\n Papers<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kumseok Jung<\/a> (First Position: PhD Student, UBC. Internship at Microsoft Research)<\/td>\n MASc (2021)<\/td>\n Platform-independent live process migration for edge computing applications<\/a> <\/td>\n Papers<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Niranjhana Narayanan<\/a> (First Position: Neat communications, Norway) <\/td>\n MASc (2021) <\/td>\n Fault Injection in Machine Learning Applications<\/a> <\/td>\n Papers<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rui Xi<\/a> (First Position: PhD Student, UBC. Internship at WonderFI)<\/td>\n MASc (2022)<\/td>\n A Large-Scale Empirical Study of Low-Level Function Use in Ethereum Smart Contracts and Automated Replacement<\/a> <\/td>\n Papers<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ali Asgari,<\/a> (Best paper nominee AISafety’21, First Position: Electronic Arts, Internship at Oracle Labs)****<\/td>\nMASc (2022)<\/td>\nStructural Coding: a low-cost scheme to protect CNNs from large-granularity memory errors<\/a><\/td>\nPapers<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Udit Agarwal<\/a> (Internship at Intel, Best of SELSE’23 paper, First Position: Huawei Canada, Current: Intel)<\/td>\n<\/td>\nMASc (2023) <\/td>\nAssessing the Resilience of Machine Learning Models<\/a><\/td>\nPapers<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Yingao (Elaine) Yao<\/a> (First Position: Fortinet Canada. Current: PhD student, Cornell Univ.)<\/td>\nMASc (2023) <\/td>\nFramework for discovering GPS spoofing attacks in drone swarms<\/a><\/td>\nPapers<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Amirhossein Ahmadi<\/a> (Best paper award at EdgeSys’23, Internship in Huawei, First Position: Huawei Canada)**<\/td>\nMASc (2024)<\/td>\nEdgeEngine: a thermal-aware optimization framework for edge inference<\/a><\/td>\nPapers<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mohammadreza Hallajiyan<\/a> (First position: Seaspan LLC)<\/td>\nMASc (2024)<\/td>\nSystem-Theoretic Process Analysis for Security forAI\/ML-enabled Medical Devices<\/a><\/td>\nPapers<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\nSeyedmani Sadati<\/a> (First Position: Huawei, Canada) <\/td>\nMASc (2025) <\/td>\nReliability Analysis of Deep Learning Accelerators via Software-Level Fault Injection<\/a><\/td>\nPapers<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

* Co-advised with Sathish Gopalakrishnan<\/a><\/p>\n

** Co-advised with Matei Ripeanu<\/a> <\/p>\n

*** Co-advised with Ali Mesbah<\/a> <\/p>\n

**** Co-advised with Andre Ivanov<\/a><\/p>\n

***** Co-advised with Prashant Nair<\/a><\/p>\n

****** Co-advised with Julia Rubin<\/a><\/p>\n

Post-Doc (n = 1):<\/B><\/a><\/p>\n

Julien Samson <\/a>(NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship<\/a>, first position: Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, ETS Montreal<\/a>) (Papers<\/A>)<\/p>\n

Visiting Graduate Students (n = 4):<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Yong (Alex) Yang, PhD student, Peking University. March – August 2019. (Papers<\/a>)<\/p\n\n\n\n

Behrooz Sangchoolie<\/a>, Chalmers University of Technology, Summer 2016. (Papers<\/a>) – Currently Researcher at RiSE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Arpan Gujarati<\/a>, PhD student, MPI-SWS*, February-March 2020. Winner of ACM SIGBED Dissertation Award. (Papers<\/a>) – Currently Assistant professor, UBC CS. <\/p>\n

Gargi Mitra<\/a>, PhD student (IIT Madras), MITACS Globalink Awardee. Currently: Post-doc reearcher at UBC. <\/p>\n

M.Eng. (n = 3):<\/B><\/a><\/p>\n

Jose Thomas<\/a>, 2018. (First position: Data Engineer, LotLinx, Canada)<\/p>\n

Ahmed Effat<\/a>, 2019. (First position: Software Development Engineer, AbeBooks (Amazon), Canada)\n<\/p>\n

Dan Jin<\/a>, 2024. (First position: Firmware Engineer, Intel, Canada)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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