Our Team

Directors, graduate and undergraduate students, frequent collaborators and alumni.

Directors

Michael Liut

Co-Director, CORE Lab; Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, University of Toronto Mississauga

Angela Zavaleta Bernuy

Co-Director, CORE Lab; Assistant Professor, Computing and Software, McMaster University

Current Graduate Students

Naaz Sibia

Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science, University of Toronto

Harry (Runlong) Ye

Ph.D. Student, Computer Science, University of Toronto

Amber Richardson

Ph.D. Student, Computing and Software, McMaster University

Barthélémy Matakon

Ph.D. Student, Université Toulouse, IRIT

Valeria Ramirez Osorio

M.Eng. Student, McMaster University

Zezhu (Sam) Yu

M.Eng. Student, McMaster University

Deluckshan Murugesu

M.Eng. Student, McMaster University

Adam Kolodziejczak

M.Eng. Student, McMaster University

Current Undergraduate Students

Jessica Wen

Undergraduate Researcher, University of Toronto Mississauga

Uzima Malik

Undergraduate Student, University of Toronto Mississauga

Caroline Pechenik

Undergraduate Student, University of Toronto Mississauga

Emmanuel Deza

Undergraduate Student, University of Toronto

Kelvin Leung

Undergraduate Student, University of Toronto

Jingcheng Liang

Undergraduate Student, University of Toronto Mississauga

Najwa Ibrahimi

Undergraduate Student, University of Toronto Mississauga

Aayush Patel

Undergraduate Student, University of Toronto Mississauga

Lukas Oreopoulos

Undergraduate Student, University of Toronto

Zain Mustafa

Undergraduate Researcher, University of Toronto Mississauga

Chenhe Wu

Undergraduate Researcher, McMaster University

Jaiden Baynes

Undergraduate Researcher, McMaster University

Khayla Salim

Undergraduate Student, Computer Science, McMaster University

Ana Mayer

Undergraduate Student, University of Toronto Mississauga

Hongming Mei

Undergraduate Student, University of Toronto

Zehao Fan

Undergraduate Student, University of Toronto Mississauga

Kaiden Rai

Undergraduate Student, University of Toronto Mississauga

Frequent Collaborators

Faculty/Industry Partners

Andrew Petersen

Professor, Teaching Stream, University of Toronto Mississauga

Lisa Zhang

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Computer Science, University of Toronto Mississauga

Bogdan Simion

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream; Associate Chair, Computer Science, University of Toronto Mississauga

Tingting Zhu

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream; Geospatial Data Science Program Director & Advisor, University of Toronto Mississauga

Andi Bergen

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Computer Science, University of Toronto Mississauga

Brian Harrington

Professor, Teaching Stream, University of Toronto Scarborough

Anastasiia Birillo

Head of Education Research, JetBrains

Philip Oreopoulos

Professor, Economics and Public Policy, University of Toronto

Christopher Eaton

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream; Associate Director, Research, ISUP, University of Toronto Mississauga

Carolina Nobre

Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of Toronto

Nihal Haque

Chief Medical Information Officer and Geriatrician, Scarborough Health Network; Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

Nathan Taback

Professor, Teaching Stream; Associate Chair, Undergraduate; Special Advisor to the Dean, University of Toronto

Frantisek Franek

Professor Emeritus, McMaster University

Carlos Aníbal Suárez

Professor, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL), Ecuador

Nan Messe

Assistant Professor, Université Toulouse–Jean Jaurès; Researcher, IRIT

Oscar Karnalim

Vice Rector I, Academic and Research; Associate Professor, Maranatha Christian University

Juho Leinonen

Assistant Professor, Aalto University

Paul Denny

Professor, Computer Science, University of Auckland

Viktoria Pammer-Schindler

Associate Professor; Deputy Head, Human-Centred Computing, Graz University of Technology

Rita Garcia

Adjunct Research Fellow, Victoria University of Wellington

John Stamper

Associate Professor; Director, METALS, Carnegie Mellon University

Alexander Steinmaurer

Postdoctoral Researcher; Program Coordinator, IT:U

Paul Vrbik

Senior Lecturer, University of Queensland

Students

Ruiwei Xiao

Ph.D. Student, Human-Computer Interaction, Carnegie Mellon University

Sebastian Gürtl

Ph.D. Student, Graz University of Technology

Yuri Noviello

Ph.D. Candidate, Delft University of Technology

Afek Amiri

Ph.D. Student, Université Toulouse, IRIT

Yuvaansh Kapila

Student Developer; External Collaborator, CORE Lab

Software Developers

Marko Choi

Software Developer, CORE Lab

Rhett Amin

Software Developer, CORE Lab

Josh Barkovic

Software Developer, CORE Lab

Alumni

Graduate Alumni

Xiaojun Ling

Former M.Sc. Student (External Thesis Advisor), CORE Lab

Ilya Musabirov

Former Ph.D. Student, CORE Lab

Now Assistant Professor at UBC

Suqing Liu

Former M.Eng. Student, CORE Lab

Now at Meta

Visiting Research Alumni

Matías Piña Aguilera

Former Visiting Researcher (ELAP Scholar), CORE Lab

Now Creative Technologist at Google

Boushra Almazroua

Former Visiting Researcher (DSI SUDS Scholar), CORE Lab

Ph.D. Student at King's College London

Undergraduate Alumni

Khushi Malik

Former Undergraduate Researcher, CORE Lab

Now a Master’s student in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto

Ali Syed Raza

Former Undergraduate Researcher (NSERC USRA), CORE Lab

Now Senior Software Engineer (CV & AI/ML) at AMD

Muniya Fallah

Former Undergraduate Researcher, CORE Lab

Nicholas Ching

Former Undergraduate Researcher, CORE Lab

Now Embedded Software Engineering Intern at Cisco

Ido Ben Haim

Former Undergraduate Researcher, CORE Lab

Now Machine Learning R&D Engineer at Exhilarare

Zeling (Zoey) Zhang

Former Undergraduate Researcher, CORE Lab

Now M.Eng at U of T

Aaditya Dhingra

Former Undergraduate Student, CORE Lab

Now Software Engineer at Mozilla

Akhil Choraria

Former Undergraduate Student, CORE Lab

Franco Ortiz

Former Undergraduate Researcher, CORE Lab

Now a Master Student in France

Maksym Woychyshyn

Former Undergraduate Researcher, CORE Lab

Stephen Clark

Former Undergraduate Researcher, CORE Lab

Yashika Jain

Former Undergraduate Student, CORE Lab

Yousef Bulbulia

Former Undergraduate Student, CORE Lab

Staff Alumni

Matt Wittmann

Former Software Developer, CORE Lab