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Current Students in the MSc Program<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Rachel Ralph
\nSeptember 2025 – Present
\nThesis topic: Volumetric Video Streaming<\/p>\n

Sumanyu Arya
\nSeptember 2025 – Present
\nThesis topic: Volumetric Video Streaming<\/p>\n

Timothy George
\nSeptember 2025 – Present
\nThesis topic: Data pipeline<\/p>\n

Omar Tarek Mahmoud Elsayed
\nSeptember 2025 – Present
\nThesis topic : XR Space<\/p>\n

Ahmad Al Asad
\n<\/span>September 2024 – Present
\nThesis topic: Volumetric Video Streaming for eXtended Reality<\/span><\/p>\n

Saad Zafar Khan
\nSeptember 2024 – Present
\nThesis topic: Space creation in eXtended Reality<\/p>\n

Sepehr Ganji
\nSeptember 2023 – Present
\nThesis topic: Remote Rendering for eXtended Reality (co-supervised with Dr. Diwakar Krishnamurthy)<\/p>\n

Wamika Jha
\nSeptember 2023 \u00a0Present
\nThesis topic: Machine Learning Models Empowering Health Data Science (co-supervised with Dr. Usman Alim)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Students Graduated with the Master of Science Degree<\/strong><\/p>\n

Syed Ali John Naqvi
\nSeptember 2023 – February 2026
\nThesis topic: Towards High Quality, Dynamic and Faster 3D Gaussian Splatting for Streaming
\nDefence date: February 23, 2026
\nCurrent Employment: Software Developer, Cisco, Ottawa, Ontario<\/p>\n

Amir Allahveran
\nSeptember 2023 – January 2026
\nThesis topic: Towards Adaptive and Resource-Efficient Live Volumetric Video Streaming
\nDefence date: January 14, 2026
\nCurrent Employment: Site Reliability Engineer, Tyk, Calgary, Alberta<\/p>\n

Reet Ghosh
\nSeptember 2022 – June 2025
\nThesis: ALF: An Automated Low-code Flexible Framework for Data Workflows\u00a0(co-supervised with Dr. Usman Alim)
\n<\/span>Defence date: June 19, 2025
\nCurrent Employment: Technology Specialist, TELUS, Calgary, Alberta<\/p>\n

Hadi Heidarirad
\nSeptember 2022 – June 2025
\nThesis: Towards Practical and Resource-Efficient Volumetric Video Streaming
\nDefence date: June 4, 2025
\nCurrent Employment: Software Development Engineer in Test, Cisco, Ottawa, Ontario<\/p>\n

Ali Shahidi
\nJanuary 2021 – April 2024
\nThesis: HoloType- AR-Based Educational Software for Nonspeaking Autistic People
\nDefence date: April 17, 2024
\nCurrent Employment: Software Developer, ETHEREAL Research Group, Calgary, Alberta<\/p>\n

Akram Ansari
\nSeptember 2021 – April 2024
\nThesis: Advancing Temporal and Quality Adaptation in Video Streaming with AV1
\nDefence date: April 16, 2024
\nCurrent Employment: Senior Software Developer (Remote), Confluent<\/p>\n

Navid Akbari
\nJanuary 2021 – June 2023
\nThesis: iStream: A Flexible Container-Based Testbed for Multimedia Streaming (co-supervised with Dr. Diwakar Krishnamurthy)
\nDefence date: June 12, 2023
\nCurrent status: Computational Neuroscience Researcher,
\nHotchkiss Brain Institute, Calgary, Alberta<\/p>\n

Sonali Keshava Murthy Naik
\nSeptember 2020 – June 2023
\nThesis: Transcoding and Quality Enhancement for Real-time 360-degree Video Streaming(co-supervised with Dr. Diwakar Krishnamurthy)
\nDefence date: June 12, 2023
\nCurrent status: Software Development Engineer, Amazon, Seattle, USA<\/p>\n

Celina Ma
\nSeptember 2020 – April 2023
\nThesis: Enriched Story Experiences with a New Video Interaction Model
\nDefence date: April 13, 2023
\nCurrent status: Software Developer, Keycafe, Calgary, Alberta<\/p>\n

Kyle Jorgensen
\nSeptember 2019 – December 2022
\nThesis: Utilizing Natural Language Processing to Produce and Present Film: An Exploratory Analysis
\nDefence date: December 19, 2022
\nCurrent status: PhD student<\/p>\n

Asif Ali Mehmuda
\nSeptember 2019 – November 2022
\nThesis: Anti-Freeze: High-Quality Adaptive Live Streaming with Real-time Transcoder (co-supervised with Dr. Diwakar Krishnamurthy)
\nDefence date: November 16, 2022
\nCurrent status: Software Developer, Wedge Networks, Calgary, Alberta<\/p>\n

Navid Ali Pour
\nSeptember 2019 – January 2022
\nThesis topic: Oasis+: A Real-time Performance-Matching Emulator for IoT Systems (co-supervised with Dr. Diwakar Krishnamurthy)
\nDefence date: January 5, 2022
\nCurrent Employment: Software Engineer 2 (remote), Microsoft<\/p>\n

Yang Liu
\nJanuary 2019 – June 2021
\nThesis: Exploring Temporal Loss Tolerance of Video Codecs for QoE Enhancement in Adaptive Streaming
\nDefence date: June 24, 2021
\nCurrent Employment: Senior Software Developer, RBC, Calgary, Alberta<\/p>\n

Danny Fisher
\nSeptember 2014 – November 2019
\nThesis: A QoE Fairness Approach for Adaptive Video Streaming
\nDefence date: November 27, 2019
\nCurrent Employment: Business Intelligence Developer, Dakota Analytics Inc, Calgary, Alberta<\/p>\n

Sajad Sameti
\nSeptember 2017 – August 2019
\nThesis: Distributed Video Transcoding for Live and Interactive Multimedia Applications
\nDefence date: August 19, 2019
\nCurrent Employment: Site Reliability Engineer Site Reliability Engineer, Gorgias, Toronto, Ontario<\/p>\n

Abolfazl Samani
\nSeptember 2015 – August 2017
\nThesis title: Flow Maximization for Multimedia Streaming Service in SDN Networks
\nDefence date: August 31, 2017
\nCurrent Employment: Deep Learning Engineer, NVIDIA, Santa Clara, CA, USA<\/p>\n

Bradley Rougeau
\nSeptember 2013 – April 2017
\nThesis title: A Demographic-driven Peer-Assisted CDN for Sharing User-Generated Media Content
\nDefence date: April 18, 2017
\nCurrent Employment: CTO and Co-founder, PayTickr, Calgary, Alberta<\/p>\n

Vineet Sinha
\nSeptember 2012 – March 2015
\nThesis title: evalBox: A Cross-Platform Evaluation Framework for Network Systems
\nDefence date: March 26, 2015
\nCurrent Employment: Senior Software Development Engineer, Amazon, Toronto, Ontario<\/p>\n

Yang Li
\nSeptember 2011 – January 2014
\nThesis title: Task distribution in Data Centres (co-supervised with Carey Williamson)
\nDefence date: January 7, 2014
\nCurrent Employment: Specialist, Advanced Analytics, Data Science, Pembina Pipeline Corporation, Calgary, Alberta<\/p>\n

Yongxin Liu
\nSeptember 2011 – September 2013
\nThesis title: Energy Eciency in Multimedia Streaming Systems
\nDefence date: September 20, 2013
\nCurrent Employment: Software QA Engineer, Amazon, Vancouver, British Columbia<\/p>\n

Md. Tauhiduzzaman
\nSeptember 2009 – November 2012
\nThesis: Fighting Pollution Attacks in P2P Streaming Systems
\nDefence date: November 8, 2012
\nCurrent Employment: Senior Software Engineer, Getty Images, Calgary, Alberta<\/p>\n

Saikat Sarkar
\nSeptember 2009 – April 2012
\nThesis: An Empirical Analysis of Network Coding in Peer-to-Peer Video-on-Demand Systems
\nDefence date: April 30, 2012
\nCurrent Employment: Senior Software Engineer (remote), Elastic, Mountain View, California, USA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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