Alexander Wong – VISION AND IMAGE PROCESSING (VIP) RESEARCH GROUP https://vip.uwaterloo.ca The University of Waterloo's Vision and Image Processing Lab Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:05:46 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7 https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/cropped-favicon-32x32.png Alexander Wong – VISION AND IMAGE PROCESSING (VIP) RESEARCH GROUP https://vip.uwaterloo.ca 32 32 Ziyao Shang https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/ziyao-shang-2/ Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:05:46 +0000 https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/?p=4453 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.

Supervisors
Alexander Wong, Sirisha Rambhatla
Publications
Journal Articles

Conference Papers

Research interests
Research interests Biomedical Imaging, Image Segmentation/Classification
]]> Amy Tai https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/amy-tai/ Sun, 09 Feb 2025 01:06:08 +0000 https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/?p=4249 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 Sciences in the Systems Design Engineering program and her Bachelor of Applied Science in Management Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Outside of research, she enjoys playing squash, travelling, hiking, and swimming.

LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/amy-tai

Supervisors
Alexander Wong
Research interests
Amy’s research areas include medical image analysis, personalized nutrition intervention for the aging population, and improved rendering of 3D models. As a lead on the Cancer-Net initiatives, she is focused on providing open-sourced datasets and pre-trained models for the task of cancer diagnosis and prognosis, and nutritional intake estimation, respectively. In general, Amy is interested in medical research that leverages technological advancements to improve healthcare for all.
Research topics
Biomedical Imaging
Computer Vision
Image Segmentation/Classification
Research demos
Correlated Diffusion Imaging
Skin Cancer Detection
Publications
Journal Articles

Conference Papers

]]> Chang Liu https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/chang-liu/ Mon, 19 Feb 2024 01:25:52 +0000 https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/?p=3821 Chang is a Master’s student in Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo, co-supervised by Prof. Sirisha Rambhatla and Prof. Alex Wong. Chang’s research focus is on unsupervised domain adaptation in Computer Vision, with application to manufacturing and medical imaging.

Email: chang [dot] liu [at] uwaterloo [dot] ca

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/hellochang

Website: www.hellochang.com

X/Twitter: twitter.com/hellochangg

Supervisors
Alexander Wong, Sirisha Rambhatla
Research interests
Domain Adaptation, Semantic Segmentation, Computer Vision
]]> Vasyl Chomko https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/v-chomko/ Sat, 30 Dec 2023 21:13:49 +0000 https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/?p=3787
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
]]> Saeejith Nair https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/s-nair/ Tue, 28 Nov 2023 04:32:18 +0000 https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/?p=3735 Saeejith is an MASc student in Systems Design Engineering, supervised by Prof. Alexander Wong and Prof. Javad Shafiee. His research primarily involves improving machine learning architecture efficiency, with a focus on applications in embedded systems and robotics.

Email: smnair@uwaterloo.ca

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

Supervisors
Alexander Wong, M. Javad Shafiee
Research interests
Computer vision, efficient ML, robotics, embodied intelligence, evolutionary learning
Research topics
Computer Vision
Evolutionary Deep Intelligence
Publications
Journal Articles

Conference Papers

]]> Kimathi Kaai https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/k-kaai/ Mon, 23 Oct 2023 19:47:17 +0000 https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/?p=3658 Kimathi is pursuing his MASc as part of the Vision and Image Processing Lab, under the Systems Design Engineering department. His research focuses on how to adapt vision-based machine learning models to generalized new data distributions in scarce data settings.

Email: kkaai@uwaterloo.ca

Personal Website: kimathikaai.com

Supervisors
Alexander Wong, Sirisha Rambhatla
Research interests
Exploring domain generalization in the context of image-level and pixel-level classification tasks.
Publications
Journal Articles

Conference Papers

]]> Chris Dulhanty https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/c-dulhanty/ Fri, 01 Sep 2023 11:26:35 +0000 https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/?p=3569 Chris is a Robustness Analysis Machine Learning Engineer at Apple, where he works to anticipate, analyze, and mitigate technical and social failures of machine learning systems.

He completed his M.A.Sc. in Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo in 2020 as a member of the Vision and Image Processing Lab, supervised by Alexander Wong and David Clausi. His thesis was entitled “Issues in Computer Vision Data Collection: Bias, Consent, and Label Taxonomy.”

Supervisors
Alexander Wong, David Clausi
Publications
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Conference Papers

]]> Brennan Gebotys https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/b-gebotys/ Fri, 01 Sep 2023 11:07:48 +0000 https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/?p=3563 Brennan was a MASc student who worked on novel motion-aware strategies for efficient and accurate video analytics. His thesis highlights the significant potential of leveraging motion information in video analytics, particularly in the domains of pose estimation and action recognition. It introduces a novel approach, POOF (Pose annotation using Optical Flow), that remarkably reduces the annotation burden for pose estimation models while substantially improving accuracy. Additionally, the thesis presents M2A (Motion-Aware Attention), a breakthrough in action recognition, showcasing substantial accuracy enhancements by effectively incorporating motion information into attention-based mechanisms, making these models more efficient for real-world applications.

Supervisors
Alexander Wong, David Clausi
Publications
Journal Articles

Conference Papers

]]> Mehrnaz Fani https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/m-fani/ Fri, 01 Sep 2023 07:43:03 +0000 https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/?p=3549 Mehrnaz Fani was an Industrial Postdoctoral Fellow at Vision and Image Processing Lab (VIP) – Systems Design Eng., University of Waterloo, Oct. 2018 – Sept. 2022. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Eng. – Telecommunication Systems, from Shiraz University, Iran, in 2018. During her postdoc, she co-led a team of graduated students on the development of cutting-edge deep models for Hockey Video Analytics projects. This included collaboration with Stathletes Inc. on NHL data, and conducting research on homography estimation, players detection, tracking, 2D pose estimation, and action recognition from hockey videos. Mehrnaz, currently, works in industry and is focused on the research and development of advanced computer vision solutions for HD mapping for autonomous driving, from aerial images.

Email: fani.mehrnaz@gmail.com

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mehrnaz-fani/

Github: https://github.com/MehrnazFani

Supervisors
Alexander Wong, David Clausi, John Zelek

Research interests
My research interests are mainly in AI and machin learning, particularly deep learning and computer vision. I am especially interested in working with video and image data and designing novel solutions to address the real-world problems.
Research topics
Computer Vision
Image Segmentation/Classification
Sports Analytics
Video Analysis
Publications
Journal Articles

Conference Papers

]]> Mingzhe (Major) Jiang https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/m-jiang/ Mon, 28 Aug 2023 14:42:58 +0000 https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/?p=3520 Mingzhe Jiang (Graduate Student Member, IEEE) received a B.Eng. degree in electronic information engineering and an M.Eng. degree in signal and information processing from the Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China, in 2013 and 2016, respectively. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in systems design engineering at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada. His research interests include machine learning and image processing with applications in remote sensing.

Supervisors
Alexander Wong, David Clausi
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Journal Articles

Conference Papers

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