Current students and research fellows

1. Jawad Ahmed, Master's Student (started in September 2024)
   Co-supervised by Dr. Sandra Zilles
   Topic: Learning causal effects using contrastive examples

Alumni

• Postdoctoral Fellows:
  
  
  1. Dr. Maryam Rostamigiv, Postdoctoral Research Fellow (January 2023 to January 2025)
     Co-supervised by Dr. Yves Lespérance
     Topic: Abstraction in reasoning about interaction with other agents and topics in causal reasoning
  
  
• Masters Students:
  
  
  1. MohammadHossein Karimian (September 2023 to December 2025)
     M.Sc. Thesis: Causal, Strategic, and Combined Responsibility Anticipation and Attribution in Situation Calculus Concurrent Game Structures
     ★Nominated for an academic award
  
  
  2. Asim Mehmood (September 2022 to December 2024)
     M.Sc. Thesis: Towards Root Cause Analysis in Hybrid Dynamic Domains
     ★Nominated for an academic award
  
  
• Undergraduate Researchers
  
  
  1. Shuyi Wang, Mitacs Globalink 2025 intern (June to September 2025)
     Project Report: The Role of Emotion in Rational Decision-Making: Philosophical and Computational Perspectives
     Last seen: Bachelor's student in the School of Philosophy at Shanxi University, China
  
  
  2. Aina Alyssa Binti Sazali, Mitacs Globalink 2025 intern (June to August 2025)
     Project Report: To What Extent Does the Use of AI Systems in Automating Legal Reasoning Satisfy the Legal Right to Explanation, and What Challenges Remain in Ensuring Transparency and Accountability?
     Last seen: Bachelor of Laws student at University of Manchester, United Kingdom
  
  
  3. Satyam Hitendra Singh, Undergraduate Research Assistant (May to August 2025)
     Topic: Logic-based cognitive robot programming
     Last seen: Bachelor's student at the University of Regina, Canada
  
  
  4. Hannah Louise Wilk, Mitacs Globalink 2024 intern (May to August 2024)
     Bachelor's Thesis (CS@RWTH Aachen University, Germany): Translation-Based Theorem Proving for First-Order Modal Logic
     (Primary supervisor: Dr. Gerhard Lakemeyer, advisor: Qihui Feng)
     ★The Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award (2025), Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms (VCLA), TU Wien, Austria
     Last seen: Master's student at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
  
  
  5. Jenna Ruth Mullan, Mitacs Globalink 2024 intern (June to August 2024)
     Project Report: Exploring the Role of Causation in Tort Law
     Last seen: Bachelor of Laws student at the Queen's University of Belfast, UK
  
  
  6. Mriana Yadkoo, Undergraduate Research Assistant (May to December 2023)
     Topic: Causation in non-deterministic situation calculus
     Last seen: Master's student at the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada

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