Current Students in the MSc Program

Students Graduated with the Master of Science Degree

Syed Ali John Naqvi
September 2023 – February 2026
Thesis topic: Towards High Quality, Dynamic and Faster 3D Gaussian Splatting for Streaming
Defence date: February 23, 2026
Current Employment: Software Developer, Cisco, Ottawa, Ontario

Amir Allahveran
September 2023 – January 2026
Thesis topic: Towards Adaptive and Resource-Efficient Live Volumetric Video Streaming
Defence date: January 14, 2026
Current Employment: Site Reliability Engineer, Tyk, Calgary, Alberta

Reet Ghosh
September 2022 – June 2025
Thesis: ALF: An Automated Low-code Flexible Framework for Data Workflows (co-supervised with Dr. Usman Alim)
Defence date: June 19, 2025
Current Employment: Technology Specialist, TELUS, Calgary, Alberta

Hadi Heidarirad
September 2022 – June 2025
Thesis: Towards Practical and Resource-Efficient Volumetric Video Streaming
Defence date: June 4, 2025
Current Employment: Software Development Engineer in Test, Cisco, Ottawa, Ontario

Ali Shahidi
January 2021 – April 2024
Thesis: HoloType- AR-Based Educational Software for Nonspeaking Autistic People
Defence date: April 17, 2024
Current Employment: Software Developer, ETHEREAL Research Group, 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: Senior Software Developer (Remote), Confluent

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: Computational Neuroscience Researcher,
Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Calgary, Alberta

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 Development Engineer, Amazon, Seattle, USA

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, Keycafe, 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: 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 Ali Pour
September 2019 – January 2022
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 Engineer 2 (remote), Microsoft

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: Deep Learning Engineer, NVIDIA, Santa Clara, CA, USA

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 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: 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