University of Waterloo

Category: Ph.D.

  • Soheil Soltani

    Soheil Soltani is a machine learning engineer and researcher with over six years of experience building AI-powered systems across various industries. His core expertise spans computer vision, anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, and large language models — including multi-agent systems, retrieval-augmented generation, and natural language interfaces — with a track record of deploying robust solutions in…

  • Youssef Nafea

    Youssef Nafea

    I am Youssef, a PhD candidate in Systems Design Engineering (SYDE) at the University of Waterloo. My research focuses on remote sensing, with an emphasis on sea ice classification and cloud detection using machine learning and satellite imagery. I hold a Master’s degree in Natural Language Processing and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering.

  • Kseniia (Ksusha) Buzko

    Kseniia (Ksusha) Buzko

    Kseniia (Ksusha) Buzko is a PhD student in the Systems Design Engineering program. She is supervised by Prof. John Zelek and Prof. Yuhao Chen. Her research interests include video understanding, action recognition, and video generation.

  • Ziyao Shang

    Ziyao Shang

    Ziyao is a PhD student in Systems Design Engineering, co-supervised by Prof. Sirisha Rambhatla and Prof. Alex Wong. Ziyao is a member of the Critical ML Lab.

  • Amy Tai

    Amy Tai

    Amy Tai is a PhD student in the Vision and Image Processing Lab at the University of Waterloo. She is in the Computer Science program and supervised by Alexander Wong and Lukasz Golab. Her research focuses on the cancer domain with focus on medical imaging and computer vision. Previously, she completed her Master of Applied…

  • Zhibo Wang

    Zhibo Wang

    Zhibo is a Ph.D. student in Systems Design Engineering, co-supervised by Prof. David Clausi and Prof. Sirisha Rambhatla. He is a member of the Sports Analytics Research Group, and his research will focus on pose estimation and action recognition for ice-hockey game.

  • Jerrin Bright

    Jerrin Bright

    Jerrin Bright is a doctoral student in Systems Design Engineering. Jerrin’s research focuses on understanding and interacting with the dynamic, 3D world around us, with a particular emphasis on human behavior. By combining computer vision, computer graphics, and machine learning, Jerrin is exploring how to capture, perceive, and understand the 4D world from what we…

  • Ken M. Nsiempba

    Ken M. Nsiempba

    Ken is a PhD student, he teaches computers how to interpret ice hockey games events by improving player tracking, action recognition and play detection.

  • Peter Q. Lee

    Peter Q. Lee

    Peter Lee is currently a PhD student (2020 – ) supervised by Prof. Katja Mombaur and Prof. John Zelek. His research interests include optimal control, compliant control with force feedback, and visual servoing. He is currently working to automate the nasopharyngeal swab test using the collaborative Franka Emika 1 research arm.

  • Kanav Vats

    Kanav Vats

    Kanav was a PhD Candidate at the University of Waterloo, supervised by Prof. David Clausi and Prof. John Zelek. He worked on computer vision-based sports analytics, with a focus on problems such as player tracking, player identification, event detection, and pose estimation.