{"id":198,"date":"2017-08-01T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T09:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rushmore.wpcolorlab.com\/?page_id=198"},"modified":"2025-06-09T03:37:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T07:37:34","slug":"our-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wiser.cas.mcmaster.ca\/?page_id=198","title":{"rendered":"Our Team"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Faculty Member<\/h3>
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Prof. Rong Zheng<\/h3>
PhD, PEng\r\n<\/div>
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Postdoctoral Fellow<\/h3>
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Mihail Georgiev<\/h3><\/a>
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Students<\/h3>
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Billy Chan<\/h3><\/a>
MEng Student<\/div>
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Mason Kadem<\/h3><\/a>
PhD Student<\/div>
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Longyun Liao<\/h3><\/a>
PhD Student<\/div>
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Andrew Mitchell<\/h3><\/a>
PhD Student<\/div>
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Jingjing Qian<\/h3><\/a>
PhD Student<\/div>
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Bodee Quansah<\/h3><\/a>
PhD Student<\/div>
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Margaret Xie<\/h3><\/a>
Ph.D. student<\/div>
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Renjie Xu<\/h3><\/a>
PhD Student<\/div>
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Yunkai Yu<\/h3><\/a>
PhD Student<\/div>
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Navid Zandi<\/h3><\/a>
PhD Student<\/div>
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Yangyang Zhang<\/h3><\/a>
M.Eng Student<\/div>
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Zimeng Zhou<\/h3><\/a>
M.A.Sc student<\/div>
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Visiting Scholars\/Students:<\/h3>
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Alan Ojeda Ortiz<\/h3><\/a>
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Alumni<\/h3>
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Ge Chen (MEng)<\/a><\/h3><\/a>
Software Engineer
\r\nFord Motor Company <\/div>
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Awny M. El-Mohandes (PDF)<\/a><\/h3><\/a>
ASIC Design Engineer
\r\nCiena \r\n<\/div>
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Yihao Fang (PhD)<\/a><\/h3><\/a>
Founder of Lexivalley Inc.;
\r\nResearcher at Queen's University<\/div>
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Cristian Frincu (MSc)<\/a><\/h3><\/a>
Software Engineer
\r\nAmazon<\/div>
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Zhe Gong (MEng)<\/a><\/h3><\/a>
Senior Software Engineering
\r\nTikTok<\/div>
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M. Hammouda (MASc)<\/a><\/h3><\/a>
Digital Payload System Architect
\r\nMDA <\/div>
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Yujiao Hao (PhD)<\/a><\/h3><\/a>
Research Engineer
\r\nHuawei Canada<\/div>
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Mehdi Jafarizadeh (PhD)<\/a><\/h3><\/a>
5G Development Lead
\r\nShabodi<\/div>
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Hongbin Jia (MEng)<\/a><\/h3><\/a>
Senior Machine Learning\/Data Engineer
\r\nScotiabank<\/div>
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Boyu Jiang (MASc)<\/a><\/h3><\/a>

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Chenhe Li (MSc)<\/a><\/h3><\/a>
Senior Engineer
\r\nHuman-Machine Interaction Lab, Huawei Canada<\/div>
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Jun (Tyler) Li (MSc)<\/a><\/h3><\/a>
Hardware Engineer
\r\nHuawei<\/div>
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Wenbo Liu (MEng)<\/a><\/h3><\/a>
Software Engineer
\r\nWayfair<\/div>
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Tianwei Liu (MEng) <\/a><\/h3><\/a>
Software Engineer
\r\nWorkday<\/div>
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Jianpeng Liu (MEng)<\/a><\/h3><\/a>
Research Assistant
\r\nCanChild Research Group<\/div>
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Xijian Lou (MSc)<\/a><\/h3><\/a>
Software engineer
\r\nUnity<\/div>
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Shervin Manzuri<\/a><\/h3><\/a>
Data Scientist
\r\nGoldSpot Discoveries Corp<\/div>
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Nazanin Moshtagh (MEng)<\/a><\/h3><\/a>
Software Development Engineer
\r\nPublicis Sapient<\/div>
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Keivan Nalaie (PhD)<\/a><\/h3><\/a>
Anesthesiology \/AI Postdoctoral Research Fellow
\r\nMayo Clinic<\/div>
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Yongqi Pi (MEng)<\/a><\/h3><\/a>
Software Developer
\r\nFord Motor Company<\/div>
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Arooj A. Qureshi (MEng)<\/a><\/h3><\/a>
Developer, Data Science - MLOps Specialist at Bell;
\r\nData Instructor at EdX \u00b7 Seasonal<\/div>
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Ala Shaabana (PhD)<\/a><\/h3><\/a>
Researching neural nets
\r\nBittensor, uWaterloo<\/div>
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Yu-Ting Wang (MSc)<\/a><\/h3><\/a>
Software Designer
\r\nEvertz Microsystems Ltd<\/div>
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Yongyong Wei (PhD)<\/a><\/h3><\/a>
SAP

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Marshall Wice (MEng)<\/a><\/h3><\/a>
Software engineer
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Xiang Xiao (MEng)<\/a><\/h3><\/a>
Software Dev Engineer II
\r\nAmazon<\/div>
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Qiang Xu (PhD)<\/a><\/h3><\/a>
Senior Principal Engineer, Research Lead
\r\nHuawei HMI Lab, Canada<\/div>
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Xiaodong Xu (MEng)<\/a><\/h3><\/a>
Software Engineer
\r\nMeta<\/div>
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Quan Yuan (MEng)<\/a><\/h3><\/a>
Data Engineer
\r\nEricsson\r\n<\/div>
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Ruizhe Zhang (MEng)<\/a><\/h3><\/a>
Software Development Engineer
\r\nAmazon Web Services (AWS)<\/div>
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Tianyuan Zhang (MEng)<\/a><\/h3><\/a>
Software Developer
\r\nIBM Canada Software Lab - Toronto<\/div>
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Bo Zhang (PDF)<\/a><\/h3><\/a>
Developer Advanced Systems
\r\nRaySecur Inc.<\/div>
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Wei Zhao<\/a><\/h3><\/a>
Lecturer
\r\nDalian Maritime University\r\n<\/div>
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Chen Zhu (MEng)<\/a><\/h3><\/a>
Software Engineer 2
\r\nMicrosoft<\/div>
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Previous Visiting Scholars\/Students<\/h3>
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Yidong Jiang<\/h3><\/a>
undergraduate student\r\n
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Haifen Lin<\/h3><\/a>
Professor
\r\nNanjing Forestry University<\/div>
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Chuan Liu<\/h3><\/a>
MASc student\r\n
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Can Xue<\/h3><\/a>
PhD student
\r\nZhejiang University<\/div>
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Chaokun Zhang<\/h3><\/a>
Associate professor
\r\nTianjing University<\/div>
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