Antoine Deza

Professor and Canada Research Chair in Combinatorial Optimization
Associate Chair (Graduate)
Department of Computing and Software, McMaster University

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Current and former graduate students and post-doctotral fellows

Post-doctoral fellows (current and former)

• Vira Shendryk (2011 - 2012)
  current position: Associate Professor, Sumy State University, Ukraine
  
• Vincent Pilaud (2011)
  Fields Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow
  current position: CNRS researcher, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
• Oleksandr Romanko (2010 - 2012)
  MITACS Elevate Post-Doctoral Fellow at McMaster University and Algorithmics Inc
  current position: Research Analyst, IBM Business Analytics, Toronto
• Simon Schurr (2008 - 2010)
  current position: Actuarial Analyst, Manulife, Waterloo
• Yuriy Zinchenko (2005 - 2008)
  current position: Assistant Professor, University of Calgary
• Tamon Stephen (2004 - 2005)
  current position: Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University

Graduate students (current)

• Andrew Baker, Ph.D. (since 2008) -- OGSST and NSERC CGS-D recipient
• Jessie Liu, Ph.D. (since September 2009) -- QEII GSST recipient
• Mei Jiang, Ph.D. (since September 2009) -- QEII GSST and OGS recipient
• Hongfeng Liang, Ph.D. (since September 2010) -- QEII GSST recipient
• Adrien Thierry, Ph.D. (since September 2011)
• Michael Metel, Ph.D. (since September 2012)
• Guohong Rong, M.Sc. (since September 2009)
• ShengWei Shen, M.Sc. (since September 2010)
• Gary Chung, M.A.Sc. (since September 2011)
• Xiao Jiao Wang, M.Sc. (since September 2012)
• Hussam Fetyan, M.Eng. (since September 2012)
• Pauline Sarrabezolles, visiting M.Sc. (April - August 2012)

Graduate students (former)

• Feng Xie, Ph.D. (2007 - 2011) -- NSERC PGS-D, IBM TJ Watson internship (2008), Microsoft internship recipient (2010)
  current position: Microsoft USA
• William Hua, Ph.D. (2008 - 2011) -- NSERC CGS-D recipient
  current position: Software Engineer, Toronto
• Oleksandr Romanko, Ph.D. (2008 - 2010) -- MITACS Accelerate internship recipient (2008 and 2009)
  current position: Research Analyst, IBM Business Analytics, Toronto
• Voicu Chis, Ph.D. (2008 - 2009)
  current position: Ph.D. student at University of Waterloo
• Cathy Zhang, M.Sc Eng. (2009 - 2012)
  current position: IT consultant, Toronto
• Alvin Hsieh, M.Sc. (2008 - 2010)
  current position: Ph.D. student at McMaster University
• Mei Jiang, M.Sc. (2008 - 2009)
  current position: Ph.D. student at McMaster University
• Jessie Liu, M.Sc. (2007 - 2009)
  current position: Ph.D. student at McMaster University
• William Hua, M.Sc. (2007 - 2008) -- NSERC CGS-M recipient
  current position: Software Engineer, Toronto
• Jonathan Li, M.Sc. (2006 - 2008)
  current position: Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto
• Doron Pearl, M.Eng. (2006 - 2008)
  current position: Sonicbids, Boston
• Feng Xie, M.Sc. (2006 - 2007) -- OGS recipient
  current position: Microsoft USA
• Sandra Gregov, M.Sc. (2005 - 2007)
  current position: Universal Energy, Toronto
• Chris Dickson, M.Sc. (2005 - 2007)
  current position: Bedlam Games, Toronto
• Sui Huang, M.Sc. (2005 - 2007)
  current position: MRF Geosystems Corporation, Calgary
• Antoine Maghamez, Ph.D. (2005 - 2007)
  current position: Business Objects -- SAP, Toronto
• Gabriel Indik, M.Sc. (2004 - 2006)
  current position: IBM Toronto
• Tomohiko Mizutani, M.Sc. (2002 - 2003)
  current position: Assistant Professor, University of Kanagawa, Japan

Undergraduate research assistants (current and former)

• Grant Custard, CAE Scholarship in Computing and Software Engineering (summer 2010)
  current position: IBM Toronto
• Adrian Burlacu, McWork and CAS departmental scholarship (summer 2009 and 2010)
• Hanxing Zhang, visiting student (summer 2006)
  current position: University of Waterloo
• Fatemeh Farzin, NSERC USRA (summer 2006)
• Daniel Volante, UROP (summer 2006)
  current position: Master student at McMaster University
• William Hua, NSERC USRA (2005 - 2006)
  current position: Software Engineer, Toronto
• Huaying Li, UROP (2005 - 2006)
  current position: Master student at McMaster University
• Sui Huang, McWork (2004 - 2005)
  current position: MRF Geosystems Corporation, Calgary
• Tomohiko Mizutani, 4th year undergraduate (2000 - 2001)
  current position: Assistant Professor, University of Kanagawa, Japan
• Masanori Satoh, 4th year undergraduate (1999 - 2000)