Ph.D. Students
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 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.
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 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 can see in 2D images and videos.
Javier Noa Turnes

Javier Noa Turnes is a PhD candidate in Systems Design Engineering, supervised by Prof. David A. Clausi and Prof Linlin Xu. His main research field is machine learning on remote sensing applications. He is currently dedicated to sea ice classification using Synthetic Aperture Radar imagery and passive microwave data, studying the inclusion of large contextual information in deep learning models for semantic segmentation.
M.A.Sc. Students
Howard Nguyen-Huu

Howard is a Master’s student in Systems Design Engineering, co-supervised by Prof. David Clausi and Prof. Yuhao Chen as part of the Sports Analytics Research Group
Jayden Hsiao

Jayden is interested in the semantic segmentation of sea ice using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and passive microwave (PM) data to improve Indigenous community safety, climate modelling, and ship navigation.
Dmytro Klepachevskyi

MASc student working on multi-object tracking and object re-identification.
Kshitij Goyal
I am currently doing my master’s under the superivision of Prof. David Clausi and Prof. Yuhao Chen. My research falls in the intersection of classical machine learning, deep learning and computer vision.
Soyeon Jang

Soyeon is a master’s student in Systems Design Engineering, supervised by Prof. Paul Fieguth and Prof. Yuhao Chen. Currently, her research focuses on animal fur reconstruction and simulation.
Niloofar Azad

Niloofar is currently a MASc student in Systems Design Engineering, co-supervised by Prof. David Clausi and Prof. Linlin Xu at the University of Waterloo. She is a member of the Vision and Image Processing (VIP) Lab’s Remote Sensing Group, and her research interests include Machine Learning and Image Processing for Remote Sensing applications.
Liam Salass

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.
Junfeng Lei

M.A.Sc student in remote sensing research group.
