====== Student Supervision ======

**Current Students:** 

  * Behnam Asadi (MSc, Machine Learning, 09/19 - pres.)
  * Kasra Ahmadikamalabad (MSc, Machine Learning, 01/19 - pres.)
  * Soroush Sheikh Gargar (MSc, Machine Learning, 09/18 - pres.)
  * Zihuan Zhang (PhD, Machine Learning, 01/18 - pres.)
  * Yuping Lin (PhD, Machine Learning, 09/17 - pres.)
  * Chao Wang (PhD, Deep Learning for NLP, 09/16 - pres.)
    
**Alumni:** 

  * Joseph Sanu (MASc, Computer Vision, 09/17 - 04/20)
  * Sedtawut Watcharawittayakul (MSc, Deep Learning for NLP, 01/17 - 11/19)
  * Dekun Wu (MSc, Deep Learning for Question Answering, 09/16 - 04/19)
  * Feng Wei (PhD, Machine Learning, 05/16 - 04/19, dropped)
  * Hong Zhang (MASc, Machine Learning, 09/12 - 07/18, dropped) 
  * Mingbin Xu (MSc, Deep Learning for NLP, 1/15 - 09/17, currently the Apple Siri team)
  * Yuping Lin (PhD, Deep Learning for NLP, 1/15 - 08/17, current a PhD student at York)
  * Hengyue Pan (PhD, Computer Vision, 09/12 - 05/17, currently National University of Defence Technology, China) 
  * Quan Liu (Co-supervised PhD, Natural Language Processing, 06/14 - 07/17, currently iFlytek Research, China)
  * Shiliang Zhang (Co-supervised PhD, Deep Learning, 04/13 - 07/17, currently Alibaba Inc., China)
  * Rohollah Soltani (MSc, Deep Learning, 1/14 - 08/16, currently BUZZ Indexes, Toronto, Canada) 
  * Yangtuo (Tim) Peng (MSc, Machine Learning, 09/13 - 04/16, currently Amazon Inc)
  * Shaofei Xue (Co-supervised PhD, Deep Learning for Speech Recognition, 06/12 – 07/15, currently Alibaba Inc, China)
  * Ossama Abdel-Hamid (PhD, Deep Learning for Speech Recognition, 01/09 – 12/14, currently the Apple Siri team)
  * Pan Zhou (Co-supervised PhD, Deep Learning for Speech Recognition, 09/11 – 06/14, Currently iFlytek, China)
  * Yebo Bao (Co-supervised PhD, Deep Learning for Speech Recognition, 09/10 – 06/14, Currently iFlytek, China)
  * Pingzhao Hu (PhD, Machine Learning and Bioinformatics, 09/05–04/12, Currently Assistant Professor, University of Manitoba, Canada)
  * Dalei Wu (Post-Doc, Speech Recognition, 03/08–02/10, Currently ECE department, Concordia, Canada)
  * Poorya Seyed Jafari (MSc, Speech Processing, 09/07–04/10, Currently Evertz Microsystems Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada)
  * Cong Liu (Co-supervised PhD, Speech Recognition, 09/06 – 06/10, Currently iFlytek, China) 
  * Jun Du (Co-supervised PhD, Speech Recognition, 09/06 – 06/09, Currently Assistant Professor, University of Science and Technology of China)
  * Vladimir Magdin (MSc, Machine Learning, 01/08–09/09, Currently Neo Sensory, USA)  
  * Baojie Li (Post-Doc, Speech Recognition, 01/07–12/08, Currently Nuance Inc, Montreal, Canada)
  * Zhenyu Pan (MSc, Text Categorization, 01/07–12/08, Currently Tekelec, Canada)
  * Yan Yin (MSc, Speech Recognition, 01/06–04/08, Currently the speech group, Alibaba, China)
  * Xinwei Li (MSc, Speech Recognition, 01/04–08/05, Currently Nuances Inc, USA) 
  * Chaojun Liu (Post-Doc, Speech Recognition, 03/04–12/04, Currently Microsoft, USA)
  * Pengfei Liu (MSc, Language Processing, 03/03–08/04, Currently Oracle, Canada)
  * Qi Wang (MSc, Speech Recognition, 07/02–10/04, Currently Xiaomi Inc, Beijing, China)