Current Graduate Students

Post-Doctoral Fellows

• Dan Vogel (co-supervised with C. Kaplan and W. Cowan)

Ph.D. Students

• Jaime Ruiz
• Krzysztof Pietroszek
• Leila Chinae
• Mazen Melibari (co-supervised with P. Poupart)
• Victor Cheung (co-supervised with S. Scott)

M.Sc. Students

• Earl Friedberg
• Matei Negulescu
• Alec Azad

Past Graduate Students

Waterloo

Post-Doctoral Fellows

• Hannah Marston
• Andrea Bunt

Ph.D. students

• Andrew Seniuk

M.Math students

• Ryan Stedman
• Christine Szentgyorgyi (Co-supervised with M. Terry)
• Janna-Lynn Weber (Co-supervised with D. Berry)

SFSU

• Emory Al-Imam (SFSU)
• Nikko Cheng (M.Sc.)
• John Roberts (M.Sc.)
• Ken Withee (M.Sc.)
• Keith Deming (M.Sc.)
• Kevin Pan (M.Sc.)
• Azin Moali (M.Sc.)
• Chunyung Fei (M.Sc.)
• Ivan Ho (M.Sc.)
• Amy Ichnowski (M.Sc.)
• Shahid Khatri (M.Sc.)
• Fan Fu (M.Sc.)
• Luping May (M.Sc. Stanford)
• Scott Erickson (Inactive)
• Renaldo Blocker (Inactive)
• Witya Suwannikinthorn (Inactive)

Prospective Students

I am recruiting graduate students. My research projects all involve graduate students as active participants. If you are interested in working with me, take a moment to examine the projects I'm working on. You can also contact me regarding graduate work, preferably by email. It is always helpful to chat with prospective supervisors. It ensures that I know your application is coming, and that you know something about me and how I interact with students. Please note, however, that I will not be able to accept you through informal channels. If you are seriously interested in graduate work at Waterloo in the HCI group, please apply through formal Waterloo channels.

Your supervisor is one of the most important graduate study decisions you will make. Each faculty member has a unique supervisory style, and each research lab (typically comprised of 2 - 4 research faculty at Waterloo) has a unique work practice. I am currently a member of two research groups: the HCI lab, and the MathBrush project.

The HCI Lab at Waterloo is a highly collaborative environment. Graduate students in HCI have office space in the HCI lab, and we encourage students to discuss projects, collaborate on solutions, and interact with each other around their research ideas. This collaborative environment extends to faculty. You will notice many of the HCI Lab research papers are co-authored by my colleague, Michael Terry, and me. The benefits of this collaborative environment between students and faculty are flexibility in research direction, better support in research execution, and multiple perspectives on framing research for publication. To support this collaborative environment, students are expected to work on campus for much of their graduate studies. In the HCI Lab, your contribution to others' research is an important component of your education.

One additional characteristic of the HCI Lab at Waterloo is its heterogeneous mix of projects. Students in HCI at Waterloo are free to pursue projects of interest to them, and, as long as those projects align with the broad field of HCI, there are few restrictions placed on the students. This has some benefits for students who come to Waterloo, including flexibility to find projects of interest to them and freedom to design, in collaboration with their supervisor, the direction those projects will take. While we do provide this freedom, we also have many potential projects that students can work on.

The typical first semester for new graduate students is to join our group, complete graduate coursework, and become involved in some early graduate research, perhaps a small, focused project for publication. Sometimes these projects expand into thesis research, and sometimes students find another project for their thesis work. However, this early involvement in research gives new students a chance to "get their feet wet", to immerse themselves gradually into their graduate studies.

The MathBrush group is tightly focused research project, studying the design and implementation of algorithms to recognize and interact with handwritten mathematical formulae on tablet computers. Students involved in this project will work on problems defined by the overall problem domain. For more information on the MathBrush project, visit its homepage.