As specified in the table below, since 1988 25 students have received the M.Sc. degree at McMaster under my supervision. Of these, 19 have graduated from the research M.Sc. programme in Computer Science established in 1997, including four cosupervised by Professor Franya Franek, four others by Professor Pat Ryan. All 19 of these students worked in the area of string algorithms, and the thesis work of all but one has led to research papers published in refereed international journals or refereed conference proceedings.

In December 2007 my first Ph.D. student, Simon Puglisi, graduated from Curtin University of Technology (cosupervised with Andrew Turpin); a month later, in January 2008, my second Ph.D student, Mohammad Sohel Rahman (cosupervised with Costas Iliopoulos), graduated from King's College London. In 2009 two more Ph.D. students, Shu Wang and Munina Yusufu, graduated from the Computer Science programme at McMaster.

I am currently cosupervising Ph.D. students Chalita Hoopsuwan (joint with Maxime Crochemore) and Michalis Christou (joint with Costas Iliopoulos) in the Department of Informatics, King's College London, as well as M.Sc. students Hamid Mohamadi (joint with G. Brian Golding and Lucian Ilie) and Robert Fuller (joint with Professor Franek) at McMaster.

For the year July 2002 - July 2003 Professor Franek and I also supervised post-doctoral fellow Jan Holub from the Prague Technical University. Dr. Holub's tenure was funded by a NATO fellowship.

All current students at McMaster are members of the Algorithms Research Group.

Here is the complete list of graduate students who so far have graduated under my supervision, including current employment for some of them (* indicates Ph.D.):

2010  Jenya Kopylov      Repetitions in Strings: Current Algorithms    Ph.D. student (Lille)
                         & the Combinatorics of Future Ones
2009  Shu Wang*          Indeterminate Strings                         IBM
2009  Munina Yusufu*     Efficient Computation of String Regularities  Assoc. Professor (China)
2009  Anisa Al-Hafeedh   Using Suffix Arrays for LZ Compression        Lecturer, University of Oman
2008  Sohel Rahman*      Fast & Efficient Algorithms on Strings        Asst. Professor (Bangladesh)
2007  Simon Puglisi*     Strings, Suffix Arrays & Periodicity          Post-Doctoral Fellow (King's College London)
2007  Gang Chen          Lempel-Ziv Factorization                      UPS (Burlington)
2006  Shu Wang           Pattern-Matching on Indeterminate Strings     Ph.D. student (McMaster)
2004  Kangmin Fan        Investigating Run-Maximal Strings             employed
2004  Xiaoyang Yu        New Suffix Array Algorithms                   employed
2002  Xiangdong Xiao     Computing Quasi Suffix Arrays 
2002  Chris Jennings     Linear-Time Fast Exact Pattern Matching       lecturer (Simon Fraser)
2001  Xin Chen           2D Matching for Image Similarity Retrieval    employed in California
2001  Jiandong Jiang     Frequency of Occurrence, Two-Pattern Strings  Microsoft (Seattle)
2001  Chi-Wei Wu         Algorithms for Polygon Similarity 
2001  Yudong Tang        Repeating Substrings in O(n) Space            employed in China
2001  Shudi Gao          New Properties of Borders & Covers of Strings IBM Toronto
2000  Weilin Lu          Repetitions in Two-Pattern Strings            IBM
2000  Lu Yang            Computing a k-Cover of a String               IBM Toronto
2000  Yu Sun             Consensus Strings under Hamming Distance      
1998  Yin Li             String Covering Algorithms                    IBM Toronto
1998  Bandula Dahanayake Repetitions in Strings
1998  Ayse Karaman	      Sturmian Strings                              Asst. Prof. (Isik University)
1994  Irene Zhong        Object-Oriented Course Administration System  DuPont Corporation
1993  Chris Cupido	      A System for Teaching Boolean Algebra
1993  Nick Werczak	      3D Engineering Graphics                       Waterfront International
1992  Hong Zhou 	      Engineering Graphics                          IBM Toronto
1992  Yan Xia    	      Graph Theory Toolkit System
1988  Shu-Shan Li	      Graph Perfect -- A Graph Editor