Training of Highly Qualified Personnel (HQP)

Graduate Student Supervision

Completed

1. Ali Hmer. PhD(Sept 2007 - April 2013). A Parallel Hybrid Metaheuristic Approach for Timetabling.

2. Amrudee Sukpan. PhD(Sept 2002 - July 2008). Conditional and Composite (Temporal) Constraint Satisfaction Problems.

3. Ahmed Mobaraki, MSc (May 2011 - December 2013). A CSP Solver using GPUs.

4. Reza Abbasian, MSc (Sept 2010 - April 2012). A Hierarchical Parallel GA Based Approach for Constraint Problems.

5. Bandar Mohammed, MSc (Sept 2009 - Dec 2011). Managing Constraints and Preferences in Interactive Applications.

6. Eisa Alanazi, MSc (May 2009 - Sept. 2011). Managing Constraints with Preferences and Uncertainty.

7. Farnaz Ghavamifar. MSc(Jan 2008 - Oct 2010). A Novel Trustful Multi-Attribute Reverse Auction (Co-supervision).

8. Bahareh Jafari. MSc(Sept 2007 - March 2010). Using Non-Systematic Algorithms for Variable and Value Ordering in CSPs.

9. Nurul Anwar. MSc(Sept 2003 - July 2008). Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) for Common Services.

10. Rasem Rashid. MSc(Sept 2004 - June 2008). Solving the Professor to Class Assignment Problem using CSPs.

11. Roger Barbour. MSc(Jan 2006 - April 2008). Reduction of Complexity in Path Finding Using Grid Based Methods.

12. Jia Liu. MSc(Sept 2005 - March 2008). Managing Temporal Constraints with Uncertainty.

13. Chang Feng. MSc(Sept 2005 - Dec 2007). Solving Combinatorial Queries in Relational Database (Co-supervision).

14. Colin Witow. MSc(Sep 2004 - October 2006). Multiple Robot Collaboration.

15. Xiao Feng Li. MSc(Sept 2004 - October 2006). A UML-Based Solver Tool for Combinatorial Problems (Co-supervision).

16. Xinkai Feng. MSc(Sept 2003 - July 2005). A Study of Branch and Bound for Incremental Satisfiability Problem.

17. Wang Chonghai. MSc(Sept 2003 - July 2005). A Study of Approximation Techniques for Incremental SAT and MAX-SAT.

In progress

1. Eisa Alanazi, PhD(from Jan. 2013). Preference-based Constrained Optimization under Change and Uncertainty.

2. Ahmad Nesir Zghoul , PhD (from Sept. 2012). Constraint Optimization.

3. Bandar Mohammed, PhD (from Jan 2012). Qualitative and Quantitative Preference Elicitation. (Co-supervision)

4. Munira Al-Ageili. PhD (from Jan 2009). Ontology for Spatial and Temporal Reasoning in GIS with Uncertainty.

5. Shu (Jessie) Zhang, MSc (from Sept. 2012). Evolutionary Techniques for Robot Motion Planning. (Co-supervision)

6. Waleed Alghamdi, MSc (from May 2012). Multiple Robot Navigation in a Dynamic Environment.

7. Ket Wei, MSc (from May 2014). A Study of Variable Ordering Heuristics in CSPs.

8. Xuegang Wang, MSc (from Sept. 2014). Managing CSPs with Preferences for Pattern Mining.

Member of the Doctoral Supervisory Committee

1. Abbas Dehghan. PhD, Faculty of Engineering. Inspection And Quality Control Of Pipes Using Optical Lasers. Internal-External Examiner.

2. Mehdi Sadeqi. PhD, Dept. of CS. Internal Examiner.

3. Rahim Samei. PhD, Dept. of CS. Computational Learning Theory. Internal Examiner.

Thesis Defense Examination Committees

External Examiner

1. Shimaa Mansour Moailak El-Sherif. PhD, Univ. of Calgary. Concept Learning Supported Semantic Search Using Multi-Agent System Based on Social Networks. March 2014.

2. Hamed Shafiee Hasanabadi. PhD, Faculty of Engineering. An Application of Artificial Neural Networks in Forcasting Future Oil Price Return Volatilities. Internal-External Examiner, April 2014.

3. Sultan Alshehri. PhD, Faculty of Engineering. AHPBased Methodology for a Complex Decision Support in Extreme Programming. Internal-External Examiner. December 2013.

4. Mamata Pandey. PhD, Dept. of Psychology. Can Meaning Associated with Perceptual Grouping Modulate Attention?. Internal-External Examiner. April 2013.

5. Mohamed Abu ElIla. PhD, Faculty of Engineering. A Framework for Divisible Load E-Science Applications in Optical Grids. Internal-External Examiner. April 2013.

6. Lamia Belouaer. PhD, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Caen, France. Spatial Knowledge Representation For Planning. December 2011.

7. Tansel Ozyer. PhD, Univ. of Calgary. Alternative Approaches for Producing and Ranking Alternative Clustering. August 2006.

8. Saber Elmabrouk. PhD, Faculty of Engineering. Application Of Function Approximations To Reservoir Engineering. Internal-External Examiner, January 2012 (Internal-External Examiner).

9. Abdullah Al-Ahmari. PhD, Mathematics. Tracial and Rank Equivalence of Representations in Von Neumann Algebras. October 2009 (Internal-External Examiner).

10. Yan Yang. PhD, Faculty of Engineering, Univ. of Regina. Multi Agents and CSPs. May 2007 (Internal-External Examiner).

11. Simerjit Gill. MSc, Engineering. Agent Modeling of Healthcare for Type-2 Diabetes. 2010.

12. Miaomiao Chen, MSc, Dept. of Math, Univ. of Regina. Confidence Intervals Based on Dependent Bootstrap Procedure. September 2009.

13. Lamia Belouaer. MSc, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Caen, France. The Complex Temporal and Causal Relations in Causal Networks. October 2008.

14. Mamata Pandey. MA, Dept. of Psychology, Univ. of Regina. Capacity Limited Resources and Task Switching: A Study of Human Ability to Carry Out Multiple Processes Concurrently. July 2008.

15. Zhen Wang. MSc, Dept. of Math, Univ. of Regina. A Study on the Hajek-Renyi Inequality and its Applications. November 2007.

16. Bashar Rashid. MASc, Faculty of Engineering, Univ. of Regina. Service-Oriented Wireless Grid Architecture. June 2007.

17. Mohamed Amin. MASc, Faculty of Engineering, Univ. of Regina. Resources Sharing Amongst Wireless Devices Using Wireless Grid. Sept 2006.

18. Chaiyapol Kulpate. MASc, Faculty of Engineering, Univ. of Regina. A Novel Visual Servoing Structure for 3D Positioning of a Robotic Arm. July 2005.

Internal Examiner, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Regina

1. Sadra Abedinzadeh. PhD, Dept. of CS. Agent Trust Management Based On Human Plausible Reasoning And Rough Sets. Internal Examiner. November 2013.

2. Wen Yan. PhD, Dept. of CS. d-Separation: Strong Completeness of Semantics in Bayesian Network Inference. May 2013.

3. Mondelle Simeon. PhD. Discovering Group Differences from Qualitative and Quantitative Attributes Using Contrast Set Mining with Discretization and Measures of Interestingness. September 2012.

4. Bing Zhou. PhD. A Cost-Sensitive Approach to Ternary Classification. July 2012.

5. Joseph Herbert. PhD. Investigating Machine Learning Decision Problems with Game Theory. November 2010.

6. Babar Majeed. MSc. Pursuit Evasion in Simple Polygons. March 2014.

7. Spoorthy Seenappa. MSc. Procrustes: A Declarative Scene Modelling System. September 2012.

8. Marian Moise. MSc. A New Approach to Face Recognition Based on Generalized Hough Transform and Local Image Descriptors. August 2012.

9. Shuo Wang. MSc. Development Of Inexact Optimization Methodologies For Resources And Environmental Management Under Dual Uncertainties. November 2010.

10. Xinglin Zhang. MSc. Chord Recognition Using Ensemble Voicing Constrains. Jan 2010.

11. Nima Sharifimehr. MSc. Markovian Workload Modeling for Enterprise Application Servers. May 2008.

12. Luo Ni. MSc. Multicasting for Sources with Multiple Descriptions. April 2008.

13. Jia Chen. MSc. Performance Evaluation of Peer-to-Peer Networks. December 2007.
14. Kenneth Konkel. MSc. Modern Bayesian Network Implementation. December 2007.
15. Simon Orr. MSc. A Module System for Isolating Untrusted Software Extensions. Sept 2006.
16. Siritorn Srisodsai. MSc. A Multi-Language Information Searching Tool with Agent-Based Web Services. Sept 2006.
17. Trevor Mansui. MSc. Characterizing the Use of WORDNET in Text Classification. July 2006.

18. Joseph Herbert. MSc. A Game Theoretic Approach to Competitive Learning in Self Organizing Maps. March 2006.

19. Wei Zeng. MSc. Parallel Approach to Mining Summaries from Databases. June 2005.
20. Bo Chen. MSc. Formal Specifications of AIPs and CSPs. April 2004.
21. Yin Pengzhou. MSC. Component Generalization and Instantiation. April 2004.
22. Honglan Zhong. MSc. Integrated Approach for Database Security and Fault Tolerance. May 2004.
23. Ming Zhang. MSc. Study on Querying and Mining XML. 2004.
24. Zhiyong Lu. MSc. Mining Ordered Patterns in Sequences. 2004.

Chair of Theses Defense Committees

1. Mammad Huseynov. MASc, Thermodynamic and Experimental Studies of Ethane Solubility in Promising Ionic Liquids for CO2 Capture. Faculty of Engineering, Univ. of Regina. July 2014.

2. Yogesh Suman. MASc, Faculty of Engineering, Univ. of Regina. December 2013.

3. Irfan W.N. Shaikh . MASc, Faculty of Engineering, Univ. of Regina. Molar Heat Capacities And Heats Of Mixing Of Aqueous Solutions Of 2-(Propylamino) Ethanol. November 2012.

4. Mohammad Marufuzzaman. MASc, Faculty of Engineering, Univ. of Regina. Solubility and Diffusivity of Carbon Dioxide, Ethane and Propane in Heavy Oil and its SARA Fractions. November 2010.

5. Mohammad Tuhinuzzaman. MASc, Faculty of Engineering, Univ. of Regina. The Role of Capillarity in the VAPEX Process. July 2006.

Undergraduate Student Supervision

1. Barret Rennie (May 2014 - Aug 2014). Evolutionary Techniques for the Exam Timetabling. NSERC USRA.

2. Tim Sample (April 2010 - Aug 2010). Extending Excel spreadsheet with CSPs. NSERC USRA.

3. Peter Dowdy (April 2010 - Aug 2010). Swimming the Polygon Soup: Improving D* Navigation Outcomes for Wheeled Sonar Robots . NSERC USRA.

4. Xie Qi (Jan - April 2008). An OCL-Based GUI Toolkit for solving CSPs and Temporal CSPs.
5. Mike Berger(Sept - Dec 2006). Multiple Robot Motion Planning.
6. Wu Qiong(May - Aug 2006). Multiple Robot Motion Planning.
7. Kevin Bedel(May - Sept 2005). Multiple Robot Motion Planning. NSERC USRA.
8. Shanny Lu(Sept 2004 - April 2005). Robot Motion Planning.
9. Vili Bogdan(May 2004 - Aug 2004). Robot Motion Planning. NSERC USRA.
10. Ricky Sum(May 2004 - Aug 2004). Robot Motion Planning. NSERC USRA.

11. Jonathan Yip(April 2001 - Aug 2002). Solving Temporal Constraints in Dynamic Environment. NSERC USRA, George Ellis.
12. Mike Closson(April 2001 - Aug 2002). Temporal Constraint Problems in CLP and CSP. NSERC USRA.
13. Gage Klein(April 2001 - Aug 2001). Using Neural Networks for Temporal CSPs. Chinook RSA, George Ellis.
14. Corrine Cheng(Jan 2002 - Aug 2002). Using Genetic Algorithms for Temporal Constraints.
15. Ye Wang(April 2002 - Dec 2002). Dynamic Path Consistency for Temporal Constraints. Chinook RSA, George Ellis.
16. Jonathan Kovacs(Jan 2001 - April 2001). Constraint Logic Programming for Temporal Constraints.
17. Angela Mlynarski(Sept 2001 - April 2002). Robot Motion Planning under Temporal Constraints.
18. Jeffrey Jacober(Sept 2001 - Dec 2001). GUI for Solving Temporal Constraints.