Current Students in the MSc Program
Reet Ghosh
September 2022 – Present
Thesis topic: Health Data Framework (co-supervised with Dr. Diwakar Krishnamurthy)
Hadi Heidarirad
September 2022 – Present
Thesis topic: Live Streaming System ({co-supervised with Dr. Diwakar Krishnamurthy)
Akram Ansari
September 2021 – Present
Thesis topic: Exploring Temporal Loss Tolerance of Video Codecs in Video Streaming
Navid Akbari
January 2021 – Present
Thesis topic: iStream: A Flexible Research Platform for Video Streaming Systems ({co-supervised with Dr. Diwakar Krishnamurthy)
Ali Shahidi
January 2021 – Present
Thesis topic: Building an Augmented Reality Communication HoloLen App for Verbally Challenged Individuals (co-supervised with Dr. Diwakar Krishnamurthy)
Sonali Keshava Murthy Naik
September 2020 – Present
Thesis topic: Real-time Video Transcoding for Live 360-degree Video Streaming(co-supervised with Dr.~Diwakar Krishnamurthy)
Celina Ma
September 2020 – Present
Thesis topic: Personalized Interactive Film with Anytime Story Guiding
Kyle Jorgensen
September 2019 – Present
Thesis topic: Context-Aware Question-Answer for Interactive Media Experiences
Asif Ali Mehmuda
September 2019 – Present
Thesis topic: Video Transcoding for Live Streaming (co-supervised with Dr. Diwakar Krishnamurthy)
Students Graduated with the Master of Science Degree
Navid Alipour
September 2019 – Present
Thesis topic: Oasis+: A Real-time Performance-Matching Emulator for IoT Systems (co-supervised with Dr.~Diwakar Krishnamurthy)
Defence date: January 5, 2022
Current Employment: Software Developer, SAP, Vancouver, British Columbia
Yang Liu
January 2019 – June 2021
Thesis: Exploring Temporal Loss Tolerance of Video Codecs for QoE Enhancement in Adaptive Streaming
Defence date: June 24, 2021
Current Employment: Backend Developer, RBC, Calgary, Alberta
Danny Fisher
September 2014 – November 2019
Thesis: A QoE Fairness Approach for Adaptive Video Streaming
Defence date: November 27, 2019
Current Employment: Developer, Cervus Equipment, Calgary, Alberta
Sajad Sameti
September 2017 – August 2019
Thesis: Distributed Video Transcoding for Live and Interactive Multimedia Applications
Defence date: August 19, 2019
Current Employment: DevOps Specialist, Gameloft, Montreal, QC
Abolfazl Samani
September 2015 – August 2017
Thesis title: Flow Maximization for Multimedia Streaming Service in SDN Networks
Defence date: August 31, 2017
Current Employment: AI Frameworks Enginee,
Bradley Rougeau
September 2013 – April 2017
Thesis title: A Demographic-driven Peer-Assisted CDN for Sharing User-Generated Media Content
Defence date: April 18, 2017
Current Employment: Lead Engineer and Founder, PayTickr, Calgary, Alberta
Vineet Sinha
September 2012 – March 2015
Thesis title: evalBox: A Cross-Platform Evaluation Framework for Network Systems
Defence date: March 26, 2015
Current Employment: Software Development Engineer, Amazon, Toronto, Ontario
Yang Li
September 2011 – January 2014
Thesis title: Task distribution in Data Centres (co-supervised with Carey Williamson)
Defence date: January 7, 2014
Current Employment: Data Scientist, Alliance Pipeline, Calgary, Alberta
Yongxin Liu
September 2011 – September 2013
Thesis title: Energy Eciency in Multimedia Streaming Systems
Defence date: September 20, 2013
Current Employment: Software QA Engineer, Amazon, Vancouver, British Columbia
Md. Tauhiduzzaman
September 2009 – November 2012
Thesis: Fighting Pollution Attacks in P2P Streaming Systems
Defence date: November 8, 2012
Current Employment: Software Developer, Community Natural Foods, Calgary, Alberta
Saikat Sarkar
September 2009 – April 2012
Thesis: An Empirical Analysis of Network Coding in Peer-to-Peer Video-on-Demand Systems
Defence date: April 30, 2012
Current Employment: Software Engineer II, Cisco, Calgary, Alberta