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)
Students Graduated with the Master of Science Degree
Ali Shahidi
January 2021 – April 2024
Thesis: HoloType- AR-Based Educational Software for Nonspeaking Autistic People
Defence date: April 17, 2024
Current Employment: MITACS Intern, TELUS, Calgary, Alberta
Akram Ansari
September 2021 – April 2024
Thesis: Advancing Temporal and Quality Adaptation in Video Streaming with AV1
Defence date: April 16, 2024
Current Employment: Software Developer, Huawei Canada, Calgary, Alberta
Navid Akbari
January 2021 – June 2023
Thesis: iStream: A Flexible Container-Based Testbed for Multimedia Streaming (co-supervised
with Dr. Diwakar Krishnamurthy)
Defence date: June 12, 2023
Current status: Software Developer, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Sonali Keshava Murthy Naik
September 2020 – June 2023
Thesis: Transcoding and Quality Enhancement for Real-time 360-degree Video Streaming(co-
supervised with Dr. Diwakar Krishnamurthy)
Defence date: June 12, 2023
Current status: Software Developer, Amazon, Toronto, Canada
Celina Ma
September 2020 – April 2023
Thesis: Enriched Story Experiences with a New Video Interaction Model
Defence date: April 13, 2023
Current status: Software Developer, Innobridge, Calgary, Alberta
Kyle Jorgensen
September 2019 – December 2022
Thesis: Utilizing Natural Language Processing to Produce and Present Film: An Exploratory
Analysis
Defence date: December 19, 2022
Current status: 2nd year PhD student
Asif Ali Mehmuda
September 2019 – November 2022
Thesis: Anti-Freeze: High-Quality Adaptive Live Streaming with Real-time Transcoder (co-
supervised with Dr. Diwakar Krishnamurthy)
Defence date: November 16, 2022
Current status: Software Developer, Wedge Networks,
Calgary, Alberta
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: Senior Software Developer, RBC, Calgary, Alberta
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: Senior Software 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: Business Intelligence Developer, Dakota Analytics Inc, 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: Site Reliability Engineer Site Reliability Engineer, Gorgias, Toronto, Ontario
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 EngineerAI Frameworks Enginee, Intel Corporation, Vancouver, British Columbia
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: CTO and Co-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: Senior Software 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: Specialist, Advanced Analytics, Data Science, Pembina Pipeline Corporation, 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: Senior Software Engineer, Getty Images, 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: Senior Software Engineer (remote), Elastic, Mountain View, California, USA