Sports Analytics – VISION AND IMAGE PROCESSING (VIP) RESEARCH GROUP

Kevin Li

Kevin Li — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:17:27 +0000

Kevin Li is a Masters student in the Systems Design Engineering program supervised by Prof. David Clausi and Prof. John Zelek. He is a member of the Sports Analytics Research Group, with research focusing on player re-identification.

Supervisors

David Clausi, John Zelek

Research topics

Sports Analytics
Video Analysis

Maria Koshkina

Maria Koshkina — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:05:28 +0000

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Sports Analytics Research Group, specializing in automatic video understanding for sports. I hold a PhD from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, York University and have over 15 years of experience as a professional software developer.

Personal website: https://mkoshkina.github.io/

Research interests

video understanding, multi-object tracking, action recognition

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Sports Analytics
Video Analysis

Kseniia (Ksusha) Buzko

Kseniia Buzko — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:33:34 +0000

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.

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kseniiabuzko/

Research topics

Computer Vision
Sports Analytics
Video Analysis

Supervisors

John Zelek, Yuhao Chen

Jerry (Jitao) Hu

Jerry Hu — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:53:13 +0000

Jerry (Jitao) Hu is a Master of Applied Science student in the Vision and Image Processing Lab at the University of Waterloo. He is in the Systems Design Engineering program and is supervised by Prof. David Clausi and Prof. Yuhao Chen. His research interests include computer vision, sports analytics, reinforcement learning, and robotics. Previously, he completed his Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Outside of his research, he enjoys playing basketball, travelling, photography, and cooking.

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jerryhu-jt

Supervisors

David Clausi, Yuhao Chen

Research topics

Computer Vision
Sports Analytics

Zhibo Wang

Zhibo Wang — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 21:24:44 +0000

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.

Supervisors

David Clausi, Sirisha Rambhatla

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Research topics

Computer Vision
Sports Analytics

Liam Salass

Liam Salass — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 20:21:29 +0000

Liam is a Master of Applied Science candidate in System Design Engineering at Waterloo. He completed his undergraduate studies at Queen’s University’s Smith School of Engineering in Computer Engineering. Liam’s previous research as an undergrad was in 6 degrees of freedom pose estimation as part of the RCVLab. Currently, Liam is contributing to the sports analytics research group (SARG) in VIP Lab.

Email: liam.salass@uwaterloo.ca
Github: https://github.com/Liamsalass
LinkedIn: (26) Liam Salass | LinkedIn

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Supervisors

David Clausi, John Zelek

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Jerrin Bright

Jerrin Bright — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 20:15:08 +0000

Jerrin Bright is a doctoral student in Systems Design Engineering, supervised by Prof. John Zelek associated with the Vision and Image Processing (VIP) Lab. 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 can see in 2D images and videos. Jerrin’s goal is to develop systems that can learn priors about the 4D world from visual data, enabling us to build more realistic and interactive virtual environments centered around human activity.

Before this, he completed his Master’s degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and his Bachelor’s degree from Vellore Institute of Technology, India where he explored diverse research topics including SLAM for UAVs, visual odometry, camera calibration, and mechanical designing and simulations for ground vehicles, UAVs and VTOLs.

Email: jerrin.bright@uwaterloo.ca
Portfolio: https://jerrinbright.github.io/

Supervisors

John Zelek

Research interests

Jerrin’s research interests include 3D human modeling, motion synthesis, human pose estimation, and scene reconstruction.

Research topics

Computer Vision
Sports Analytics

Howard Nguyen-Huu

Howard Nguyen-Huu — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 21:59:42 +0000

I’m Howie, a Master’s student in Systems Design Engineering. I am co-supervised by Prof. David Clausi and Prof. Yuhao Chen and am part of the Sports Analytics Research Group. Previously, I have interned as a Machine Learning Engineer at Altis Labs, a Robotics Software Engineer at Ocado Intelligent Automation (formerly Kindred AI), and a Robotics Research Assistant at the Multi-Scale Additive Manufacturing Lab.

Email: hnguyenh [at] uwaterloo [dot] ca

GitHub: https://github.com/howird

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/howird/

Website: https://howird.com

Room: EC4 2038A

Supervisors

David Clausi, Yuhao Chen

Research interests

Computer Vision for Pose Estimation & Object Detection, Scene Understanding, Simulated Data Generation, Robotics

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Vasyl Chomko

Vasyl Chomko — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 21:13:49 +0000

I am Vasyl Chomko, a Master of Applied Science student in Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo.

My fundamental interest lies in the synergy of mathematics and computer science, which was fostered during my undergraduate studies at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and has been a cornerstone of my academic path. My professional experience as a software developer and DevOps engineer led me to the fascinating field of computer vision and visual image processing. Coupled with my background as a professional athlete, this has naturally led me to focus on sports analytics, applying my technical skills to work on better capturing and processing key elements of athletes’ equipment for further game strategy analysis.

Outside of my academic and professional interests, I am actively exploring various smart devices and developing simple time-saving software applications, while also devoting some time to a personal passion – rowing.

Email: vchomko@uwaterloo.ca
GitHub: github.com/1Basile
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/vasia-chomko

Supervisors

Alexander Wong, David Clausi

Research interests

Computer Vision for Sports Analytics, Cross-disciplinary Research, Pose Estimation, Video Analysis, Fake News Detection using NLP

Research topics

Computer Vision
Image Segmentation/Classification
Sports Analytics
Video Analysis

Ken M. Nsiempba

Ken Nsiempba — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 16:58:55 +0000

I was born and raised in the greater Montreal area and am currently pursuing my PhD studies at the University of Waterloo in the Systems Design Engineering department. I completed my undergraduate degree at McGill University and obtained my master’s degree from the University of Waterloo in Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering. I started my PhD after working in the industry for three years.

https://botengu.github.io/portfolio

Supervisors

David Clausi, John Zelek

Research interests

As a trained mechanical engineer, I have cultivated proficiency in computational design. This, in turn, lead me to delve into the realm of computer vision. My research field is computer vision for sports analytics. Mainly, I teach computers how to interpret ice hockey games events by improving player tracking, action recognition and play detection.

Research topics

Computer Vision
Sports Analytics

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