
Maryam Mehri Dehnavi
Lab Director
STUDENTS

Kazem Cheshmi
PhD Candidate
MSc – Tehran University
Awards: Wolfond fellowship, Adobe fellowship 2018, the grand final award of the 2017 ACM SRC competitions, HPCS18 best poster, CGO travel award, ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship.
Research: Compilers and numerical methods and computer graphics
Current: Assistant Professor at McMaster University.

Bangtian Liu
PhD Candidate
MSc – Tsinghua University
Research: Compilers and verification

Behrooz Zare
PhD Student
MSc – Sharif University
Research: Compilers and numerical methods

Saeed Soori
PhD Candidate
BSc-MSc – Tehran University
Awards: Rutgers fellowship, PLDI travel award, 1st place Tehran University in Control Engineering
Research: Machine learning and cloud
Current: Senior Researcher at Huawei Canada

Mohammad Mozaffari
PhD Student
BSc– University of Tehran
Research: Machine learning and optimization

Faraz Shahsavan
PhD Student
BSc– University of Tehran
Research: Compilers and Code Generation

Lucas Wilkinson
MSc Student
BSc – University of Waterloo
Research: Deep Learning Accelerators

Avery Laird
MSc Student
BEng – Zhejiang University
BSc – Simon Fraser University
Research: Compilers

Adam Adli
MSc Student
BSc – University of Toronto
Awards: St. Michael’s College Silver Medal
Research: Deep Learning

Zachary Centinic
MSc Student
BSc – McMaster University
Awards: Dean’s Honors List, NSERC USRA
Research: Compilers and code generation

Jianda (Kinder) Chen
Master of Applied Computing
BSc – University of Toronto
Research: Deep learning

Yongzhen (George) Huang
Undergraduate Researcher
BSc – University of Toronto
Awards: NSERC USRA
Research: Compilers and machine learning
Current: Quantitative Developer at RBC Capital Markets
Alumni
Zachary Blanco
– Now at the MIT Lincoln Lab and UC San Diego
Aadtiya Shukla
– Now data scientist at IBM Research
Yuanxi Li
– Now at Amazon
George Sakkas
– Now at UCSD